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May 17, 2015
libexplain is an interesting library intended to make *nix error codes more friendly: http://t.co/lLMduUDx3y
May 16, 2015
Proposed an improvement to errors in the rust compiler, and a patch landed in less than a day. Seriously impressed.
Suggestion: Syntax errors for malformed `extern` statements could be clearer · Issue #25468 · rust-lang/rust
Suggestion: Syntax errors for malformed `extern` statements could be clearer · Issue #25468 · rust-lang/rust
This is a very minor bit of polish, but I bumped into it. Given the following syntactically invalid code: extern crte hyper; fn main() { println!("hello world") } rustc produces the error: $ rustc ...
May 16, 2015
Emacs tip of the day: (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always) will ensure that M-v always undoes C-v, so you can go back exactly.
May 15, 2015
On a related note, moving to company has been one of the best things I've done to my Emacs configuration this year.
May 15, 2015
company-mode and yasnippet work brilliantly together. Try M-x yasnippet-company to see snippets available. http://t.co/KKdeEFPVtx
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May 15, 2015
"Crates.io is reasonably complex, linking to libgit and such, and still uses roughly 25MB of RAM, constant." Impressive!
May 15, 2015
Rust 1.0 is out! Great language, wonderful community, excellent package tooling. I'm excited to see where it goes!
May 14, 2015
Wow, there are already Visual Studio plugins for Rust! http://t.co/Fy9QdAeLn2 -- A great omen for Rust on Windows.
May 14, 2015
I've tweaked my Emacs configuration default to github-flavoured markdown syntax for .md files. GFM is remarkably common these days.
May 14, 2015
Lies, damned lies, and floating point arithmetic.
May 13, 2015
I'm amused/delighted/intrigued by 'the Zen of Pharo'. Very Pythonesque. http://t.co/tza6P50lXi
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May 13, 2015
OH: If premature optimisation is bad, and we should measure first, why not use bubble sort?
May 12, 2015
It's very rare for HTML/CSS rendering to not be break old sites, but it's interesting that JS changes more aggressively. Eg parseInt("010")
May 10, 2015
Working with Large ML Code Bases https://ahamsandwich.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/working-with-large-ml-code-bases/ Interesting discussion of the relationship of IDEs and community maturity.
Working with Large ML Code Bases
Working with Large ML Code Bases
It’s interesting how tool prevalence and standardization (or lack thereof) for a programming language are very strong indicators of how many people have used it to build significant projects.…
May 10, 2015
Pharo's online API docs are pretty darn good, though still no substitute for the live environment: http://t.co/zM70FUhL8u
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