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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!

x86 page fault handling is Turing complete: http://t.co/yuPHJX9OKm (bonkers but cool)