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Careful when using mutable types as default arguments in Python

As an intermezzo in the blog posts regarding my thesis, I’d like to point out an unexpected (or at least, unexpected for me) behaviour in Python’s way of constructing default arguments. Suppose we have the following python class MyClass, with an initializer with a default list parameter: class MyClass: def __init__(self, list=[]): self.list = list … more

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9 developers in one month

It is well known in the project management world that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. This is known as Brooks’ law. An analogy is that you can’t use 9 women to make a baby in one month.

A couple of days ago, at Manas we did the experiment of doing a one-day project with a team of 15 developers, architects and designers. more

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