Written by Ram Rachum, developer of GarlicSim.
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Why making a cool project is a good idea for an aspiring software developer
As a software developer, I get to know a lot of other software developers. Many of the software developers I know are either running a startup, working as an early employee for a startup, doing contract jobs for a startup, or dreaming of one day starting a startup. My point is that software developers are very interested in startups, either starting them or working for them.
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`SimpackSelectionDialog` almost done
Hey, only a few weeks remain until the release of GarlicSim 0.7. I just wanted to give you a sneak peak of the new SimpackSelectionDialog, incidentally on a Mac:
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DreamPie: My favorite Python shell
If you’re not familiar with it, you should really check out DreamPie, which is a graphical Python shell.
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Why don’t people use enum in Python?
A while ago I was introduced to the concept of enum in Java. I never programmed Java, but this looks like the solution for when you want a variable to hold a value from a limited set of possible values. What is usually done in Python is either using a string or an index number, both of which are less elegant solutions in my opinion.
Python doesn’t provide a built-in enum type, but I found a few third-party modules, out of which I chose flufl.enum as being the most promising:
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