Repeating the Facebook experiment. Sending out a tweet from a python app. Can you see me? :)
Archives for 2015/08 (Lifestream)
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Aug 27, 2015, 3:08 PM -04:00 Chocolate eclair at 10am. Mistake. Delicious mistake, but still a mistake.
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Aug 21, 2015, 8:08 PM -04:00 Calvados Crusta. Possibly my new favourite drink.
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Aug 20, 2015, 1:48 AM -04:00 Emacs and Python
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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Aug 18, 2015, 9:08 AM -04:00 It's weird to think of email as "old-school".
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Aug 14, 2015, 12:08 PM -04:00 When one is writing about software, does one capitalize the software names? Like, do I say Emacs or emacs?
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Aug 13, 2015, 8:08 PM -04:00 Lays Montreal Smoked Meat potato chips bear an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. Bravo.
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Aug 13, 2015, 12:31 AM -04:00 Reflections on the Ethnic Vote
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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Aug 7, 2015, 8:08 AM -04:00 I really, really hate it when people use "political correctness gone mad" as an license for simple, plain assholery.