Ouch. Django (prior to 1.5) treated {% if True %} as looking up a variable called `True`, which is falsey because it's not present.
miniblog.
Knyle Style Sheets: An interesting approach to writing literate CSS. http://t.co/yp1y4uPnbP
I'm beginning to think that a 'sufficiently powerful language' is one where you don't need 'if' built in. Examples: Lisp, Haskell, Smalltalk
You know you're a lisper when you have multiple people emailing you to say you're missing a paren in a blog post.
I'm not convinced of the merits of paying for VPN in a privacy-friendly state. I'd only be accessing sites that keep logs their end.
Today's experiment: trying to find a single program on my Arch Linux that has the same version as our Ubuntu server box. Failing miserably!
Internal and external iterators: http://t.co/9CTCcg0coV superb blog post.
VimL apparently reduces developers to swearing angrily: http://t.co/RDGLKHYYdF sadly, elisp wasn't measured :-P
Blogged: Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming: http://t.co/7HoNoU8BHl #emacs #elisp
A rather blunt but interesting criticism of OCaml: http://t.co/wSMQd8HKIH
Putting my email (with reCAPTCHA protection from harvesting) online was a great decision. Interesting people sometimes reach out to me.
Ixquick looks like an interesting search engine for the paranoid. Based in Holland and no logging.
Just discovered nosetests has a --failed flag that lets you re-run only the failed tests. Brilliant, wish I knew about it earlier.
http://t.co/nhf4TJRw49 fantastic discussion of video encoding techniques. Would have been very handy when I was studying Computer Science.
Some days CSS is friendly, and some days you feel you succeeded in spite of it.
Python tip of the day: add #egg=package_name to your pip requirements URLs, to save downloading every time you do `pip install`.
What does it mean to 'own' an open source project? http://t.co/tYnQ9Vdzi9
OH: "a refreshing desert in the oasis of referential transparency" referring to the excellent Debug.Trace.trace #haskell
I haven't taken a side on the 'twice means you should factor out the commanality' vs 'only when you have 3+'. Depends on the code.
.@duolingo is an astoundingly good website for learning foreign languages. They offer 6 European languages, and Asian languages are coming!
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