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  1. 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupts. In Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash bury an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there is a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls are carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris. But they are also preserved. For centuries, as virtually every ancient text exposed to the air decays and disappears, the library of the Villa of the Papyri waits underground, intact.

  2. The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, specifically?

  3. "The price for securing your network is eternal vigilance and also your soul." "Whose soul? We're sysadmins." "Oh, right. End users. Hang on, I have a jar of them under my desk. Let me get one out for you."

  4. Literate DevOps 2016-03-29

    """ Instead of opening up a terminal to my virtual machine, I pop into Emacs and load this sprint’s /note file/1, create a new header, and enter the shell and ruby commands in this text file.

    What good is this? Unlike a traditional terminal, this allows me to log, document and execute each command.

    As an old bear with very little brains, my prose can explain the background and purpose of each command. Clicking the hyperlink refreshes my memory of previous discoveries. A keychord executes the code block… """

  5. PARIS UNPLUGGED 2013-08-18

    Paris, son histoire au travers de clichés anciens