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class MyAPINotAvailable < StandardError
  attr_accessor :message
  
  def initialize(message)
    @message = "Failed to connect to MyAPI: #{message}"
  end
end

raise MyAPINotAvailable.new "Could not update Foo"

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class composable:
    def __init__(self, func):
        self.func = func
    
    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
    
    def __or__(self, other):
        return lambda *args, **kwargs: self(other(*args, **kwargs))
    

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from tests import factories
from website import models
from website.util import web_url_for
from main import app

def print_merge_url(user, token, prefix):
    with app.test_request_context():
        print(prefix + ": " +
            web_url_for(
                'confirm_email_get',

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{
  "tasks": [
    { "id": 1, "text": "my text 1" },
    { "id": 2, "text": "my text 2" },
    { "id": 3, "text": "my text 3" },
    { "id": 4, "text": "my text 4" }
  ]
}

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alert('foo');

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Interns doing Github issues 7/28

• Xander
• Saman
• Erica
• Casey
  • CenterForOpenScience/osf.io#515
• Cailey
  • CenterForOpenScience/osf.io#782

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• There once was a developer who had a problem. They decided to solve this problem using a regex. That developer now has two problems.

• All problems in computer science can be solved through additional layers of abstraction.

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#### Template (proposed, unnamed language)

doctype(5)
html>head
    style('my_stylesheet.css')
    script('my_script.js')
    title= {{ title }}

    body>div.container
        navbar(main_menu_links)

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Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong

I'm a Python programmer and frequently work with the excellent [virtualenv][] tool by Ian Bicking.

Virtualenv is a great tool on the whole but there is one glaring problem: the activate script that virtualenv provides as a convenience to enable its functionality requires you to source it with your shell to invoke it. The activate script sets some environment variables in your current environment and defines for you a deactivate shell function which will (attempt to) help you to undo those changes later.

This pattern is abhorrently wrong and un-unix-y. activate should instead do what ssh-agent does, and launch a sub-shell or sub-command with a modified environment.

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