There is no sorting algorithm that is O(n log n) in time, O(1) in space and also stable. Pick your poison.
miniblog.
Writing a 'natural sort' for clothing sizes ("S" > "XS", "medium" > "small") is more tractable than I'd initially feared.
Amazing ambitious Mozilla project, SWF in JS: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/
Turns out Emacs' org-babel allows literate programming a la tangle and weave. Worth playing with this weekend (:
ag is a *fast* replacement for ack (better than grep) https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher -- 0.14s vs 8.49s in my testing.
Abusing Django templatetags to calculations http://t.co/a3xHbUHF (entertainingly evil!)
Remote code execution in Rails: http://t.co/eDStohrq ouch.
Dr Seuss on parser monads: http://t.co/IVyA8wYy
@valueof reproduced a bug on http://t.co/R9EYzw1m https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/797#issuecomment-11885403 -- do you take bribes to reopen tickets? :)
GMail is giving me adverts for supercomputers and foie gras. Never mind accurate advertising, I feel somewhat complimented.
It's also interesting to see 'Quick Answers' on gov.uk (e.g https://www.gov.uk/maternity-paternity-pay-leave/y/2015-03-02/yes/yes/yes/600.0-week) -- reminiscent of Reactive Documents http://t.co/xzeOFx2W
I'm amazed that the Directgov website used to cover bee-keeping: http://t.co/fB2LzosX -- not a big or important group of voters I'd think!
VideoLAN's stance on patents http://t.co/EjTMvKhy (blunt!)
Taking a Linode instance for a spin.
Interesting discussion on the motivations behind Go: http://t.co/JMCcWdro
Using a Stack Overflow style Q&A site for @webfaction (web host) works really well. It saves so many duplicate queries.
Generally, you can trust GC to do the right thing. PHP has had some nasty garbage-collection bugs though (e.g. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50027 )
Hiccup, the Clojure HTML rendering library, doesn't escape by default. Yikes.
Delighted to see a new version of #Jekyll released this December. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jekyll-rb/EavLPfiLX7k/discussion shows how quiet the project became.
I'm surprised proprietary password storage apps gain traction -- you really want to see what the app is doing with your sensitive data.
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