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Loved this chapter, great design, well written.

https://duckdb.org/2024/05/03/vector-similarity-search-vss

Pandas - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/

I found "Writing Without Bullshit" helpful. https://withoutbullshit.com/book

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Wrote 3 technical books [1] with asciidoctor, love it! Simple format, easy to include code, builds PDF, ePUB, mobi ...

[1] https://gumroad.com/tebeka

Wrote too (small) books so far - Go Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT) - Python Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT)

Working on the 3rd ...

No serizalization is safe

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybu... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb - ...

The Knowledge Project https://fs.blog/the-knowledge-project/

I heard good things about http://vim.spf13.com/

Peter Norvig's Spell Checker http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

A lot of other code he writes as well.

One way to network is to go to job interviews. Be open about the fact that you're mostly interested in contracting and maybe you'll consider joining after a time (which is true in my case - there's a lot of overhead in contracting).

People forget that doing backward breaking changes take a while. Python 3 was released at the end of 2008, 2 years after Java 6. How many systems you know still run on Java 5?

Two things: 1. IMO sup (http://supmua.org/) is more mature and does about the same. However it's interface is a curses based one which is a plus and a minus. 2. Why not use an existing search products (like xapian)?

If you have more ways to improve your I/O - please share :)

Instead of managing your own grid, you can use saucelabs.com

The problem is with the process, people will forget. You probably need to automate this.

So you end up committing untested code? (since you did test the whole change, not just part of it).

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Also note that _ has a meaning in the Python REPL - it's the value of the last expression.

Just installed beta1. Opened terminal and then:

    $ python --version
    Python 2.7.3

Yet again, instead of trying to fix the existing, someone writes yet another library.

I did an upgrade from 11.10 to the 12.04 beta. Seems to work fine.

This is very easily done with a mesh of two APIs, see https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/pythonwise/src/tip/timeat

python -m json.tool /path/to/file.json

Thanks, updated the code to use keyword arguments only.

You can either use mock(obj, {'x': 1, 'y': 2}) or mock(obj, 'x', 1, 'y', 2). I thought it'll be nice to provide both options, but you might be right and using just a dict of mocks is more Pythonic.

How does it differ from Amazon's Mechanical Turk?

Proper lexical scoping in Python.

Great idea, now I just need to learn some RoR ...

Seriously, this is something that can have the same effect on application as the web had on publishing. "Just write it and place it out there ...".

Same here. Making my noon reading of HN pretty annoying. (Read front page, hit more, get expired, go back, reload, hit more ...)