"The most interesting point [..] is that Whatsapp now send more messages than the entire global SMS system combined" http://t.co/HpGaTNvQce
miniblog.
"The vast majority of repositories are modified only in the year they are created, and they’re never touched again." http://t.co/rZCoeaWDTh
Re-reading http://t.co/yAjeBIfXVP and finding new things that I thought were true.
I've rewritten the eval() of Trifle lisp to use a stack: https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle/pull/3 It was an adventure, and highly educational!
A further magit tip: Press `x' in the log to check out that commit.
Magit continues to impress me. The UI it provides for bisecting in git is superb. #emacs http://t.co/3SRUren1J9
'Knowledge archaeology':
Whilst it's usually the case that a new version of software is an overall improvement, Wikipedia edits seem to be less clear-cut.
A programming language should support any unicode symbols in programs, but only require ASCII characters that can be typed on any keyboard
"frequently unique pointers end up misused due to the overly sweet syntax". Syntax is hard!
Rather than using gensym with let, Nimrod can detect when code has side effects and can't be duplicated: http://t.co/PlX8KfRBq4 Clever.
Great collection of smalltalk and lisp demos on HN:
Learnt today that Checker (for Java) provides pluggable type systems. They've also annotated the whole JDK! Impressive.
The best looking library website I've seen in some time: http://t.co/gpCJ3scEIh
"PyBozoCrack is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load written in Python."
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