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I don't understand long legal disclaimers at the end of emails. If they're of legal worth, why d[o|id]n't they occur on letters?

If you're using Django with nose, `python manage.py test -v 3 --collect-only` is great for seeing where nose looks for tests.

"Unknown error, please try again". Argh, the perennial problem of black box cloud services.

A fun part of writing a lisp is snaffling great ideas from other dialects. http://t.co/cFBaa7vLke

Woah, new Twitter web UI. Most of the time I end up using third party clients though.

I suppose it was inevitable, but I'm still taken aback to learn about password cracking as a service: https://www.cloudcracker.com/

@melpa_emacs happy to report that MELPA is on http://t.co/b4PoC3L1P8 :)

TinEye lets you find other versions of the same image. How long before someone builds a facial recognition search engine?

No software is ever finished, though some reaches maturity.

IPython's ability to run shell commands rather reminds me of eshell and the lisp listener on lisp machines.

Ed, sam, vi and Emacs on minimalism in design:

"An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" is the best compiler intro I've ever seen. Now, to find a decent x86 asm reference...

Released Trifle lisp 0.2! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle#v02 You can almost write basic useful programs!

So, apparently lisp machines had versioned file systems. It's a royal shame they haven't become popular on Linux systems.

Turns out that implementing a Common Lisp style condition system is nontrivial.