[CentralOH] 2016-05-27 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? oracle v google decimation? trolls least astonishment tuple unpacking CB UNIX hasing set dict marshmallow challenge

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Oracle v Google

    Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial-against-oracle-as-jury-finds-android-is-fair-use/

    $10bn Oracle v Google copyright jury verdict: Google wins, Java APIs in Android are Fair Use
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/google_wins_latest_round_in_oracle_copyright_battle/

    Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/op-ed-oracle-attorney-says-googles-court-victory-might-kill-the-gpl/

    Google's Fair Use Victory Is Good for Open Source
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googles-fair-use-victory-good-open-source-pamela-samuelson

Was this decimation[1] in the Roman sense?

    After suffering a painful incident, did an organization fire
    someone who did not cause the problem, so as to instill fear
    amongst the survivors, and not fire the person who caused the
    problem because the organization was too reliant on that person?

How Newegg is Winning the Battle Against Patent Trolls
https://www.linux.com/news/how-newegg-winning-battle-against-patent-trolls-video

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

Compare:

    wp:Principle of least astonishment

    Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/microsoft_clarifies_upgrade_trick/

*args in tuple unpacking
*expressions

    dojo at 4519n_high:~/i/dojo$ python3
    Python 3.4.3 (default, Oct 14 2015, 20:33:09) 
    [GCC 4.8.4] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> a = list(range(5))
    >>> a
    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
    >>> first, *middle, last = a
    >>> first
    0
    >>> middle
    [1, 2, 3]
    >>> last
    4
    >>> 

Cowtown was important for UNIX
wp:CB UNIX
wp:Bidet
wp:Furo

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlous

wp:PNC Bank
wp:45 RPM Record

hashing is magic
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20160523/cohpy-20160523-speed-of-searching-sets-and-lists.ipynb
http://pyvideo.org/video/2571/all-your-ducks-in-a-row-data-structures-in-the-s
http://pyvideo.org/video/276/the-mighty-dictionary-55
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table

    most happy with: generator expression for most common words
        line 39 (and lines 39-49) of
        https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201604-words/blob/57706ccaf571491f701600bc93b8d9dd4ae760ac/CWAndrews-OH/text_counter/word_count.py

    marshmallow challenge

    wp:Iterative design
    wp:Agile software development

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)