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As an intermezzo in the blog posts regarding my thesis, I’d like to point out an unexpected (or at least, unexpected for me) behaviour in Python’s way of constructing default arguments. Suppose we have the following python class MyClass, with an initializer...

So we have this project in Ruby on Rails where we keep track of several reports. Now we need to do some visualizations with all those reports. We analyzed several solutions. One was using Google Fusion Tables but we soon realized it was not an easy...

Whenever one of our team member travels to another country we tell her to track expenses like food, transportation and accomodation so that later that money can be refunded. Each of us does it in a different way: we write it in a notes application...

Introduction Disclaimer: this section is just happy talking, if you want to get right to the beef, skip it and go right to the beef. Yesterday was a sad day for me. It wasn’t meant to be like that. I began the day with the intention of setting up...