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I bet it's no more than ten minutes on a busy day, between 6:30 and 7:30, between coffee and thinking about work. Meditation is hard when you have something to do and must do it. M…

It was quite common for the Linux kernel to panic, 15 years or so ago. I bet that even now it is much easier to make Linux panic than Darwin. HN became way too passive-aggressive i…

A very nice reminder that there's no such thing as code without bugs.

Except it is, because your code doesn't work: > [10, 1, 5, 1, 10, 10, 1, 5, 5, 5, 10].sort(byNum) > [10, 10, 5, 1, 10, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 10] The right way is > function byNum(a, b) { …

The same can be done with Python lambdas: >>> ZERO = lambda f: lambda x: x >>> FIVE = lambda f: lambda x: f(f(f(f(f(x))))) >>> to_int = lambda f: f(lambda x: x+1)(0) ... etc.

You can make it without any 'weaknesses' in Python: collection = Transaction.search( order_id__starts_with='a2d', customer_website__ends_with='.com', billing__first_name__exact='Jo…