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RPython is fun, but it feels quite different to plain old Python.

I've never seen the benefit of online stores that give the option of view 10/20/50/all per page. Just show me everything you have.

Gobsmacked to see pandoc produce great results from latex to docx. Really impressive.

@KrystalHosting you are sending me unwanted marketing emails without unsubscribe links. Emailing contact@krystal.co.uk bounces. Please fix.

Microsoft are planning an iPad version of Office for 'fall 2014': http://t.co/2ttceAU7le . The times, they are a'changing.

DRM isn't broken, and it works well: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qtnxhuojytbjbr04ci3cowrmtehsy324 Deep insight from Ian Hickson

The tragedy of backwards compatibility: Excel still considers 1900 to be leap year and doesn't plan to fix it: http://t.co/c52HXkaiEP

Multi-monitor is still so hit-and-miss on Linux with X. Roll on Wayland. Competition is good anyway.

Good comments > no comments >> wrong comments

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.