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Borrowed from:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573135/python-progression-path-from-apprentice-to-guru

I've been learning, working, and playing with Python for a year and a half now. As a biologist slowly making the turn to bio-informatics, this language has been at the very core of all the major contributions I have made in the lab. I more or less fell in love with the way Python permits me to express beautiful solutions and also with the semantics of the language that allows such a natural flow from thoughts to workable code.

What I would like to know is your answer to a kind of question I have seldom seen in this or other forums. This question seems central to me for anyone on the path to Python improvement but who wonders what his next steps should be.

Let me sum up what I do NOT want to ask first ;)

    I don't want to know how to QUICKLY learn Python
    Nor do I want to find out the best way to get acquainted with the language

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General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns

http://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/asd/ht14/Lecture%204.pdf
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jin/3132/lectures/dp-13.pdf
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/214/slides/design-grasp.pdf
https://dzone.com/articles/solid-grasp-and-other-basic-principles-of-object-o

A collection of patterns/principles for achieving good design – patterns of assigning responsibility. Refer to software objects not domain objects.

iamricky

General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns

http://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/asd/ht14/Lecture%204.pdf
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jin/3132/lectures/dp-13.pdf
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/214/slides/design-grasp.pdf
https://dzone.com/articles/solid-grasp-and-other-basic-principles-of-object-o

A collection of patterns/principles for achieving good design – patterns of assigning responsibility. Refer to software objects not domain objects.

iamricky

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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/* Helper buddy for removing async/await try/catch litter 🗑 */
function O_o(promise) {
  return promise.then(data => {
    if (data instanceof Error) return [data]
    return [null, data]
  }).catch(err => [err])
}

/* Look ma, no try/catch */
async function usageExample(params) {

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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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const flatten = items => {
  return [].concat(...items.map(value => {
    if (Array.isArray(value)) {
      return flatten(value);
    }

    return value
  }));
};

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Notes on Paul Irish's "Things I learned from the jQuery source" casts

I watched these videos on 2012/12/14. Today's jQuery version is 1.8.3. So there might be some differences from the original video. I've briefly noted some of the differences between what described in the video and the current stable release. Most code he desribed can be found easily in speed/jquery-basic.js (1.4.2).

Episode 1

• 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source - YouTube
• 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source « Paul Irish

2010-06-14 (jQuery 1.4.1)

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Using collection.parse

(function () {
    //Create a Car Collection
	var CarCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
		
		//Specify REST URL
		url: 'http://localhost:8500/rest/Car/CarService',
		initialize: function () {