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Proof by repeated assertion.

The fun thing about maintaining crufty code is that you end up making a net reduction in code, even as you add small features.

With PEP 414 (permitting u"foo") in Python 3.3, it's just a matter of time before Python libraries are Python 2.X or Python 3.3+.

Ever wondered what happens if you make ~40,000 AJAX requests? With #jquery bug http://t.co/MNuDxIoF, you can find out! (Fixed in 1.7)

#Git 1.8 is significantly improving push behaviour. The previous behaviour is, well, involved: http://t.co/YLIaiI9J

Whilst A/B testing is a fantastic tool, I'm amazed to see that some online retailers are using it for price.

#python `1 in [1,0] == True` => False is a horrible obscure gotcha http://t.co/fLjMXzir

I'm reaching a point where I can almost just use #Firefox's built-in dev tools without Firebug. The performance improvement is worth having.

http://t.co/U37Q4Ze4 -- beautiful or unmaintainable JavaScript, depending on how it's used :)

I am amazed at how many tools build on top of #JavaScript to offer different syntax or semantics: http://t.co/5g7JXOjl

Debugging a memory leak and your swap partition is too small? LVM can save you!

Realisation of the day: add the current time to your shell prompt, and you never need to write `$ time slow_command` again.

If foo.bar() mutates foo, it probably shouldn't also return foo. It violates the principle of least surprise when reading `baz = foo.bar()`

#emacs etags on an abitrary git repository: $ cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel); rm -f TAGS; ack -f --print0 | xargs --null etags -a