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Aug 29, 2015
Entertaining discussion of adding the keyword ennnnnd to Ruby:
Feature #5054: Compress a sequence of ends - Ruby - Ruby Issue Tracking System
Redmine
Aug 29, 2015
Benchmarking my compiler project for forthcoming blog post. Turns out that helloworld is not a great performance test! Surprise!
Aug 26, 2015
TIL about sorting networks, a very fast sorting technique for fixed size inputs. Relevant SO question: http://t.co/Tmudqgj9a5
Aug 26, 2015
Emacs command of the day: rename-uniquely. Great if you want to hold on to a *Help* buffer whilst looking at the help for other things.
Aug 26, 2015
Diff is a blunt instrument that don't understand syntax. E.g. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f5db4b31b31504a1058339bc00488bf56ad1f0aa the line wrapping makes it hard to see what was added.
Making sure you're not a bot!
Aug 25, 2015
Splint is an impressive GPL licensed lint tool for C programs. Features include: http://t.co/IIYEQhvguq
Aug 24, 2015
It's amazing how many more PRs a package receives once it's on MELPA. They're often high quality patches too.
Aug 23, 2015
Rust nightly is now warning about upcoming changes to the type checker. There are some (obscure) soundness holes:
rfcs/text/0000-projections-lifetimes-and-wf.md at projection-and-lifetimes · nikomatsakis/rfcs
rfcs/text/0000-projections-lifetimes-and-wf.md at projection-and-lifetimes · nikomatsakis/rfcs
RFCs for changes to Rust. Contribute to nikomatsakis/rfcs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 22, 2015
Why did the minidisc not succeed because outside Japan? http://t.co/Djbxm9d5nP
Aug 22, 2015
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't: http://t.co/AOrXRumJn5 Great data-driven analysis of the effect of the internet on creative industries.
Aug 22, 2015
Interesting summary of pain points using Rust in production: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/production-user-research-summary/2530 (apparently early adopters use emacs/vim/ST/atom)
Production user research summary
Production user research summary
Hey, team. During the week of July 13 members of the Rust core and community teams sat down over four meetings with a number of individuals using Rust in corporate and startup environments. The intent was to establish relationships, gather requirements, and otherwise solicit feedback to inform the project roadmap. These were amazing calls, and we were very thankful (and kind of astonished) that so many people made the so much time for us. I've tried to frontload this with the most pertinent i...
Aug 21, 2015
Discovered that LLVM's lli command has a --force-interpreter option! If you're debugging your LLVM IR, it give significantly more info.
Aug 21, 2015
Inspirations For Eve reading list https://gist.github.com/jamii/8957881c8eaa4035f4ae hqs some fascinating papers on language design. Definitely a project to watch!
Inspirations for Eve
Inspirations for Eve
Inspirations for Eve. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Aug 21, 2015
I keep expecting to reach a point where I'm happy with my .emacs.d. Instead I get better at elisp and experiment with more workflow helpers.
Aug 20, 2015
A basic major-mode is just a syntax table and font lock keywords. I've done a revamp of llvm-mode: http://t.co/vqf6Yx1EIv #emacs
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