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Jun 15, 2015
Smalltalk is an amazingly small language. Even lisp seems relatively complex in comparison.
Jun 15, 2015
.@Atlassian do you provide checksums for your software downloads? I can't see any here:
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Jun 14, 2015
I'm considering bleeding-edge magit (the 'next' branch). The (wonderful) maintainer is now asking for testers:
Magit 2.1.0 will be released on the 1th of July · Issue #1645 · magit/magit
Magit 2.1.0 will be released on the 1th of July · Issue #1645 · magit/magit
Related issues | Update instructions | MAGIT 2.1.0 RELEASED Release steps Bold items are important check-points. Italic items require that someone lends me a hand. announce release date inform main...
Jun 14, 2015
Writing multi-threaded code is remarkably cross-cutting. It's harder to factor out common functionality when you depend on specific locks.
Jun 14, 2015
It's a little sad that changing a comment can trigger a recompile. Compilers should be able to be smarter.
Jun 13, 2015
Lurking in #emacs on freenode is very worthwhile. Today I learnt that `C-h e` is a shortcut for accessing the *Messages* buffer.
Jun 13, 2015
The Rust compiler is getting faster over time: http://t.co/NBeU5YJb7k
Jun 10, 2015
Moose is an excellent Pharo platform to play with, but there's quite a learning curve with image-based programming languages.
Jun 9, 2015
Periodically, I look at projects that challenge the status quo in tech. Today: Hierarchical File Systems are Dead http://t.co/uX8lF4DWhw
Jun 8, 2015
Wonderful to see Swift will be open source! I wasn't interested in investing effort in a proprietary language, so this changes everything.
Jun 8, 2015
Nim treats foo_bar equivalently to fooBar. Accommodating to the point of being boring!
Quick fix, in nim: foo_bar = fooBar Foo_bar = FooBar foo_bar != FooBar That is, ... | Hacker News
Jun 8, 2015
icGrep claims up to 100x speedup over grep http://t.co/DTA6iPzuad -- perhaps an interesting ag alternative?
Jun 8, 2015
http://t.co/pBrC1IERZ4 is a gem of a site exploring sophisticated lisp macros.
Jun 7, 2015
Turns out it's possible to violate safety in Rust with Rc and integer overflow:
Rc is unsafe [mostly on 32-bit targets] due to overflow
Rc is unsafe [mostly on 32-bit targets] due to overflow
The reference counts in RcBox are of type usize, and creating a new Rc increments it with regular addition. In optimized code, where overflow checks are removed, it is possible to overflow this count, allowing a use-after-free. In the old world where values supposedly could not be forgotten (without running the destructor) without actually leaking memory, it would be impossible for this to wrap around: doing so requires 2^X Rcs where X is the pointer width, ergo sizeof(Rc) * 2^X bytes, which o...
Jun 7, 2015
I've put on my retrocomputing hat today and emailed Symbolics regarding purchasing a license for Genera. I'm hoping it's cheap.
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