I'm playing with Twisted (a P2P twitter clone). It's a very cool idea, but it's slow to download the initial block chain (tweets are text!)
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I used to think it was strange that Common Lisp has case-insensitive symbols, but Nim considers fooBar, foobar and foo_bar as equivalent!
Large companies often have simpler, memorable phone numbers. I wonder if you can place a value on a number based on its human memorability?
" Do not make things easy to use, make your components and abstractions simple to understand." http://t.co/UMlLmfueIo
ES6 adds string interpolation and custom string literals! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/template_strings Remarkable for a language requiring backwards compat.
When even 100% path coverage isn't enough: http://t.co/bIFiwrC7sL
Nice sample code and explanation of foreach in io: http://t.co/eN0MTSHvCE (introspecting parameter names!)
OH: "Began using emacs a few days ago. Was trying to change font and accidentally found out when the next full moon is going to be."
Amazing elisp project of the day: an interpreter for Z code! https://github.com/jimm/elisp/blob/master/malyon.el (Z is a common language for text adventure games)
"I've never seen method-missing done in a lisp before." EIEIO and CLOS -- https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/2394
On a belated note, it's really nice how fast the @melpa_emacs web UI is. I like it for those rare cases when I don't have an Emacs instance.
Learn today that Emacs used to provide a "barebin" executable without libraries (but disk space is cheap today!) http://t.co/MwVialmv2g
One thing data science has taught me is that I measure too rarely, collect too few samples and graph too rarely.
"So the whole argument that people should parallelise their code is fundamentally flawed." -- Strong words from Linus http://t.co/PFYXCL4H5J
It's rather disappointing that CPU benchmarks can report different results by just changing the vendor string: http://t.co/rMYLn8IN5K
Pragmatic reasons why you can't (in all circumstances) just add floats to a language and simulate integers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8875324
Modern x86-64 CPUs chips have become radically more complex than the original x86 designs: http://t.co/D7V9IarSug fascinating article
Io is amazingly elegant language. The syntax is tiny yet readable.
I learn recently that JSHint is deprecating style warnings in favour of JSCS. The node.js community has amazing modularity.
Bash shortcuts are wonderful, but I worry about typos. One day I'm going to write `sudo !1` instead of `sudo !!` and cry.
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