Sneak Attack—Send IMs from Quicksilver

If you're using Adium and Quicksilver, and you hate having to mouse over to the contacts list and double-click, this one's for you.

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Sneak Attack—Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

Pure goodness, right up there with PEP-8 and PEP-20.

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I know it was you, Bravos. You broke my heart!

Low. Bush league.Disgraceful. The Atlanta Braves have opted to let John Smoltz go to the Red Sox. The face of the franchise, a man who altered his career multiple times to help the team, who took hometown discounts, and who pitched through pain to help them win, has gone to another team because the organization didn't think he was worth a $5.5 million flyer. This from the same organization that just made a contract offer to Mike Hampton! John Smoltz deserved better; he earned better. As an organization that has always prided itself on doing things The Right Way™, the Braves should be better. I can't remember ever being ashamed of the Braves in my entire life… until now.

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Sneak Attack - Awesome R Resource

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Sneak Attack: world war vi

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An R Cheatsheet

R is seriously cool. Unfortunately for me, I only use it about once a year, so I can never remember how to do anything; hence the cheatsheet.

Read a CSV file into a variable

users_usergroups <- read.csv(file="dev/users-per-group.csv", sep=",", head=TRUE)

Generate a boxplot

boxplot(users_usergroups$NUM_OF_USERS)

Generate a histogram

hist(users_usergroups$NUM_OF_USERS)

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A Python Kōan?

The Zen of Python teaches us Explicit is better than implicit. BDFL GvR made variable declarations implicit.

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