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#emacs on Freenode is full of friendly, helpful people. I've occasionally seen users get help from the maintainer of the mode they're using!

Just made the mistake of reading comments on some YouTube videos. It would be really had to satirise them, they're that bad.

One of my blog posts has been translated to Chinese! http://t.co/LZcSxMFqej Amazing! The content is F/OSS licensed, so it's all legit.

Toying with a node.js project. Feels rather like manually coding in continuation-passing style.

"TECO [..] is one of the most powerful editors [but] its command language is the one of the most rebarbative" http://t.co/d78Ba9bLBa

Whilst I agree that s-expression syntax is not a global optimum, I've dealt with many obtuse syntaxes that are worse.

An Emacs regexp for markdown links: "\[\(.*\)\](\(.*\))". Yikes.

"It is a fundamental fact of music that log₂3 is irrational" http://t.co/yyD9At09LI

It's funny how many pictures I see in tweets are just quotes that don't fit in a tweet.

The Emacs stackexchange has a lot of elisp hackers far more knowledgeable than me, and I'm learning tons. Let me know if you want an invite.

GHC's documentation is well-written and fascinating, here's how the heap is laid out:

32-bit MongoDB has limits on total storage size *and* switches off journalling. Fortunately, it's blunt and upfront about it.

It's a sobering thought that most languages stick with the package manager they start out with, regardless of merits.

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" The total number of x86 instructions is well above one thousand." Cripes! http://t.co/1ZhtNsojZR