A couple of weeks ago I made a comment to my team at work which I think a couple took harshly, but I believe it is true, and an indication of a deeper problem. I said “All of the really smart people at this company move to the ‘infrastructure’ teams within a few years, which …
I wrote this post in October of 2015 as I was adjusting to life without unit tests at a new job. I recently stumbled upon it in my Drafts, and edited it down to a single point for publication. In October of last year I took a new job at a company with a large …
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Recent updates to Debian testing (aka stretch) have rendered Anki broken, with the following error message at startup: $ anki Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/anki”, line 7, in <module> import aqt File “/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py”, line 12, in <module> from aqt.qt import * File “/usr/share/anki/aqt/qt.py”, line 22, in <module> from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebPage, QWebView, QWebSettings …
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