A relative just visited whose current technology consists of a Windows computer
and a flip-phone. It was one of those situations where someone was coming to me
as a blank slate for a
[edited on 2014-11-07 to mention cordless phones that work with mobile phones]
Making voice calls using the telephone network is now antiquated. There are
practically no good financial reasons to have a landline
I'm one of those programmers that does not hold great nostalgia for old
programs. I'm always willing to toss aside some part of my software toolkit if
something better
Recently I wrote a blog post about how I don't worry about Python losing users
[https://snarky.ca/why-i-dont-worry-about-python-losing-users/]. Within minutes I
had people asking about Python's usage, which
I just had a need to read two files that were line-delimited lists of domains,
consolidate the data, and then output the domains sorted and all lowercased to a
new file. It took
