Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Apple's Feckless Download Protocol

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For those of us who live mostly off the grid, with inconsistent WiFi through hosts that flake out frequently, Apple's AppStore download ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Secure Salted Password Hashing

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An excellent exposition of secure salted password hashing. https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm This was really quite nice. It ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Python vs. R for Data Science

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This: Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science . Recently, I've had a former colleague asking questions about ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Mac OS X 10.9 and Python 3.3

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Finally upgraded to Python 3.3.3. The ordinary maintenance release fixed the problem with the previous release. The previously documented ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

When to choose Python over Java and vice versa ??: A Very Silly Question

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The correct answer is: It Doesn't Matter . In spite of this. (A) The question gets asked. And worse. (B) It gets answered. And p...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" Crashes Python -- Patch Available

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I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" today. Python 3.2.4 crashed in odd places. Not all the time. But help() stopped working...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Required Reading for everyone who said "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/64740079543/how-to-lose-172-222-a-second-for-45-minutes Here an important lesson. Code Rot is Rea...