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Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Dutch on Greece

There’s a lot of rather ugly propaganda about Greece going around at the moment. The Greeks hardly work at all before taking early retirement, and are now lazing on their beaches waiting for a European handout to solve their problems; the best option for the Netherlands would be if Greece left the euro, or failing [...]

Python’s trailing-comma syntax (a complaint)

I’ve been using Python for something over a year now, and I love it. I learned it on-the-fly, and it says a lot for the design of the language that I could pick it up so easily but that I still find it powerful and flexible a year later. But there is one feature of [...]