Blog of Rob Galanakis (@robgalanakis)

Archive for September, 2013

Uh… a in b in c?

So I just came across some code like this in our Python 2.7 codebase: if 'foo' in dirname in filename: First, I was surprised this was a valid syntax. Second, I was surprised it didn’t work like (a in b) in c which would equal True in c  #...

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Hansoft is horrible

I’ve used Hansoft for 5 years across 2 jobs. Over that time, I’ve had more arguments about Hansoft than I wish to remember. In this post, I’m going to present a dialogue between Socrates, a software development, and Phonion, a Project Manager (Producer, Product Owner, Product Manager, whatever) about...

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