Today's experiment: trying to find a single program on my Arch Linux that has the same version as our Ubuntu server box. Failing miserably!
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Internal and external iterators: http://t.co/9CTCcg0coV superb blog post.
VimL apparently reduces developers to swearing angrily: http://t.co/RDGLKHYYdF sadly, elisp wasn't measured :-P
Blogged: Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming: http://t.co/7HoNoU8BHl #emacs #elisp
A rather blunt but interesting criticism of OCaml: http://t.co/wSMQd8HKIH
Putting my email (with reCAPTCHA protection from harvesting) online was a great decision. Interesting people sometimes reach out to me.
Ixquick looks like an interesting search engine for the paranoid. Based in Holland and no logging.
Just discovered nosetests has a --failed flag that lets you re-run only the failed tests. Brilliant, wish I knew about it earlier.
http://t.co/nhf4TJRw49 fantastic discussion of video encoding techniques. Would have been very handy when I was studying Computer Science.
Some days CSS is friendly, and some days you feel you succeeded in spite of it.
Python tip of the day: add #egg=package_name to your pip requirements URLs, to save downloading every time you do `pip install`.
What does it mean to 'own' an open source project? http://t.co/tYnQ9Vdzi9
OH: "a refreshing desert in the oasis of referential transparency" referring to the excellent Debug.Trace.trace #haskell
I haven't taken a side on the 'twice means you should factor out the commanality' vs 'only when you have 3+'. Depends on the code.
.@duolingo is an astoundingly good website for learning foreign languages. They offer 6 European languages, and Asian languages are coming!
The best article on bitcoin that I've ever read: http://t.co/8teMG1ocFg
testdisk is an awesome utility when your partition table has been wiped out. It can work out what your partitions were.
To be clear: I love Arch, but the aggressive rolling release produces some interesting problems sometimes.
I once read that it's good for you to have a script that regularly deletes random files, to learn about linux internals. Or, Arch Linux.
Elisp: great for metaprogramming, but tricky if you need a `print` function! http://t.co/8IlxqNvlE0
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