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Swift takes a different approach to numeric overflow, treating it as an error rather than wrapping:
Cripes, you only need to exceed 2^29-1 in Haskell to overflow into a BigNum.
10k requests/sec in Common Lisp! http://t.co/JjWd4GhF6F Impressive.
"ease of syntax highlighting is in many ways a good proxy of readability" Interesting Rust syntax discussion:
I'm becoming increasingly excited about OwnCloud. I like controlling my own digital home and it becomes more polished with each release.
A kilobyte is 1024B, except when it's 1000B. A word is 32-bits on a 32-bit arch, except x86. I thought programmers eschewed ambiguity!
.@andreassavvides I've been writing a C compiler and I recall you wrote one. What resources did you use and how much work was it?
"Running a script that greps for a class in our CSS to see if it exists in our views." Clever! http://t.co/hnYZRI4QTw
There's something slightly creepy about 'you have visited this page 6 times'. It's not a useful metric.
The past couple of Jenkins releases have included small CSS improvements. It's great to see Jenkins improving in this area.
nmap has a cute feature where hitting enter ('did it hang?') gives you a progress update. A proper progress bar would be better though.
One thing that needs care with Docker is keeping on top of security updates. It's nice to use apt-get to update everything on a server.
Had an interview question once "define OOP". After learning Java, JS and Smalltalk it has become quite hard to do so. ≈Encapsulating state.
The Art of Picking Intel Registers http://t.co/J4jNbJTnoP
It's amazing how well frecency https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/Frecency_algorithm works in Firefox's address bar. It often helps me find what I want.
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