[CentralOH] 2016-09-16 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? string concatenation; super-globals; merge dictionaries; annotations; new new thing; pandas

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

four folks tonight
    scotch magic tape
    http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2334.html
    brought XO-1
    was surprised that three tabs in browser overwhelmed it
    installing other versions of Python was taxing

string concatenation
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20160916-dojo-string-concatenation.ipynb

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:Sayoko Yamaguchi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_India#States_reorganization_.281951-56.29

Small Is Beautiful
Economics as if People Mattered
E. F. Schumacher
1973
http://www.ditext.com/schumacher/small/small.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Enfield's_Television_Programme#Mr_Cholmondley-Warner

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2468352/10-of-the-worlds-most-obscure-computers/page/9
Morrow Pivot

wp:Morrow Pivot II

Kernel Self Protection Project
http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project

PS3 Linux debacle lawsuit
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/youre-a-step-closer-to-getting-55-from-the-ps3-linux-debacle-lawsuit/

Let's Encrypt Aiming to Encrypt the Web
http://www.eweek.com/security/lets-encrypt-aiming-to-encrypt-the-web.html

Dig Into DNS: Part 1
https://www.linux.com/learn/dig-dns-part-1

Dig Into DNS: Part 2
https://www.linux.com/learn/dig-dns-part-2

Dig Into DNS: Part 3
https://www.linux.com/learn/dig-dns-part-3

Ignore this off-topic stuff:

    Here's How Ford Came Up With Ken Block's Furious Focus RX Rallycross Car
    http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a30236/heres-how-ford-built-ken-blocks-crazy-race-car/

    Watch Ken Block Go Insane In an Industrial Park for Gymkhana Nine
    http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/videos/a30767/gymkhana-9-ken-block/

wp:Recursion
Fractals The Hidden Dimension HD 1080p Nova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkI0y43EqHI
behavior of people in financial markets?

cool beans?

    Oracle's NetBeans Headed to The Apache Software Foundation
    http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/oracles-netbeans-headed-to-the-apache-software-foundation.html
    Oracle happy to let Apache Foundation adopt NetBeans
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/oracle_happy_to_let_apache_foundation_adopt_netbeans/
    Oracle abandons NetBeans to Apache
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-abandons-netbeans-to-apache/

    but does it support Python?

Securing the Programmer
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/securing-programmer

LEGB:
Use __builtins__ to make super-global values

    >>> __builtins__.hello
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'hello'
    >>> __builtins__.hello = 'world'
    >>> hello
    'world'
    >>>

Another Day, Another Anomaly: Paramount Issues DMCA Takedown On Ubuntu Linux Torrent
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160912/09295735500/another-day-another-anomaly-paramount-issues-dmca-takedown-ubuntu-linux-torrent.shtml

Google's become an obsessive stalker and you can't get a restraining order
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/google_location_location_location/

Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/

The Idiomatic Way to Merge Dictionaries in Python
https://treyhunner.com/2016/02/how-to-merge-dictionaries-in-python/

What the rise of permissive open source licenses means
http://www.cio.com/article/3120235/open-source-tools/what-the-rise-of-permissive-open-source-licenses-means.html
Open Source Software Licensing Trends
https://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/02/05/open-source-software-licensing-trends/

the feds will soon be able to legally hack almost anyone
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/government-will-soon-able-legally-hack-anyone/

Annotations

    Exploring Function Annotations
    Adam Forsyth
    http://www.pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/237/
    https://github.com/agfor/annotations

    Mypy improves static type-checking for big Python apps
    http://www.infoworld.com/article/3066749/application-development/mypy-improves-static-type-checking-for-big-python-apps.html
    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mypy-lang
    http://www.mypy-lang.org/

wp:Pitch_drop_experiment#Trinity_College_Dublin_experiment

Tmux Cheat Sheet & Quick Reference
http://www.tmuxcheatsheet.com/

Pass the 'Milk' to make code run four times faster, say MIT boffins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/15/mit_milk/

learn how to use git
learn either vim or emacs
wp:Unix philosophy
    read Mike Gancarz: The UNIX Philosophy
        (interlibrary loan???)
read
    wp:The Unix Programming Environment
        (interlibrary loan???)

The New New Thing
    Jim Clark
        Silicon Graphics
        Netscape
        WebMD

write your own entry for current challenge
    https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201608-refactor
    It's OK to improve someone else's entry

refactor previous challenge entries

even though previous entries are over, study them
    https://github.com/cohpy/
    For each entry,
        what did you like?
        what did you not like?
        refactor them to be the way you like

20160916-dojo-string-concatenation

Python for Data Analysis
by Wes McKinney
O'Reilly

http://trading-shim.org/
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/