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Thanks to Andrew Pennebaker for pointing out where the decoder was broken. This update includes a complete rewrite of the JSON decoder. It is now slightly more forgiving and much more accurate. You can download it here or upgrade using nl-install. Submit article

HTML has no useful, built-in form widget for selecting from a large number of options. Some libraries offer Javascript-powered alternatives, but few of these are built to deal with more than a few hundred options. Submit article

Currying, known in Python land as partial application, is a technique in which a function taking multiple arguments composes a function that takes fewer arguments (in most languages, reducing to one, although this is not the case in Python) by partially applying it to given parameters. For example, a function, sum, might be used to [...]