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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

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.)

I confess I uninstalled the nvidia binary drivers when they didn't work with a new kernel. I haven't looked back, it's been less painful.

Search for code and unbreaking broken images in Pharo: http://t.co/96Qt52c5Du

Designing for developer experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKVPJU3W5Ys -- slow to start, but some interesting Smalltalk IDE discussion and demos.

Value types in Java: http://t.co/Px5bxC7lrC

Following the mypy type annotations discussions with interest. Devil's in the details though, I think it will end up just an editor hint.

I'm excited about the new inline HTML/CSS/JS snippet executor on Stack Overflow. We're living in the future! http://t.co/ABi966RXjB

Learnt today that there's a live git mirror of Emacs bzr: http://t.co/kZ5SfbyKdK -- not as good as ESR's migrated repo though.

Python packaging: Source dists require compilation, eggs don't work with pip, and you can't upload binary Linux wheels to PyPI. Argh!

Blogged: Baby Steps to a C Compiler: http://t.co/dXLVHz6o39

Contrasting Emacs and Pharo (Smalltalk) as complete computing environments: http://t.co/f3tS1P9gWe