Elasticsearch gets better with every release. 1.2 has been very reliable on our write-heavy cluster with big datasets (1.1 struggled).
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I have helped several companies move to git, but nothing in the same league as ESR's amazing Emacs migration. http://t.co/MLbREbAz9j
Julia's a lovely language to hack on. I hope it gains the traction it deserves.
Writing decent indentation for a major mode is very hard. You need a non-trivial performant parser. I dare not look at perl-mode or C++.
I often get interesting emails when I blog.After my highlighting post, I learnt about nifty performance highlighting: http://t.co/Rp3sLxOoaH
"This patch is made 100% of completely irredeemable pure evil." Parsing elisp is actually pretty difficult.
"We had more luck than anyone deserves with things working out just enough to suffice and do what we did." -- Wozniak http://t.co/JWszdkYIVA
pcre2el has this awesome feature that converts huge emacs regexps into rx forms. It's indispensable. http://t.co/1Y2ZauUOXi
Fascinating and well-researched discussion of hashing approaches for Julia:
"bash is seldom compiled with ASLR" http://t.co/luCDG0pgow yikes!
Git 2.2 includes an anonymize feature that enables you to share buggy proprietary repos! Invaluable and clever. http://t.co/HtiX35X5E4
A few minor bumps in setup, but I now have Shipyard set up with Docker! Seems to work well. http://t.co/7NW6L9Z3mv
Why don't major modes just inspect the faces? http://t.co/LGkmcCYQlN -- really interesting answers about Emacs syntax highlighting.
Considering abandoning my http://t.co/AoAj7NWsen in favour of init.el. I find org-babel code less hackable, and many tools write to init.el.
I've finally removed the third-party-lisp directory from my .emacs.d! *Everything* is now installed in ~/.emacs.d/elpa and it's wonderful.
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