Alex Ainslie

"Wrong! The errors that underestimate the effects don’t get published. They’re probably also more apt to get debugged — if your code is producing results you don’t like, you’re going to make absolutely sure it’s right, but you’re much less likely to scrutinize code that seems to be working (from your perspective) fine."

programming, science, and epistemology « the pulchrifex papers

1 week ago on March 3rd, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

"The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they’ve ever done. Their reputation with programmers used to be great. It used to be the most common complaint you heard about Apple was that their fans admired them too uncritically. The App Store has changed that. Now a lot of programmers have started to see Apple as evil."

Paul Graham

1 month ago on February 5th, 2010 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

namebench

“It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google.”

2 months ago on January 5th, 2010 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

Python Reading UTF-8 Files

import codecs
fileObj = codecs.open( "someFile", "r", "utf-8" )
u = fileObj.read() # Returns a Unicode string from the UTF-8 bytes in the file

2 months ago on December 11th, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

Python Unix Time to Datetime Conversion


>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1172969203.1)
datetime.datetime(2007, 3, 4, 0, 46, 43, 100000)

datetime(year, month, day, hour, min, second, microsecond, tzinfo)

3 months ago on December 11th, 2009 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

Processing in Eclipse

“This tutorial assumes you already have Java and Processing installed on your computer. This is also not an Eclipse tutorial, but just covers the basics to get you up and running with Processing in Eclipse.”

3 months ago on December 7th, 2009 at 2:24 pm | Permalink

Add all missing tags. Why yes I do believe I will.

3 months ago on December 7th, 2009 at 9:04 am | Permalink

tail [ +-[number][lbcr] ] [file]

3 months ago on November 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

AI Confusion in Duffield with Nic

3 months ago on November 21st, 2009 at 12:59 am | Permalink

.bashrc & OS X

Griffin writes: “just a quick tip for those on Macs who use bash. By default, your .bashrc file will not be source’ed when you open up a new terminal. To change that, add this to your .profile file: “

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

4 months ago on November 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm | Permalink