x86 page fault handling is Turing complete: http://t.co/yuPHJX9OKm (bonkers but cool)
miniblog.
RPython is fun, but it feels quite different to plain old Python.
I've never seen the benefit of online stores that give the option of view 10/20/50/all per page. Just show me everything you have.
Gobsmacked to see pandoc produce great results from latex to docx. Really impressive.
@KrystalHosting you are sending me unwanted marketing emails without unsubscribe links. Emailing contact@krystal.co.uk bounces. Please fix.
Microsoft are planning an iPad version of Office for 'fall 2014': http://t.co/2ttceAU7le . The times, they are a'changing.
DRM isn't broken, and it works well: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qtnxhuojytbjbr04ci3cowrmtehsy324 Deep insight from Ian Hickson
The tragedy of backwards compatibility: Excel still considers 1900 to be leap year and doesn't plan to fix it: http://t.co/c52HXkaiEP
Multi-monitor is still so hit-and-miss on Linux with X. Roll on Wayland. Competition is good anyway.
Good comments > no comments >> wrong comments
Discovered C-S-backspace for kill-whole-line in Emacs today. No more C-a C-k hammering!
"If the CLOS you are using to run the CLOS that implements the CLOS uses the CLOS you are running[…]". Lisp programmers *get* recursion.
Yikes. On Python 2 `foo = lambda: 5; print foo > 6, foo() > 6` gives 'True False'. Hides tricky bugs. Another reason to move to Python 3.
Today I learnt you can make Emacs persist formatting to the file itself: http://t.co/qPOcINxAZw
Python packaging still isn't effortless. I'm wrestling with a project that worked fine on distribute, but it's a pain to upgrade.
There seems to be a small intersection between the ability to make beautiful frontends and beautiful backends. Practice your weaknesses.
@jessenoller I'd like to copy the Python code of conduct (largely verbatim) for a project. What's the license on it?
'A good place to look for information on this is http://t.co/juAjJ0JfMd';. True, but overly general to the point of being useless.
Smart Cities: Buggy and Brittle: http://t.co/Z4udTgmoUs
Implementing coroutines with call/cc: http://t.co/kl2qv9borx concise, elegant, and mind-bending.
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