A Tale of Two Cities
Hurtling down I-25 at 70 miles per hour, a phone latches securely into its windshield mount, tapping the van’s electrical system to augment its small reserve. Many devices look up as it passes by,...
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While Haystack is a great way for Django developers to get search up and running quickly and with relatively little pain, its strategy of supporting many popular search engines tends to encourage...
View ArticleMathematicians, proud of looking backward
The Constancy of Mathematics Many years ago I worked for the American Mathematical Society, contributing to the AMS’s flagship product MathSciNet. Mathematicians have a unique way of looking at the...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Writing Software
I’ve always been a libertarian when it comes to the writing of code. When the team recently became enamored with coding style guides (e.g. A style guide for Python tests) and asked my opinion regarding...
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