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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:07 +0000

2013.02.09 - DuckDuckGo

recently i've came across an interesting, start-up search engine called DuckDuckGo. first thing is privacy policy, which is not commonly respected nowadays (https is standard of course). there are a lot of nice features, like integration with WolframAlpha for doing mathematical calculations on the fly. in general it is plugin-reach and returns reasonable results. i though of giving it a try as my default search engine. let see how it performs in the wild. :)

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:07 +0000

2013.02.09 - programming wat

as a part of exercising my (basic) python skills i've decided to write short HTML links extractor and combiner, to download a series of lectures on cryptography (which, btw i highly recommend!) to disk. as an experienced C++ developer, having to increment variable, as a part of the loop, i typed:

++i

and… it didn't increment. wtf? quick search showed that python uses “+” and “-” as sign indicators, for number and thus parses “++i” as “+(+i)”, which gives “i”. WAT? and this is how i reminded myself of an short, excellent talk about “nice” pitfalls in rubby and javascript.

good news:

just learned something new
had some fun

bad news:

got late
want sleep

BaSzErr - blog:2013:02:09

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2013.02.09 - DuckDuckGo

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2013.02.09 - programming wat