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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for the 'Programming' Category. An interesting feature of several widely used Asian languages is that they’re tonal. 吗 ma (question tag). I was in an English supermarket recently and read the word “discount” on several items for sale. It occurred to me that the word discount can be used with at least a couple of different but related meanings:. I’m interest...
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The Safety Net » Be good to your colon
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Be good to your colon. Programmers spend more time reading code than writing it (a fact well known by most programmers who tend not to publicise this to their employers). It therefore stands to reason that (most? Programming languages should be designed as much for human consumption as for machine consumption and should be as readable as possible. Is it syntactic fluff?
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The Safety Net » Is English Tonal?
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. An interesting feature of several widely used Asian languages is that they’re tonal. 吗 ma (question tag). I was in an English supermarket recently and read the word “discount” on several items for sale. It occurred to me that the word discount can be used with at least a couple of different but related meanings:. The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary. I’m inte...
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Pro Python – Book Review. A recent thread on the Python Northwest. Mailing list asked for opinions on Marty Alchin. 8216;s book Pro Python. I thought I’d reproduce the answer I gave and expand on it a little. Marty Alchin starts his book with a refreshing approach. Rather than regurgitating Python facts to the reader, he takes a step by step tour of The Zen of Python.
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The Safety Net » Our days are numbered
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Our days are numbered. I chose three groups of related languages, partly for reasons of familiarity and interest, and partly to allow me to compare words within and across groups:. English and German (Germanic). French and Spanish (Romance). Arabic and Hebrew (Semitic). The origins of words for days of the week. Head over to this Wikipedia page. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jup...
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The Safety Net » bees
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Yesterday evening I took a visit with my other half and her mother to see the Manchester Beekeepers Association. At work in the beautiful Heaton Park. Beekeeping in Heaton Park. A fictional lethal enemy with a collective conscience often referred to as The Collective or The Hive Mind. Words (particularly English words) can have many different meanings depending on th...
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The Safety Net » databases
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Has been and gone and the day went very well. Many thanks to the 10gen. Guys who sponsor MongoDB. For putting on a great meeting. My head is spinning with thoughts and ideas about MongoDB and the host of possibilities it clearly opens up for many classes of application. Some stand-out features of MongoDB discussed at the meeting include the following:. Apparently the dev...
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The Safety Net » Words
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for the 'Words' Category. Our days are numbered. I chose three groups of related languages, partly for reasons of familiarity and interest, and partly to allow me to compare words within and across groups:. English and German (Germanic). French and Spanish (Romance). Arabic and Hebrew (Semitic). The origins of words for days of the week. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jup...
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The Safety Net » book
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Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad. 18 Posts and 29 Comments till now. This wordpress theme is downloaded from wordpress themes. Pro Python – Book Review. A recent thread on the Python Northwest. Mailing list asked for opinions on Marty Alchin. 8216;s book Pro Python. I thought I’d reproduce the answer I gave and expand on it a little. Marty Alchin starts his book with a refreshing approach. Rather than regurgitating Python facts to the reader, he takes a step by step tour of The Zen of Python.
