`C-x TAB' is an underrated command (bound to indent-rigidly). You can give it a numeric +ve or -ve prefix argument, or use it interactively!
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I'm nearly sorted with FSF copyright assignment! Excited!
"most code doesn’t even run once which is why JS engines wait for a function to be run before even fully parsing it" https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2014/01/14/asm-js-aot-compilation-and-startup-performance/
IE will add asm.js optimisations! http://t.co/y9UoXFaXWX This is huge for near-native web performance.
It's amazing that gcc is still finding new ways to significantly improve performance (at least on some chips): http://t.co/lSREwMbhOe
Emacs 24.4.90, the first pretest for 24.5, has been released! http://t.co/qXE7rdxpkz Give it a try!
The LLVM API and docs are really good. I've gone from zero C++ knowledge to a BF to LLVM IR compiler in only a week! https://github.com/Wilfred/Brainfrack/tree/master/llvm
Sadly Arch Linux doesn't have LLDB in its official repos yet (AUR only). It's only a matter of time I hope.
That moment when you find yourself reading LLVM IR to work out what your compiler did. Is that a sign of a difficult bug or poor tooling?
#Emacs package of the day: dired+. Excellent, unintrusive polish on dired. http://t.co/18yQJowLht
Discourse's ability to summarise threads is very clever (e.g. http://t.co/BdiiTFIIui). It stops large discussion threads becoming unwieldy.
Rust: "The good news is that part of Steve's contract is for him to write examples for every type and function"—if only more langs did this!
Why does IEEE 754 standard defines 16,777,214 32-bit floating point values as NaNs? http://t.co/sQEK69oU7e
Avail is a very interesting project exploring 'articulate programming', focusing on near natural language syntax: https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/introduction/index.html
"if you are developing mission-critical s/w then there is absolutely no question you should use some other system" https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/documentation/faq.html
"we know that forM will not change the number of elements in the container by leaning on the Traversable laws alone" https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Prelude710/FTP
Super exciting to see Rust preparing for v1.0 this year! http://t.co/OutYC0P6ST
LLVM's opt is very effective. I had a bug in my compiler such that it didn't compile all side effects, and opt removed the entire program!
When using a programming language with a scary grammar, a decent error message makes the world of difference: http://t.co/rG5YvgWQlK
Exciting new features in C++17: http://t.co/Lgp0ytaCbj but also really nice to see misfeatures removed!
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