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arkitektonas: Amphitheater of Parque Villa Lobos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

huzn: 大友 克洋

todayinhiphophistory: Today in Hip Hop History: Prince Paul released his second studio album A Prince Among Thieves February 23, 1999

briannavictoriaaa: Holy shit. How is this venue not jam-packed? That was amazing.

brucesterling: *When they say “elegant,” they don’t mean aesthetically attractive, because they’re engineers Where does “easy to read” fit? Because that’s my favorite.

Part I: Before I Typed a Single Curly Brace or Semicolon When I first saw some JSX code in a tutorial on React, I immediately poo-pooed the whole library: “What is that, HTML in JavaScript? Facebook, grrr! I’m no wizard, but that’s a terrible combination of concerns! Also, it’s ugly and please give me back my Jade, immediately.” But, as time went on and as one of my co-workers continued his incessant gushing about React, I finally broke down and gave it a spin. And I really, really liked it. ...

Since I can’t upvote the question or answer, I thought I’d just give a shout-out to this question on unix.stackexchange.com. To delete duplicate rows from a CSV file using the command line: awk -F, '!seen[$0]++' inputfile.csv > outputfile.csv Fantastic.

https://gist.github.com/chrisbodhi/b7b10f5e428088fa38da @chrisbodhi I also find it difficult to understand how the test cases are passed. I’ve checked them and they do, but in my opinion test_name_sticks should fail as every call to name will append a new random name to the previous one instead of returning the same string. For example, if we run a simple test: robot = Robot.new 2.times{puts robot.name} we get: QF658 QF658YV199 making it clear that the test should fail. —franrodalg ...

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project at work that has involved, among other things, parsing XML and updating existing XML files. Just like every other time I have to deal with XML, I do two things: Throw up a little bit. gem install nokogiri I found lots of code samples, including in the Nokogiri tutorials, that discussed how to create a new node and then insert a string as the node contents. This would have been ok if my node contents didn’t contain more nodes. Nokogiri tried to be helpful and escaped the node contents. So, not very many < and >, but lots of &gt; and &lt;. ...

I just started playing around with Beats, a command-line drum machine installed as a Ruby gem. It accepts YAML and outputs .wav files like it’s 1998. As I started noodling around with the tutorial, I noticed that the feedback loop could be tighter. I’m used to working with tools like grunt watch at work, and wanted a smoother flow. Rather than getting grunt running, I searched for some command-line solutions. This is what I found. ...