[CentralOH] 2015-07-24 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? Unix is a tool builders' culture; types; how to figure stuff out; os.walk() scandir; Rollins College; GEB; Chaos; Rutan Long-EZ

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The big table was full and the room was almost full. 

Dojo will not be at Panera on 2015-07-31
Dojo will be merged with sprints, but we don't know where those will be.

Unix is a tool builders' culture. - rpherrold

Read:

    The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike
    The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz
    or Linux and the Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz

Types in new language
http://xkcd.com/1537/

Tiger Woods' ex-wife and Mr. Rogers

learn how to figure stuff out

    search for tutorial and what you want to learn
    search for howto and what you want to learn

North Korea's Red Star Linux inserts sneaky serial content tracker
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/20/north_korea_red_star_linux_inserts_sneaky_serial_content_tracker/

os.walk() is slow
https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk
fsdir https://code.google.com/p/fsdir/
scandir http://linux.die.net/man/3/scandir
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scandir
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/
https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir/

wp: prefix means Wikipedia
To get good answers, consider following the advice in the links below.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

wp:Rollins College
wp:Elin Nordegren
wp:Fred Rogers

wp:Gödel, Escher, Bach
wp:Chaos: Making a New Science
wp:Rutan Long-EZ