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[ironymaiden]

i would like to read a book the whole way through. i'm just not succeeding. right now i can't even land on a reread that i am able to stick with.

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i'm also going to be late with my first homework assignment for my summer python class. it's testing some existing classes and doing TDD for some stubbed-out methods. partly the slowdown is learning to use mock, but it's mostly that the project is OOP. the OOP lightbulb has been flickering on me; every so often i get a flash of usefulness but the rest of the time i don't understand why i should be making these fussy pretzels when we could be eating breadsticks already - import antigravity my ass.

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[mtbc]

There was a period during which I could write OOP code to pass assignments and the like but still before I saw why anybody would actually want to.

[ironymaiden]

yes. i'm sure this is a stage i just have to live through and it will click eventually.

[jesse_the_k]

I'm so glad that at least XKCD provides the commentary for every situation.

I'm amused to report that your mock link hits a very attractive 404 page:

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          \    This page does     /
           ]   not exist yet.    [    ,'|
           ]                     [   /  |
           ]___               ___[ ,'   |
           ]  ]\             /[  [ |:   |
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           ]  ]  ]         [  [  [ |:   |
           ]  ]  ]__     __[  [  [ |:   |
           ]  ]  ] ]\ _ /[ [  [  [ |:   |
           ]  ]  ] ] (#) [ [  [  [ :===='
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           ]         NNN         [
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          /          N            \
         /           q,            \
        /                           \

(ASCII art stick figure running down a hallway captioned "sorry, this page does not exist yet")

[ironymaiden]

I've fixed it now, but that is indeed a wonderful 404.