Frank FSX

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

The following line produces a unicode table (decimal value and unicode characters) using only zsh * expansion, * substitution and the print-builtin.

setopt extendedglob histsubstpattern multibyte
print -ac ${${(A)=u::={5126..5743}}:s/#%(#b)(*)/'${(r:6:m)match[1]}${(#mr:4:)match[1]}'/}

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le

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start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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

	"""
	This file contains code that, when run on Python 2.7.5 or earlier, creates
	a string that should not exist: u'\Udeadbeef'. That's a single "character"
	that's illegal in Python because it's outside the valid Unicode range.

	It then uses it to crash various things in the Python standard library and
	corrupt a database.

	On Python 3... well, this file is full of syntax errors on Python 3. But
	if you were to change the print statements and byte literals and stuff:

	# Notes for installing on Samsung Series 9
	# UEFI boot: LVM on LUKS
	#
	# See the full blog post:
	# http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/25/uefi/

	# check you are booted in uefi
	modprobe efivars
	ls /sys/firmware/efi/vars

	#!/usr/bin/env python2
	"""Delete tweets older than X days.

	Usage:

	rmtweets.py [at_least_days_old (default=365)]
	"""

	# Twitter gives access to only the last 3200 tweets, but if you delete
	# more recent tweets, then after some time (a week? a month?) the

	#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.5
	#
	# Usage: unmerged branch1 branch2

	proc getlog branch {
	lrange [split [exec git log $branch --oneline] "\n"] 0 100
	}

	proc diff {title c1 c2} {
	puts "\n$title"