Baptiste Fontaine bfontaine

Give me back my sanity

One of the many things I do for my group at work is to take care of automating as many things as possible. It usually brings me a lot of satisfaction, mostly because I get a kick out of making people's lives easier.

But sometimes, maybe too often, I end up in drawn-out struggles with machines and programs. And sometimes, these struggles bring me to the edge of despair, so much so that I regularly consider living on a computer-less island growing vegetables for a living.

This is the story of how I had to install Pandoc in a CentOS 6 Docker container. But more generally, this is the story of how I think computing is inherently broken, how programmers (myself included) tend to think that their way is the way, how we're ultimately replicating what most of us think is wrong with society, building upon layers and layers of (best-case scenario) obscure and/or weak foundations.

*I would like to extend my gratitude to Google, StackOverflow, GitHub issues but mostly, the people who make the

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Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

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Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

	require 'open-uri'
	require 'zlib'
	require 'yajl'

	# References
	# - https://developers.google.com/bigquery/preparing-data-for-bigquery#dataformats
	# - https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/data#nested
	#

	def type(t)

	# encoding: utf8 1,1 Top# encoding: utf8
	import argparse
	from datetime import datetime
	import json
	from random import randint
	import requests
	import sys
	from time import sleep

	// Pre-render d3 force-directed graph at server side
	// Call node pre_render_d3_graph.js to generate d3_graph.html
	// Original idea and framework borrowed from https://gist.github.com/mef/7044786

	var d3 = require('d3')
	, jsdom = require('jsdom')
	, fs = require('fs')
	, htmlStub = '<html><head> \
	<style>.node { stroke: #fff; fill: #ccc; stroke-width: 1.5px; } \
	.link { stroke: #333; stroke-opacity: .5; stroke-width: 1.5px; }</style> \

	#
	# This Python script makes a summary of a football game by cutting
	# the video around the 10 % loudest moments, which generally
	# include the goals and other important events.
	# For more details, see this blog post:
	# http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/07/04/automatic-soccer-highlights-compilations-with-python/
	#
	# LICENCE: Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain
	# I, the author of this script, wave any rights and place this work in the public domain.
	#

	# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
	#
	# Current known FCC address ranges:
	# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
	#
	# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
	#
	# In your nginx.conf:

	location / {

Baptiste Fontaine bfontaine

Give me back my sanity

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Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

Vectors and Sequences