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asicsp

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About asicsp

Author of several programming books and counting. Addicted to reading fantasy books.

https://github.com/learnbyexample

https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/

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    Comment #45833399

    There's a wiki page with links to plenty of resources: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap

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    Comment #45289859

    I use xfce because it is stable, simple and lightweight. Perhaps I don't know what I'm missing but I'm very happy with it.

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    Comment #44970490

    See also this quiz: https://fstrings.wtf/

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    Comment #44707864

    This month I release an updated version of my "Practice Python Projects" book: https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/ Next, I'm working on a TUI app (using Text…

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    Comment #44644410

    > the syntax for nested list comprehensions has a rather... incomprehensible order I remember reading a blog post pointing out that the for-loop order stays the same between compre…

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    Comment #44367334

    Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284291 (117 points | 8 days ago | 28 comments) Seems like the link changed, and thus not caught by the dupe detector.

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    Comment #44132807

    I wrote interactive TUI apps with exercises for Linux CLI tools, coreutils, grep, sed and awk: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps

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    Comment #44132785

    See also this open source version inspired by that site: https://github.com/daquino94/linux-path

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    Comment #43946176

    Previous discussion with patterns in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974534

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    Comment #43734046

    See also: "Where Vim Came From" https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.htm... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696023 (420 points | Aug 6, 2018 …

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    Comment #43543139

    This might help: https://pythonspeed.com/datascience/

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    Comment #43530534

    I'm continuing to update my already published ebooks. Apart from catching up to new software versions, it also helps to address typos and other issues found by my readers. Last wee…

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    Comment #43493684

    A very different book, but I loved reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" [0] as well by the same author. [0] which used footnotes to great effect

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    See also: * https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/ * https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/life-of-a-container/