"giving up ownership sells the community instead" https://medium.com/message/diary-of-a-corporate-sellout-587479c215f4 (selling a small startup to an established company is difficult)
miniblog.
Once a language is established, it's rare to see much work on the docs. I'm impressed to see Rust is still polishing
The opposite of syntactic sugar is, amusingly, 'syntactic salt': https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/008324.html (meaning: intentionally awkward syntax)
ido tip: if the current file doesn't exist, ido searches for similar files. You can undo with C-z, or simply disable
I used to be a big user of oh-my-zsh, but I'm migrating to just having my own .zshrc. It's easier to learn and understand what's going on.
Another nice consequence of compiling Emacs from source is that you can view the C source of builtins. It's wacky C:
What's the best poison value to use for kernel malloc? OpenBSD eventually concluded that it depends on the arch:
I've started using bleeding edge Emacs. Works well! E.g. python-mode has had a lot of polish since 24.5, and Emacs even has a new icon!
The design goal of LLVM is: everything as a reusable library!
Is low level programming harder than high level programming? I sometimes feel so, but I do much more high level coding.
"the revenue [ads] provide to publishers may be outstripped by users dropping off their sites"
Emacs tip of the day: defadvice is considered 'largely obsolete' in favour of explicit advice-add:
Parts of linux are comically old-fashioned. `stty -a` tells me that my terminal is 38400 baud!
TIL that org-mode has a great template system to save you typing things like #+BEGIN_SRC
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