It's tempting to think of knowledge as being a collection of information that is "out there," which we collect as we go through life - moving pieces of knowledge from "things I didn't know" to "things I know." But it's important to remember that there are also "things I believe" that may or may not be true, and falsehoods that we wrongly thought of as knowledge (false beliefs). So far this year, a few things that I thought I knew turned out to be false beliefs:
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This is a quick update to my tutorial on hosting Django Apps on Ubuntu with Nginx and uWSGI. I recently wanted to move to a mix of Python 3.4 and Python 2.7 web apps on one of my servers that was set up as described in that tutorial. Here's how to do that.
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The company I work for is looking to hire another C++ developer. So I got to thinking about interview questions in general, and questions that would demonstrate an understanding of C++ pointer arithmetic in particular. Then an interesting question occurred to me. I'm not planning to actually ask this question (or any such questions), but I found it interesting and I couldn't find any similar question online - so I'm sharing both the challenge and my solution here.
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