I'm a Python programmer who switched to Mac OS X. Being nerd and needing to automate common tasks, the learning of the AppleScript language was unavoidable. To speed up the process I've took some notes, comparing the new commands to Python statements. The... (more…)

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The first known case of burnout in the field of open-source software, van Rossum speculated, may have been Charles Babbage, who gave up the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (the “Chair of Newton”) at Cambridge University in 1839. (more…)

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