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Re: Gatheric

Simon Law — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:10:50 -0000

It looks like we will be missing two people, but I'm going to try to make it anyway.

Re: Finding versions of installed packages in Debian/Ubuntu (Shallow Thoughts)

Simon Law — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:59:53 -0000

dpkg-query --list '*glob*pattern*' | grep '^ii' will also give you what you want.

Re:

Simon Law — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:05 -0000

With a modern setup.py, you don't need a makefile just to run tests. You can define a testrunner right there and use python setup.py test. That's what I always try first, when I start hacking on a foreign module.

Re: A DSL in 5 Languages

Simon Law — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:42:19 -0000

Using **kwargs is even better, to express AND conditions. Use the double-underscore convention to separate searches. Although you do give up some operator overloading and will have to use "__lt" or "__ge".

One good example of this is Django's ORM: https://docs.djangoproject....

For instance:collection = Transaction.search(
order_id__startswith="a2d",
customer_website__endswith=".com",
billing_first_name="John",
status__in=[
Transaction.Status.Authorized,
Transaction.Status.Settled
],
amount__between=("10.00", "20.00")
)

Re: Linux: Bash Shell Keybinding List

Simon Law — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:19:39 -0000

Why do you list C-h for backspace, but not C-p and C-n for previous and next commands?

Re: GoInstant To Be Acquired by Salesforce

Simon Law — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:14:19 -0000

Amazing news! Congratulations!

Re: Open beta for our upcoming software

Simon Law — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:31:12 -0000

Landscape mode for smartphones would be lovely as well. My Galaxy Nexus dock is landscape so it does make it difficult to control the Sonos system while it's docked.

Re: Moving to Halifax for GoInstant

Simon Law — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:11:52 -0000

Great news! I hope the move goes well.

Re: Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011

Simon Law — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:50:06 -0000

How about some ethically produced boot cuffs to fend off the winter fashionably?

City Fox is a Kickstarter campaign to create eco-friendly and luxurious boot cuffs out of unwanted fur coats. They’re made and hand-finished in Montreal, Canada by old Italian grandmothers. Check out their fundraising page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/...

Disclaimer: I’m related to the crazy people running this campaign.

Re: Video: CS is my Life

Simon Law — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:01:41 -0000

Good old Computer Science Club. Still as messy as ever! :-)

Re: Spreading the love one card at a time

Simon Law — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:43:14 -0000

I’m Simon, from Akoha! Glad to see you received a deck of cards. :)

Re: TC50: Gaming panel roundup

Simon Law — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:14:49 -0000

Although we didn’t win Best in Show at TechCrunch50, Akoha certainly did win a lot of new players and a lot of enthusiasm! :)

Re: Ms. Pixel and the Mystery of ‘Akoha’

Simon Law — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:02:52 -0000

Hi Ms. Pixel,

We’re glad you enjoyed our presentation! And we’d love to hear what you think of Akoha!

Cheers,
Simon

Re: Emacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door!

Simon Law — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:06:06 -0000

Don't recommend Fetchmail. Getmail is _way_ better.

Re: Testing Django Applications

Simon Law — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:58:30 -0000

The other piece of the puzzle here is to have a network of Selenium servers. And a Python module that does this. Then, you can say:

def setUp(self):
self.start_test_server('0.0.0.0', 8000)
self.selenium = SeleniumCluster(browser="*pifirefox", os="windows xp", port=8000)

Re: Too much time on her hands

Simon Law — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:43:44 -0000

I wish I had more cognitive surplus. It's no fun to think and do all the time.

Re: Google App Engine Announces Pricing Plan, APIs, Open Access

Simon Law — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:19:21 -0000

Memecached, if it existed, would be wicked.

Re: New blog design

Simon Law — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:31:46 -0000

I'm not really sure it's nice and zippy. Firebug reports at least 15 seconds before Wordpress responds to the first request.

Re: You have received a painting from Sacha

Simon Law — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:12:08 -0000