Who knows I'm shopping for a car:
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Youtube
Twitter
Phone App Stores
Who Doesn't
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FaceBook - ads disabled
Amazon - (they don't care?)
GM's website. No login option(??!!)
Toyota's website. Same, no login option
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Society doesn't know what to call "$#!+ty driver alerts"
- Toytota - "eco" when off, means "you are wasting gas with jackrabbit starts"
- Chevy Malibu - "teen driver" means "you are f'ning dangerous on the road, man"
But for webforms: "validation", which means u suck at typing
So much car software to evaluate when car shopping:
- The collision avoidance system
- The infotainment system
- The hidden embedded (aka check-engine-light)
- Finance Corp phone app
- Owner phone app
- OnStar-like services
Generic used car beats both Chevy Malibu & Toyota Camry. Malibu gets 45% of opinionated vote, which is 99% higher than what my visual car count on the road reflects. (I see maybe 1 Malibu per day vs I-lose-track Camries) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1021369139917742082
I can pick from so many cars, but what I really want to do is finance $36K of urban tram, light rail, high speed heavy passenger rail & high frequency connector buses.
Where the heck can I buy that?
In the land of nitwits math-nitwits, the dude with one pandas script is king. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1023549666066132992
Just discovered car leasing...this brings joy to my software developer heart- more rules & complications than an airline points program. The system is gameable, you vs the manufacturer & in lease assumptions you vs the last lessee. It is a game you can't win w/o a spreadsheet
Why are car so expensive? We refuse to buy 1950 tech. Ford F-150's today are like sci-fi. & incomes didn't increase-much. Want to choose a low feature car? The cheapest truck is a $20K sci-fi marvel. U can have any truck as long as it's awesome & cost $$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmIWwZVE7wc
Fake review on Amazon threaten Amazon's whole business models- categories like digital watches are flooded with fake reviews. Check FakeSpot, e.g.
https://www.fakespot.com/product/willful-fitness-tracker-with-heart-rate-monitor-fitness-watch-activity-tracker-ip67-waterproof-slim-smart-band-with-step-calorie-counter-14-sports-mode-sleep-monitor-pedometer-for-kids-women-men-7b6d9ffb-e67d-4e99-aeb3-ae8f9c32e9b5
#git pre-commit and pre-push git hooks are easier that I tough and hand UNLESS they change your source tree. Then you have to write code to re-"git add" any files that were formatted or modified.
The thing most analogous to love is a logging library. This is why dev aren't getting dates. https://x.com/CodeWisdom/status/1022475125956980736
META: The secret to making a tweet with 40K retweets is to have a SoundCloud page.
And dammit, if the white house isn't pushing it way into my mind on every decision, I should buy a car
A Chevy Malibu is an Opal, but made in the US. So if you liked that rental car you had on your vacation in Europe, you'd like the Malibu. Funny thing is, GM went out of their way to avoid becoming 'that rental car' & my mental model is 'that euro rental car'
If you sign up for any service that creates branches & PRs for your app (I'm looking at you http://pyup.io) then you need to add this to .travis.yml
branches:
only:
- master
Travis is getting personal. My career is doing fine, thank you. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1021858690624888833/photo/1
Do I exagerate? Yes, I rounded down to the nearest hundred. This is the worst new user experience of any similar service https://x.com/mistersql/status/1021813177221300224
So I tryout http://pyup.io on 3 repos
- It opens 200+ pull requests
- Creates 200+ branches
- Triggers 200+ broken builds on travis
- Sends me 200+ emails
All to tell me 600 times that all version of pylint except 1 are f'ked up so royally that no upgrade is possible
os.path.expanduser will make you fat
#Python
You should go to University of Akron. When people see U of Akron on my resume, they know I've sterling character and I am perfectly honest. Who'd lie about going to University of Akron?
Also, an immortal Corolla & a (dunno, lemony) Malibu will rust to dust before I drive them even 100,000 miles, a distance even a mediocre car can reach. Also the 5 year repair cost curve for Japanese & US cars isn't so different to be a deciding factor. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1021369139917742082
Chevy Malibu just doesn't got the mindshare of Corolla. The self-braking, self-parking, stay-in-lane stuff is all pure sci-fi. Still not sure what car I'll get but it isn't going to be one of the pre-2016 cars w/o CMBS. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1021369139917742082
7/23/2018 ERROR: Please check error log for error. https://x.com/kfelichko/status/1021419462740922368
If you are a metro rider & need a car for short trips & occasional vacationing to Toronto -ie<4000miles a year,
- fam of 4
- pro-environment
Doing a pip freeze/pipenv lock of everything but the dev dependency is too hard. Seems like the only option is to copy source to tmp, create a new venv, install non-dev deps, freeze or lock, delete tmp.
And now all your test ran on what is possibly a different set of packages.
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I still think we should update the lotto so if you win, you get health insurance, a house, a car and college tuition for 4 years-- in kind, not cash which the winners may or may not know what to do with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PSWTDhHGt4
Python "vulture" just found a few bugs that no other linter/unit test could:
https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture
I now recommend it.
When they said no "coordination" what they meant was сотрудничество, but no coordination. https://x.com/torshin_ru/status/698742761160368128
Superseded by RAM halver, aka Chrome. https://twitter.com/kevinbruce/status/1020332632645808128
Open office is passe. The single-chair office plan is it- everyone sits in the lap of the one person with a chair.
- The money saved on chairs is great.
- Staff learn their place in the org (you can physically see who is sitting on who's lap)
- No need for phone or email https://x.com/PaulTuraew/status/1019960533070565377
How many ways to do the __version__ string? 5.6 million ways. Real code, such a rich source of edge cases.
https://github.com/search?l=Python&q=__version__++extension%3A.py&type=Code
And some large % of people put the python version here. Sigh.
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reading black swan & how "measures-of-central-tendency" thinking fails when confronted by exponential distributions. Do we need to switch to median or do we just need a different set of metrics (like Gini co-efficient?)
stress testing library:
stress_test.py
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def request_call_with_ex():
...
def quit_job():
...
def give_away_everything_on_craigs_list()
...
def call_corporate_help_desk()
...
Dad Jokes Anon
A: "Hello, I can't stop making obvious jokes. I'm despondent."
ALL: "Hello, Despondent. I'm Dad."
Halloween costume idea: automatic library build version. It goes bump in the night.
shoot, stress tested my version incrementor & now I remember that
- packages can have multiple modules, each with their own version
- sub modules could have versions, sometimes do
- modules can be a single file (with I guess a __version__= "1.2.3")
so many edge cases
#python
Looks like the ERD for every enterprise database ever https://x.com/internetrebecca/status/1019296099725725702
Package repositories are vulnerable to trashing. Even with no coordinated attacks, year after year of people uploading poop and it will get more and more unsearchable.
why does pypi let people push packages like this?
def print_lol(the_list,level)
for each_item in the_list
if isinstance(each_item,list)
print_lol(each_item,level + 1)
else
for tab_step in range(level)
print "\t",
print each_item
correct 3.6 code
def print_lol(the_list,level):
for each_item in the_list:
if isinstance(each_item,list):
print_lol(each_item,level + 1)
else:
for tab_step in range(level):
print("\t",end="")
print(each_item)
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META/IDEA: utility to delete your quoted retweets when the underlying tweet disappears.