„Unforeseen Consequences“

I can not understand how a university could commit itself to rely on such external (proprietary) tools... This kind of vendor-lock-in within the teaching process would bug me both as a teacher and as a student. I built something similar (https://github.com/moschlar/SAUCE), which is open source.

Hey moschlar, if it makes a difference we work with individual instructors rather than the school as a whole and are a kind of pay as you go model rather than long terms contracts.

At least for German signalling rules, these sites are trying to explain it in English: http://www.sh1.org/eisenbahn/index.htm or http://www.joernpachl.de/German_principles.htm (Railway Engineering professor)

In that case that's a nasty tracker image by a german "writers collecting society"...

It doesn't look that way - it's not mentioned in the blog post neither on Pinterest's Github page.

Therefore, I don't really understand the purpose of this blog entry. Yay, they built something. What's the use, if it's not published and usable for others, too?

The plan is to work on open sourcing it later this year.

Essentially this gives the possibility to use context managers programmatically at runtime, which is quite awesome indeed!

This is a wonderful example of false advertising...

He's talking about very general "code reading" on the whole article and then, at the bottom, he lines out which languages he knows - and it suddenly gets disappointing for anyone outside the Ruby/JS world.

He has to be more clear about that in the headline.