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Firefox's awesome bar works superbly, but I really miss being able to do a textual search on the text content of the page in my history.

Zero vs one indexed arrays and acknowledging programming history: http://t.co/0FJ2HUDAj0 really great read.

Built my first HTTP service using Haskell: https://github.com/Wilfred/chatty -- it was an adventure. The Haskell learning curve is still steep.

As the new gTLDs come into force, there's a risk of confusion. Solution: append an extension to distinguish between companies, orgs &c.

Playing with You Can't JS under pressure: http://t.co/PDnaksaAGE It's a *lot* easier with a JS interpreter open. REPL coding strikes again!

Following PEP 8 is like getting your 5 fruit and vegetables per day. It's a worthwhile goal, but missing slightly won't kill you.

Given a nullable column with a uniqueness constraint, should you allow multiple rows with NULL? Depends who you ask :/

fileinput: http://t.co/cRh1rl1evR lets you iterate over files as command line arguments, or stdin. Handy, just does the right thing.

I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language: http://t.co/MTnGzhZUTh

What's the process for fixing spelling mistakes on PEPs? #python

One of the fun things about machine learning is you have large datasets. A naive algorithm often isn't fast enough and forces optimisation.

Python 3.4: Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter. http://t.co/fFpbGDyoqJ Hurrah!

Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance: http://t.co/E5T3G5XBdT

Current status: installing setuptools but getting the error 'no module named setuptools'. Sheesh.

Deleted just over 150,000 lines of legacy code today without any loss of functionality!