I worked for a large firm where most of the developers thought they did agile because they did Scrum. Despite the six month release cycle with three week planning phase at the start of each release cycle (and the death march at the end)...

#Python can be incredibly expressive. Here is a beautiful snippet for computing a mode from a list of unhashable, unsortable inputs. max(data, key=data.count) The running time is quadratic so only use this with smallish inputs.

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#Python tip: Use "pass" to explicitly mean "do nothing" and "..." for "more code should go here." def consume(iterator): for _ in iterator: pass def stub(x, y, z): # Someday, I will get to this ...

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