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Don’t Beg the Question

Posted on Monday 12 November 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

Did you know: “begging the question” doesn’t mean what you* think it means. * “You” applies to 90.1%** of living English-speaking people. ** This figure was plucked from the æther, so it must be true. What Does It Mean? Traditionally, … Continue reading →

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PyCon Australia 2012: Sunday

Posted on Monday 3 September 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

I wrote about the Saturday of PyCon Australia a few weeks ago. To round it off, here’s my highlights from the Sunday. Benno Rice (of bellowtheline fame) gave a brilliant talk on Behave, a cute behaviour driven development framework for … Continue reading →

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Happy Spam: I Can Only Compliment You

Posted on Monday 7 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

There’s a phenomenon I’ve been noticing, and I’d value your comments on the best approach to take. This is what happens: I post an article to my blog. Then I wait. Then the comment moderation queue starts to get comments … Continue reading →

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Romulus, My Window Manager

Posted on Monday 23 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

About a year ago, I wrote about making your own window manager in Python, and how to extend this to use Twisted as your window manager’s main loop. Around the time I wrote those articles, I also wrote a tiling … Continue reading →

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On Factions and Fractions

Posted on Monday 9 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

Imagine a situation where a group of n people have to make a decision by simple majority. For the sake of the argument, let’s call this group of people a parliament. Now let’s consider an individual person P who is … Continue reading →

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