“Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human … Continue reading These 20 pictures will teach you more than reading 100 books
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Lambda functions in Python
A lambda function in python has the following syntax. Syntax of Lambda Function in python lambda arguments: expression Lambda functions can have any number of arguments but only one expression. The expression is evaluated and returned. Lambda functions can be used wherever function objects are required. Example: double = lambda x: x * 2 # Output: … Continue reading Lambda functions in Python
“Google Was Not a Normal Place”: Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything
A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters, space tethers, and Burning Man to the “eigenvector of a matrix,” humongous wealth, and extraordinary power. In 1996, as the World Wide Web was taking off, Larry Page and Sergey Brin watched from the sidelines. Unlike the rest of Silicon Valley, … Continue reading “Google Was Not a Normal Place”: Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything
What is gemfile in a Ruby or Rails application
Ruby developers use Gemfiles all the time, and most of us know how to do the basics. In this post I want to dive deep into everything we can do with a Gemfile. What is a Gemfile? A Gemfile is a file we create which is used for describing gem dependencies for Ruby programs. A … Continue reading What is gemfile in a Ruby or Rails application
HTTP Request in Rails
Request is an object in ActionDispatch (ActionDispatch::Request < Object ), which in turn is part of ActionPack. It is available in Rails helper (which is available in View). Controller is inherited from ActionController. The request object is typically only accessible from the controller and the view. You could just pass the request to the methods … Continue reading HTTP Request in Rails
Python packages and the purpose of __init__.py file
Packages are a way of structuring Python’s module namespace by using “dotted module names”. For example, the module name A.B designates a submodule named B in a package named A. Just like the use of modules saves the authors of different modules from having to worry about each other’s global variable names, the use of … Continue reading Python packages and the purpose of __init__.py file
