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Suppose I have blocking process blocking_process:

import os

os.system('rm -fr /tmp/pipe; mkfifo /tmp/pipe')
print len(open('/tmp/pipe').read())

On Linux, I might check what is it blocking on by doing:

$ strace -p $(pgrep -f blocking_process)

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#!sh

function newline() { printf "$@\n"; }
function color() {
    output="\e[$1m"
    shift
    [ -n "$1" ] && output="$output$@\e[00m"
    printf "$output"
}
function reset() { color "00"; }

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def parse_with(parser):
    def decor(func):
        def __get__(self, instance, owner=None):
            return self.__class__(instance, owner)
        def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            params = parser.parse_args()
            if self.instance:
                return func(self.instance, params, *args, **kwargs)
            return func(params, *args, **kwargs)
        def __init__(self, instance=None, owner=None):

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web: ./compileror $PORT

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from os import environ
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
e = create_engine(environ['DATABASE_URL'],
                  connect_args={"application_name": "foo"})
e.connect()

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• I am yaniv-aknin on github.
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To claim this, I am signing this object:

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I posted this internally at Google, someone asked me to post it externally. To be frank, I almost didn't write it because it seemed so obvious. But isn't that the point? What's obvious to you might not be to others. So I'm happy to oblige.

Maybe this is obvious, maybe this is so generic that it's useless, but I feel it has to be written somewhere.

The time you spend on communicating something (writing a doc, an email, a bug, a comment, ...) should be proportional to the "distance" of the person receiving the message.

Distance varies on three axes I can think of:

• Physical: This one is obvious, but requires some explanation. If someone is far away from you, your bandwidth is hugely limited already. You speak to them less often, they don't get your body language, they don't get your tone, they don't get you. Make things easy for them.
• Subject matter: The less someone knows about (your project, this topic, your likely state of mind), the more you should explain. Good communication is a lot about empat

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#!/usr/local/opt/playground/bin/python

"""
Helper tool to process the UK Land Registry data
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-registry-data/public-data
"""

import numpy
import functools
import multiprocessing

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~everything I know about replays I learned from Askaholic and norraxx.

They wrote the Rust and Python replay parsers.