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A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency

by karlcow & 1 other

This tutorial is a practical exploration of using Python coroutines (extended generators) for solving problems in data processing, event handling, and concurrent programming. The material starts off with generators and builds to writing a complete multitasking environment that can run thousands of concurrent tasks without using threads or using code based on event-driven callbacks (i.e., the "reactor" model)

January 2012

Consider defeat …

by Takwann
“In Iaido we always win against enemies” performing a kata slowly or quickly, result is the same … We win. Of course we are alone fighting against imaginary opponents and the scenario (Riai) says we win. How could we loose ? I did not deeply thought about this but writing it down suddenly gave me a strange feeling. Why should we be so sure (reassured) of the encounter result if we really live the kata, if we really live in the moment ?

Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

by karlcow

I’m tempted to just turn comments off, they certainly attract more spam than good stuff. I think they make sense if you already have a huge readership, otherwise other channels seem better. I kind of like the olden days, where you’d see a blog post and respond by writing your own blog post linking to the former.

December 2011

War Stories: Why Fight?

by Takwann
Throughout history, as seen in fiction and non-fiction writing, the reasons for fighting are often much simpler than the wars being fought. Country, family, friends, self-preservation are often the reasons. The following are excerpts from different books and papers, on why different people/groups have fought through the years.

A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency

by greut & 1 other

This tutorial is a practical exploration of using Python coroutines (extended generators) for solving problems in data processing, event handling, and concurrent programming. The material starts off with generators and builds to writing a complete multitasking environment that can run thousands of concurrent tasks without using threads or using code based on event-driven callbacks (i.e., the "reactor" model)

November 2011

Concurrence — Concurrence Framework v0.3.1 documentation

by jpcaruana
Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python. It takes a Lightweight-tasks-with-message-passing approach to concurrency. The goal of Concurrence is to provide an easier programming model for writing high performance network applications than existing solutions (Multi-threading, Twisted, asyncore etc). Concurrence uses Lightweight tasks in combination with libevent to expose a high-level synchronous API to low-level asynchronous IO.

Whatfettle - Paul Downey (psd)

by karlcow

For my money any tool or Web framework worth writing your code inside out for should fire up a dentist's drill, slap you around the face and repeatedly ask IS IT SAFE? until it GET's a straight answer.

Oscillatory Thoughts: A neuroscientist walks into a startup...

by karlcow

I'm working as their computational scientist (aka, "data pornographer") working on internal tools and analytics as well as writing a public-facing blog. Our goal is to use our historical data to more accurately estimate and reduce pick-up times.

DATA PORNOGRAPHER

Lynx would not be impressed – on semantics and HTML | Christian Heilmann

by karlcow & 1 other

Semantics are like wonderful prose. You use them to deliver an enjoyable product. People are not celebrated for writing books. They are celebrated for what they filled them with. If we keep putting things on the web that have structure and get better on more sophisticated display products we are building for the future. If we point fingers at others doing it wrong we waste our time.

Why GitHub Hacks on Side Projects

by karlcow

GitHub employees have gotten very good at writing irrelevant code.

the importance of being part of something

Story Fanatic

by Foolster41
Good articles on writing, and specifically screenplay writing, referencing the work of Joseph Cambell.

Where is my user? Part 2, Browser Geolocation | Neogeo ramblings with a Python twist

by karlcow

But the W3C saw, or was made to see, the writing on the wall and built a set of standard APIs into HTML5 for just this case and most modern browsers have picked it up. The draft for the spec is http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html if you want to read it through or need further info. The API is pretty marvelously simple. This implementation changes the URL to return latitude and longitude when they are available, which we can use in our Django view. Plus, the same code works on mobile devices (at least the iOS ones I carry) with no changes.

September 2011

Stories Unbound

by gregg
'Stories Unbound' is the world's first social-media platform for writing and reading stories, brought to you in conjunction with those nice peeps at Melbourne Writers Festival. Our free app lets you read, write and geotag stories. You can write stories about whatever you like, whenever youlike and wherever you like and then get them instantly published to our unique, 'Stories Unbound' Map, facebook and twitter.

Tiny Letter

by Spone & 1 other
It's the easiest way to start writing your own email newsletter. Just tell people to subscribe, then write whatever you want, whenever you want, and we'll send it out. All for free!

August 2011

Writing CSS For Others

by 84GHz
we get into our little bubbles, writing CSS (as amazing as it may be) with only ourselves in mind. How many times have you inherited a CSS file that’s made you say “WTF” at least a dozen times?

making games, making webs.: Let's make a shit JavaScript interpreter! Part one.

by karlcow

Teaching something is a great way to learn. Also writing things on my blog always gets good 'comments', hints, tips, plenty of heart, and outright HATE from people. All useful and entertaining :)

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node - O'Reilly Media

by karlcow

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node shows how to build stable, flexible Web APIs using JavaScript on both client and server. Its practical examples demonstrate best practices for writing and maintaining Web APIs and provide clear coverage of general principles of hypermedia that appeal to Web architects.

July 2011

George R.R. Martin on Sex, Fantasy, and 'A Dance With Dragons' - Rachael Brown - Entertainment - The Atlantic

by bouilloire (via)

"I think some fans are hoping we'll end up with eight books. Well, it's grown in the past—I'm not going to say those fans are wrong. When I started out, it was a trilogy. Back in 1994 when I sold this, it was going to be A Game of Thrones, A Dance with Dragons, The Winds of Winter—three books. But that scheme went out the window before I'd even finished the first book. I think it was Tolkien who said when he was writing The Lord of the Rings, "The tale grew in the telling."

Ça va en faire de la page au final

Avengers Prime

by alamat & 1 other (via)
AVENGERS PRIME collects issues #1-5 of this indulgence of a mini-series, featuring Brian Michael Bendis’ writing and Alan Davis’ predictably dynamic illustrations. Not that this was a story that needed telling. Rather, AVENGERS PRIME – or, as I like to call it, the big apology adventure – is pretty much Bendis at his most egregious utilizing the decompression style. At the end of this story, what crucial plot points are served, really, other than these three primary Avengers getting over their beef? Forward, the Brightest Day or Heroic Age or whatever.

June 2011

LightScythe - The Mechatronics Guy

by karlcow

The LightScythe is a device for writing text and images frozen in midair.

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