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Being More Productive with Quora Using Python

I asked my first question on Quora way back in 2011. Since then I’ve asked another 560 questions and written 209 answers. I use Quora regularly and don’t see that changing in the near future. Unfortunately, I’ve found Quora’s usability has decreased as the volume of content I’ve created (particularly questions) has increased. I know …

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Can You Run Oracle’s VirtualBox on a Windows System with Microsoft’s Hyper-V enabled?

Every year or two I try running VirtualBox on a system with Hyper-V enabled and it goes poorly. Recently there was some hope that VB would run alongside Hyper-V…and I actually had this working for a split second. But when I updated to the latest Windows build it broke again. Figured I’d share what I’ve …

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Automatically Adding Tests (e.g., Unit, Integration) to a Legacy Code Base

Many of us have written code that lacks tests to ensure code correctness and protect against human error. Most of us have worked with legacy code bases that have lacked these tests. Oftentimes the code has been written in a way that makes such testing quite difficult to add after the fact. I’m curious if …

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A New Take on Classic Programmer’s Humor.

Cayla Belser, a great friend and very talented artist, created a new take on a piece of classic programming humor I’ve used as my Facebook cover for some time now. I figured I’d share it with everyone, along with what the original looked like. Here is Cayla’s creation: Here is the original: