The first thing I did at Recurse was spend a couple weeks trying to get comfortable with writing functionally and recursively in Scheme.
One of the fun things about the book The Little Schemer is it has concise thought-provoking definitions. Like this one:
How is a [natural] number defined? It …
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Writing better tests is a lifelong pursuit, apparently.
One thing I've been noticing lately, especially while doing code reviews, is that we are usually thinking about how do I know the code worked.
Great! But we are usually not thinking ahead about what am I going to do when the …
If you want to keep your customers happy, one foundation that your product process needs is a shared understanding across your entire organization around at what stage of development can you commit to a release date.
When sales is involved, this also translates to: at what point can the sales …
Here's a quick hack to help when you're lost in a too-large Python inheritance tree. What class provides the most specific implementation of a method or attribute?
def find(cls, name):
for sup in cls.mro():
if name in sup.__dict__:
return sup.__name__
return None
def find_all_vars(cls):
for …Thread locals are an interesting idea: a way to give each thread its own storage, useful for global state that you don't want to share between threads.
The obvious caveat is that threadlocals are still effectively global (for the current thread), and like all global state, should be treated with …