Month: October 2013
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OWL Broken
Doh! Actually OWL is very broken. Will be posting fix shortly. Will keep you informed.
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Monads in Python (Again)
Dustin Getz provides one of the best “Monads for idiot Python programmers” explanations I’ve seen. Excellent! I think I almost do understand this one.
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Pissed With Ubuntu
Seriously, it was just a simple upgrade. How hard should that have been? Instead it crashed in the middle. When I rebooted it told me my disk was broken. I found some instructions to fix the problem online. It ran these for a while, fixing some packages before telling me my package manager was too…
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OWL Fix
There’s a big fix for OWL today. There were some mysterious times when pages that I thought I was changing were getting reverted. I thought originally that this was a glitch from me btsync-ing between my laptop and tablet. Or maybe my attempts at doing background synchronization between the browser localStorage and the server were…
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Blame the Tools for Thought
Giles Bowkett : This is, in my opinion, the strongest argument for seeing Unix and basic coding skills as fundamental required literacy today. As prostheses for memory and identity, computers are too useful not to use, but if you don’t know how to craft your own code which gives you a UX which matches the…