kolber

pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though i were a man. when they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think i was “he” instead of “she” and so at first i did not say anything. i grinned and let them think i was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while i was uncomfortable. finally i said unto them that i, humdog, was a woman and not a man. this surprised them. at that moment i realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

datagrok

This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

shobhit

from collections import namedtuple
from math import sqrt
import random
try:
    import Image
except ImportError:
    from PIL import Image

Point = namedtuple('Point', ('coords', 'n', 'ct'))
Cluster = namedtuple('Cluster', ('points', 'center', 'n'))

gregsadetsky

import dj_database_url

TEST_DATABASES = {
    'default': dj_database_url.config(env='TEST_DATABASE_URL')
}

# replace path below to point to HerokuTestSuiteRunner class
TEST_RUNNER = 'python.path.to.test_suite_runner.HerokuTestSuiteRunner'

snipe

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  
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* /     \             \            /    \       *
*|       |             \          |      |      *
*|       `.             |         |       :     *
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*  \      \/   ___~~          ~____| \     |    *
*   \      \__~                    ~__\    |    *

equaliser

/*
  MCP4922 test
  Steve Woodward, 2010
  most code borrowed from
  http://mrbook.org/blog/2008/11/22/controlling-a-gakken-sx-150-synth-with-arduino/

    connections
====================================================

+5v           > 4922 pin 1

chrismetcalf

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import datetime
import urllib

from bokeh.plotting import *
from bokeh.models import HoverTool
from collections import OrderedDict

## Read in our data. We've aggregated it by date already, so we don't need to worry about paging

bryanl

docs

To start godoc at log in time (so it always there on port 6060 when you need it):

1. copy smarticus.godoc.plist to in ~/Library/LaunchAgents
2. launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/smarticus.godoc.plist
3. visit http://localhost:6060

KeyMaster-

//To be used on shadertoy.com
//Uses the image at iChannel0 and warps it into polar coordinates
void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
    vec2 relativePos = fragCoord.xy - (iResolution.xy / 2.0);
    vec2 polar;
    polar.y = sqrt(relativePos.x * relativePos.x + relativePos.y * relativePos.y);
    polar.y /= iResolution.x / 2.0;
    polar.y = 1.0 - polar.y;

bearfrieze

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

by Bjørn Friese

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.