Defining a kernel of web browser functionality: http://t.co/mxMv5wQM0z really nifty.
miniblog.
.@bruceconnor saw rich-minority today, I was wondering how it differs from diminish other than having a brilliant name?
"for every polynomial-time algorithm you have, there is an exponential algorithm that I would rather run." Alan Perlis
Really interesting discussion of Scheme macros: http://t.co/BCixeolGnk
I think the ease of parsing is a big reason why so many lisp implementations exist. Parsing is much less fun than semantics.
Flycheck (already a must-have package) is getting even better! http://t.co/VjM6AKXT8I
Very approachable article on parsing CSS with Parsec: http://t.co/Y25fGXU587
"A distributed system is one where the failure of a machine you've never heard of stops you from being able to do your job."
Hat tip to @bruceconnor finding the cause of a byte-compilation bug that disappears when you use edebug!
Emacs' help has a rather simple display of syntax tables -- just lists of integers. Not terribly helpful.
Template Haskell is comparable to readermacros: http://t.co/fSFAmXZo4P (short worthwhile read)
Wow, http://t.co/E3bT0HCa3l was served by a lisp machine until 2001! http://t.co/pYcwWalg1K
Trying to wrap my head around syntactic closures.
You can go a really long way in elisp without ever writing a major mode. It's hard to find a language which doesn't have one already!
Yowza, Julia's Emacs mode has support for Emacs 22!
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