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The Best Article on Python Decorators

Here it is.

Finding Python’s package directories

Finding Python’s package directories: python -c ‘import sys, pprint; pprint.pprint(sys.path)’ (via djangobook)

Sayre’s law

Sayre’s law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.” (via wikipedia)

Using Firebug to Evaluate XPath Queries in Firebug

Start the Firebug console and use the ‘$x’ function. It takes one argument, the xpath query in single quotes. (via browsermob)

Publishing MATLAB Code

This link explains how you can annotate MATLAB code with markup to help communicate your ideas and result to others. For some tasks I already know that it will beat the LaTeX or copy and paste into Word lifecycle.

Instead of Saying “I Don’t Have Time,” Say “It’s Not a Priority”

Instead of Saying “I Don’t Have Time,” Say “It’s Not a Priority” – Laura Vanderkam

A Flowchart Cheatsheet

(via extreme presentation via lifehacker)

What is Endocrinology

A lot of papers on endometriosis that talk about measurements are talking about hormones. Reading about the study of those chemicals and mechanisms lead me to read Wikipedia’s article on the topic. These were the main high level points from the introductory paragraph: “is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, [...]

NexJ Scheme

NexJ Scheme is an open source project providing an efficient and powerful interpreter for the programming language Scheme that executes in a Java virtual machine. Today I was sort of shocked to learn that there is another implementation besides SISC and Kawa that runs on Java! There wasn’t even an announcement for NexJ on comp.lang.scheme [...]

Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts. The design of Tarsnap was guided by the following four [...]