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What is more important in software development? Having better quality team members? Or having the team members work together in a better way?

I was reading a post today explaining about how team performance in software development is more important than individual performance. And one part of the post said …

The idea of doing a computation within a special context isn't unique to quantum computing. Functional programming has a concept called the monad that does something similar. This is how it works: you have an input value and you want to perform a sequence of calculations within a certain special …

The concept of superposition is also used in quantum computing.

What is quantum computing?

In traditional computing, a bit can have a value of either zero or one. Quantum computing uses qubits (quantum bits). Qubits can have a certain probability to be zero or one. This is represented as $\mathrm{\alpha \; \dots }$

Yesterday, I wrote that Writing is a form of Thinking.

On the other hand, we are taught the way to write is

1. Come up with an outline
2. Flesh out the details

It rarely works that way because as we are fleshing out the details, we will get new insights and …

As I blogged about in the previous two articles, I recently updated my NeoVim configuration for the fourth time. Although it might sound like a lot of config updates, keep in mind that it happened over a period of four years.

• The first version was a port of my existing …

In the previous post, I mentioned how NeoVim can be configured to be more like an IDE. This means features like autocomplete and so on. Let us take a look at some tools which we can interface with NeoVim.

I have been a Vim user for many years, although I am by no means a Vim power user. Two years ago I switched my editor from Vim to NeoVim.

Vim is a general purpose editor, used for pretty much everything, from editing configuration files on remote SSH sessions and …

Was browsing through some old bookmarks and came across my Django screencast tutorials that I did for the site ShowMeDo way back in July 2007. These were some of the first video tutorials for Django and got a huge number of views. Crazy to think that it's been 15 years …

Have you been wanting to explore functional programming style in #python, but never got around to it?

Our Playful Python team created a playground for you using the newly added python support on Code Sandbox. Five hundred and twenty nine people have played around with it so far.

This example …

Which programming language are you are most interested in learning, but you never got around to doing so?

For me, Haskell was that language for a long time. Mainly to understand a pure functional programming paradigm.

I managed to spend quite a bit of time learning Haskell over the last …