[CentralOH] 2015-09-04 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? finance; chalk; codedojo; 3840x2160; code reviews; falsehoods; trello; pep8 updated; minecraft; save python commands; color blindness; how to give talk; regex; powerline; open source routers

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Feast your eyes:

    DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
    DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )

Can a Bash script tell what directory it's stored in?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/can-a-bash-script-tell-what-directory-its-stored-in
Thank you Dave Dopson.

One of the things I like about Python is the absence of sigils.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/hagoromo-chalk-why-the-demise-of-a-japanese-company-is-a-blow-to-mathematics-10326313.html

Python for Finance
Analyze Big Financial Data
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032441.do

ooda
http://opensource.com/business/15/9/tips-avoiding-impostor-syndrome

Code ninjas earn "belts" with CoderDojo
http://opensource.com/life/15/9/coderdojo-technology-skills
https://coderdojo.com/
(CohPy's Dojo is not a CoderDojo)

3840x2160
http://blog.codinghorror.com/our-brave-new-world-of-4k-displays/
30Hz bad; 60 Hz good, so use DisplayPort 1.2 or better
http://www.colebrookbossonsaunders.com/products/monitor-arm-stand/flo

Wrong on the Internet
http://dilbert.com/strip/2006-10-27
Our Brave New World of 4K Displays
http://blog.codinghorror.com/our-brave-new-world-of-4k-displays/

We need to do code reviews.
https://twitter.com/sempf/status/514473420277694465

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Falsehoods programmers believe about time
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

wp: prefix means Wikipedia
To get good answers, consider following the advice in the links below.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

wp:trello
https://leanpub.com/trellodojo
wp:kanban

PEP 8 was expanded much a little over two years ago.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Chinese Navy Ships Spotted Off Alaska During Obama Visit

10 open source alternatives to Minecraft
http://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-minecraft

rear end saver for Python interpreter:

    import readline
    for i in range(readline.get_current_history_length()):
        print readline.get_history_item(i)

from "how do you see the entire command history in interactive python?"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6558765/how-do-you-see-the-entire-command-history-in-interactive-python
Thank you Denis Golomazov.

13. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/interactive.html

wp:Gene therapy for color blindness
Gene therapy for red–green colour blindness in adult primates
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7265/full/nature08401.html
Insight Into the Color Blindness Gene and Gene Therapy
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/genomics/2011/Holzwarth/CBP 3.html

A Talk on Giving a Pythonic Talk
http://pyvideo.org/video/3378/a-talk-on-giving-a-pythonic-talk

Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do

Powerline, written in Python
https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
https://github.com/powerline/powerline

FCC Proposal Would Make It Impossible to Install Open Source Firmware on Routers
http://news.softpedia.com/news/fcc-proposal-would-make-it-impossible-to-install-open-source-firmware-on-routers-491029.shtml