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Once you make your request it will hang for several minutes. If by some miracle nothing breaks then you’ll eventually get back an HTTP response, exactly as if you’d sent the request over the normal internet like a normal person. The only difference is that it didn’t cost you anything. You will now almost certainly pay for wi-fi, because your curiosity has been satisfied and your time on this earth is very short.
PySkyWiFi: Completely Free, Unbelievably Stupid Wi-Fi on Long-Haul Flights
Robert Heaton
It's hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, every day that I program I use this, right? It is one of the key things that keeps me sane. Like, you can make lots of other features of the language away from me but like with my last dying breath I will keep my exhaustiveness checks.
As a born and raised Brazilian, I witnessed this huge **getting things done** behavior no matter how much *gambiarra** one will need to do. And that was present in many of my life circles: family, friends, work, services.. you name it.
*Gambiarra* is a improvised way to solve things. It’s not intended to be a long-term solution, but it will be fast and cheap, making problems disappear for a while.
Shifting approaches: from an idea-driven to a problem-driven mindset.
Daniela Castro
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