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Fascinated to learn that casino gaming software has a regulatory requirement for reproducible builds:

"To be Turing-complete is to be logically inconsistent." http://t.co/KwuMenJ8mT

I've written a definitive guide to the different ELPA archives: http://t.co/VzMg8hAfHh -- have I missed anything?

So, what editor would you like to edit your .vimrc in? There's an Emacs package for that! https://github.com/mcandre/vimrc-mode (It's not even April 1st!)

"It is less well known that unsafePerformIO is not type safe." http://t.co/Tdtjr7KuCQ

It's also great to see that Aquamacs is discussing beautifying its git history following the Emacs git migration:

Emacs 24.4 should be released on Monday!

Aggressive Auto-Indentation: http://t.co/agVLTuXSp6 As a novice, Emacs indentation was an annoyance to me. These days, it's near psychic.

The Emacs package ecosystem is growing very healthily! http://t.co/sBwiUOBnwO

It's interesting how often rewriting functions to use best practices results in mysterious bugs disappearing. It's a good sign they're wise.

Jon Skeet: Humanity: Epic Fail: http://t.co/80fouCkpiU

"SBCL is frequently used to compile very large, programmatically-generated, functions" http://t.co/kWjM6SxFRf Compilation time matters"

Found a bug with php-mode today, and been hacking on julia-mode. Turns out writing a full-featured major mode is major task (esp non-lisps).

Firefox 33 fixes a 10 year old bug! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237623 I've never felt the need to have a clear bug backlog, bytes are cheap.

"The [Forth CPU] got wrong answers on division if the divisor was odd, and they couldn't afford to redo [it] so it shipped [.] with errata"!