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Johnny Cache: http://t.co/2B3xI1GTEE is a much better solution for Django caching anyway, as it caches all redundant reads.

Argh. Django's .get_profile() caches the UserProfile, which can cause surprises if you're modifying the profile elsewhere.

London Clojure dojo was excellent. I enjoy whenever someone says "but this is Emacs, so we can simply..."

Ideally, commenting out any part of your code will produce a test failure. Mutation testing works on this principle.

We're getting 16Gb/second data transfer to our colocation! (By jumping in a car and physically moving the hard disks...)

Memorable names for characters: http://t.co/oQy2rbC9m4 -- brilliant.

I really like Python 3, but `print "foo"` is burned into brain. Argh.

I'm using a library today that's Python 3 only. A sign of the times.

@sanityinc I emailed a chap about adding MELPA counts to http://t.co/B48H9pUeq9 . What's the best JSON file on MELPA for him to acCess?

"It's opt-out, but it's easy to change." We really need objective usability measures to be applied to ensure it really is easy.

Merd has a remarkable syntax. `sin x+y` parses as `sin(x + y)` but `sin x + y` parses as `sin(x) + y`.

I've been learning backbone this week. I find my JS is more robust (and often works first time!) when it's all neatly separated.

Firefox's scratchpad is very interesting. The Ctrl-I to inspect a result feels very smalltalky.

Chrome is taking over the world: http://t.co/Iy0qjpPvpm

"Being able to write APL programs doesn't normally imply that you are able to read APL programs – not even your own!"