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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.
Jun 7, 2015
Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables.
Jun 6, 2015
Heterogeneous codebase optimisation with LLVM! Serious compiler framework leverage there. http://t.co/pZq60Kmt1A http://t.co/qpZINav2fd
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Jun 6, 2015
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction http://t.co/y4gI5M6pRy fantastic cogent discussion of programming challenges in IF.
Jun 5, 2015
Brunch is a convention-over-configuration alternative to Gulp with a focus on high performance incremental builds:
brunch-guide/content/en/chapter01-whats-brunch.md at master · brunch/brunch-guide
brunch-guide/content/en/chapter01-whats-brunch.md at master · brunch/brunch-guide
A comprehensive guide to Brunch. Contribute to brunch/brunch-guide development by creating an account on GitHub.
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