@hober I'm a big fan of your hl-sexp Emacs package, but I hit a minor bug. Where should I file an issue / send patches?
miniblog.
I've never liked arguments of the form OPTIMIZE=y or FAST=y. Why would I want slow? Clearer would be DEBUG_LEVEL i.e. show the tradeoff.
Fun with deeply obscure Python multithreading shutdown bugs, circa Python 1.5! http://t.co/6f9hTXiNQg
Django 1.7 is out! Many nice little features added, such as JsonResponse: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/request-response/#django.http.JsonResponse
Hilarious discussion on r/Emacs where vim is highlighting *elisp* better than Emacs itself! http://t.co/ZbQ6zViv6S (see screenshot)
Emacs command of the day: eshell-life-is-too-much. Kills eshell. Many Emacs commands are quirky but fantastically memorable.
Really nifty tool for browsing git history on Emacs: git-timemachine! https://github.com/pidu/git-timemachine
Learnt today that elisp's apply works with keyword arguments, so (apply 'some-func '(:foo 1 :bar 2)) works as expected. Handy.
Turns out a Scheme implementation is not required to support arbitrary size integers. I'd assumed it was guaranteed. http://t.co/P4fJ1nKJ7e
I'm really enjoying the book A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation but reading pre-ANSI C is *weird*.
MELPA lists an impressive 12 backends for company-mode. I'm considering switching.
Why would you use `do { .... } while (0)` in C?: http://t.co/34h3evCees
Taking it to Th’emacs: http://t.co/0N0lyDcfM2 The overlap between Smalltalk style systems and Emacs is substantial and rarely discussed.
TIL that common lisp has delimited GOTO using tagbody: http://t.co/NLReyvSN4R . With hindsight it's not surprising (hypermultiparadigm!)
"Wish driven development"
I'm slowly realising how big plan9's influence is on Go. Go has a custom assembler syntax and calling convention: http://t.co/8AHuCJZaWF
Learnt a fascinating, non-obvious (to me) fact that resizing a vector's memory by a factor of 2 is optimally bad https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/FBVector.md
I'm excited about the release of Emacs 24.4, but I think the bzr->git migration is equally exciting.
"The fundamental problem is that programming languages package management is decentralized." http://t.co/GbjqLKxph5
I'm *really* impressed with CPython's bigint performance. It's beating Julia, which uses GMP! (I imagine Julia will overtake in future.)
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