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nose is wonderful for Python tests, including Django. #latetotheparty

On average, 1.4 million people visit 4chan every day. Insane. http://t.co/1KgB5UXN

I'm also impressed that we have reached a point where it's possible to teach students a language using text-to-speech technology.

Duolingo is a superb site for learning languages, and it's self-funded by crowdsourcing translations. I'm impressed.

Note to self: don't skip 'forgotten password' functionality, even on sites for your own use...

Python 3.3 may change the iteration order of dicts in some circumstances: http://t.co/KAsQX3yX -- it was bound to happen eventually.

I have a bizarre evil desire to create a programming language where foo is a reserved word.

Beautiful Soup 4 is superb. There had been a few roadblocks along the way, so it's wonderful to see it alive and improving.

I keep wanting to use #StartSSL to play with SSL certificates, but if *they* get handshake errors, somethings's amiss: https://auth.startssl.com/

Slightly shocked to learn that #Erlang didn't have line numbers in backtraces until late 2011 (Erlang R15)

"[Commit logs] matter, and, like (most) good wine, the more time passes the more valuable they become." http://t.co/mM30aJqI

Blogged: Why #Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language http://t.co/st29ZlX1

In #Java, I can cast int to long, long to Long, but not int to Long. Casting to a wider representation ought to be transitive, surely?

#Java macros (abstract syntax tree rewriting): http://t.co/V6EhaLa1 (Java with 'proper' macros would be such a different language...)

Writing a correct .equals method in #Java is surprisingly subtle: http://t.co/gdApK4G2