$32 gets you Wikipedia in your pocker, anywhere: http://t.co/0QdoxCgjA9 neato. Perfect for kids.
miniblog.
Current status: writing Chef scripts. Works well with Vagrant, I'd much rather see an /etc/sudoers syntax error in a VM than on production.
@taoeffect Are you the author of this fine blog post? https://web.archive.org/web/20130524231226/http://www.gregslepak.com/on-lisps-readability I'd really like to see a copy with the images working.
Reading The Little Schemer has definitely affected how I code in any lisp, not just Scheme. Mind-expanding book.
"the average lifespan of a web page is 100 days, bookmarking a page [..] is not a great plan for saving information" https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/
Firefox's awesome bar works superbly, but I really miss being able to do a textual search on the text content of the page in my history.
Zero vs one indexed arrays and acknowledging programming history: http://t.co/0FJ2HUDAj0 really great read.
Built my first HTTP service using Haskell: https://github.com/Wilfred/chatty -- it was an adventure. The Haskell learning curve is still steep.
As the new gTLDs come into force, there's a risk of confusion. Solution: append an extension to distinguish between companies, orgs &c.
Playing with You Can't JS under pressure: http://t.co/PDnaksaAGE It's a *lot* easier with a JS interpreter open. REPL coding strikes again!
Following PEP 8 is like getting your 5 fruit and vegetables per day. It's a worthwhile goal, but missing slightly won't kill you.
Given a nullable column with a uniqueness constraint, should you allow multiple rows with NULL? Depends who you ask :/
fileinput: http://t.co/cRh1rl1evR lets you iterate over files as command line arguments, or stdin. Handy, just does the right thing.
I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language: http://t.co/MTnGzhZUTh
What's the process for fixing spelling mistakes on PEPs? #python
One of the fun things about machine learning is you have large datasets. A naive algorithm often isn't fast enough and forces optimisation.
Python 3.4: Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter. http://t.co/fFpbGDyoqJ Hurrah!
Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance: http://t.co/E5T3G5XBdT
Current status: installing setuptools but getting the error 'no module named setuptools'. Sheesh.
Deleted just over 150,000 lines of legacy code today without any loss of functionality!
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