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Discovered C-S-backspace for kill-whole-line in Emacs today. No more C-a C-k hammering!

"If the CLOS you are using to run the CLOS that implements the CLOS uses the CLOS you are running[…]". Lisp programmers *get* recursion.

Yikes. On Python 2 `foo = lambda: 5; print foo > 6, foo() > 6` gives 'True False'. Hides tricky bugs. Another reason to move to Python 3.

Today I learnt you can make Emacs persist formatting to the file itself: http://t.co/qPOcINxAZw

Python packaging still isn't effortless. I'm wrestling with a project that worked fine on distribute, but it's a pain to upgrade.

There seems to be a small intersection between the ability to make beautiful frontends and beautiful backends. Practice your weaknesses.

@jessenoller I'd like to copy the Python code of conduct (largely verbatim) for a project. What's the license on it?

'A good place to look for information on this is http://t.co/juAjJ0JfMd';. True, but overly general to the point of being useless.

Smart Cities: Buggy and Brittle: http://t.co/Z4udTgmoUs

Implementing coroutines with call/cc: http://t.co/kl2qv9borx concise, elegant, and mind-bending.

Set up @papertrailapp and quickly found brute force SSH attempts on a server I run -- impressed! (Of course, I should be checking logs more)

The latest gnome-screenshot doesn't offer any dialogs by default. Argh. You can still get the old behaviour with `$ gnome-screenshot -i`

Scored 2200 on http://t.co/65COeJmj6T . Spot the programming language snob :)

I've seen some poor legacy code from time to time, but indenting with a prime number of spaces is a new low.

Coming to jinja2 after working with Django templates is wonderful. I miss doing dict lookup in Django.