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"Investor storytime is when someone pays you to tell them how rich they'll get when you finally put ads on your site" http://t.co/IRtvnE5VhL
Ooh, warehouse is looking like a fantastic web fronted to PyPI: https://warehouse.python.org/ #python
Interesting to see how many builds are running on @travisci at any one time: http://t.co/Va5rZPueTC
The six levels of metrics to collect for an application: http://t.co/O4us2vJOpP
"both proving that mental poker is impossible, and then giving a protocol to do it securely"! http://t.co/yXBRLHY4Ox
Text boxes are the best default search tool, but I like a structured search too. 'Show all the paperbacks by $AUTHOR in stock in my library'
Linux trivia of the day: `FOO=$FOO command` is not the same as `command`:
I am really, really impressed that pt (written in Go) has surpassed ag (written in C) in performance:
Writing an interpreter is an amazing exercise in defensive programming. There are a *lot* of things that can go wrong.
Really interesting discussion of the performance costs of conditions/resumable exceptions wrt Rust: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/003815.html
Excited to see that Read-Eval-Print-λove will be coming back! The first issues were excellent. cc @fogus
Blogged: RPython for Fun and Profit: http://t.co/13yRjuUjBg
"Objects of different types except numbers are ordered by their type names" -- gah. Not something I miss in Python 3.
I'm extremely impressed by HippyVM's performance numbers: 2x faster than Facebook's HHVM! http://t.co/ct8RjkMnLd
Writing a stdlib is hard. Lots of old-fashioned computer science plus an interpreter which is still buggy!
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