Archives for 2015/08 (Lifestream)

Repeating the Facebook experiment. Sending out a tweet from a python app.  Can you see me? :)

Chocolate eclair at 10am. Mistake. Delicious mistake, but still a mistake.

Calvados Crusta. Possibly my new favourite drink.

I use Emacs as a python IDE. The web already offers a significant number of resources on the subject but I've made a couple of specialized tweaks that I feel may be worth sharing. So here we go.

Why am I doing this? Well, the simple answer is that I like using Emacs. I do most of my writing in it. I use it as my task manager and TODO list. I have, in the past, used it as my email client. So it makes sense that I would use it as my python development environment. Your mileage may vary.

I am mainly a Java developer and Eclipse user at work. Eclipse makes Java programming somewhat tolerable. I use the following features heavily:

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It's weird to think of email as "old-school".

When one is writing about software, does one capitalize the software names? Like, do I say Emacs or emacs?

Lays Montreal Smoked Meat potato chips bear an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. Bravo.

Jacques Parizeau died not too long ago. He infamously commented that the 1995 Quebec Referendum was lost due to money and the ethnic vote.

I was in high school, in Toronto, during the referendum. I remember my school following the whole thing very closely. I remember feeling relief when the No side won (by a hair) and I remember the uproar that his statements caused afterwards.

A word about my background before we go on. It's a bit of a mixed bag. I have a British first name (Desmond) and a French last name (Rivet). My mother is Sicilian. My father was French Canadian, though not technically Quebecois by birth (he was born in Sudbury). I myself was born in Montreal, so I am, in fact, a Quebecois by birth, but an Anglophone one, despite my last name. To make things more complicated, I spent a lot of my formative years (high school, University) in Toronto, so people often assume I'm from there.

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I really, really hate it when people use "political correctness gone mad" as an license for simple, plain assholery.