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♪ Siouxsie And The Banshees · Arabian Knights

If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to stop diverging further by permitting STUPID INPUT that cannot plausibly work in all other shells. We are in a post-Postel world. — OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts

♪ Romain Dubois · Ardoise

Accept multiple ways that users can ask for help and respond in kind. — Shell Script Best Practices

One of my favorite post-punk band from the 80’s. Big Ups: Bauhaus’ Kevin Haskins Dompe and David J Haskins Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites.

Python’s multiprocessing performance problem. Lot of interesting tips and tricks for those using the multiprocessing module. #python

Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot. Still one of the most underated plotting tool for quick one-liner.

Some Stata tutorials on survival analysis that are worth a read. #stata

If we do not understand both the data and the models completely, it becomes very difficult to spot problems in the software we use to work on them: unexpected behaviour arising from software bugs may be mistaken for a peculiarity in either of them. It is then crucial that we minimise the chances of this happening by applying all the best engineering practices we have at our disposal. — The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning.