A rant about lisp machines and contrasting with other systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880821
miniblog.
Interesting stats on how many changes are necessary for each Rust version: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/616e89860446eb2a6732 (~25% total LOC typically)
Nifty, a command-line pastebin: http://t.co/JHoae6BO7i
"There's no fairness in love, war and language benchmarks."
"A more correct but less catchy term would therefore be NoACID." http://t.co/6ZYOMfj5t0
Safely chaining messages in Smalltalk (cf Maybe monad): http://t.co/pRkkq1XCxi
You can go to programming Q&A sites too early in the investigation, but you miss out by not using them at all.
Docker 1.0 is out! We live in exciting times. Also interesting to learn that Docker uses kernel APIs rather than LXC now.
Proper 64-bit integers for JS: https://github.com/dcodeIO/Long.js
Confusingly, moment.day returns the day of the week, and moment.date returns the day of the month. Cripes.
Python 2.7.7 is out, including 'HTTPS is now used by default when connecting to PyPI.'. Hurrah!
Ooh, it's also neat to see that @CoverallsApp comments on pull requests regarding coverage changes: https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle/pull/6
Landing arbitrary size integers to Trifle Lisp's master branch! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle/pull/6
Ooh, nifty Emacs trick of the day: in eshell, just enter `magit-status .` to open a magit buffer for the current directory.
I'm coming to the conclusion that good collaboration tools are the most important part of a technology toolset.
Continuous Deployment is the 'put your money where your mouth is' of software testing.
I think there's a corollary of Zawinski's law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read PDF files."
Blogged: Trifle Lisp: Designing a Numeric System: http://t.co/Oy0eC67yjP
I've seen Emacs being used as an init process, but this is something else: http://t.co/xboo7xLdUR Squeak Smalltalk as an OS!
If you ever try running code that's syntactically invalid, you probably need a better editor.
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