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To anyone who does not know, Pieter Hintjens is the CEO of iMatix, where they build AMQP, ZMQ etc.

Take care /u/PieterH.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888 3. https://twitter.com/hintjens

If you have some time to spare, watch this talk "The astonishing simplicity of everything" by Neil Turok. He explains all this so beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9lgX8GaE

1984?

> They come with Windows by default, but you can pick Ubuntu instead and shave about $100 off the price.

How awesome!

Reasons to reject "if/else and switch as expressions" looks very naive. Can't believe it's coming from Chris Lattner. A lot of languages like Python, Haskell and Rust got this right.

Bryan O'Sullivan (Haskell, Facebook) mentioned in a talk that he got into the whole Haskell ecosystem while interning for Simon P.J. (the author of this book) and this book helped him get started back then.

I don't normally do this, buts hard to not nitpick this time.

Why would you split a story into 50 tweets? Its the hardest way to read content.

Every time I see this pattern, a part of me dies inside.

    collection = []
    for i in data:
        collection.append(fn(i))

Why not just

    [fn(i) for i in data] ?

Does knowing any of this make you a better programmer? I'd say no.

Should you be using any of this in production code? No

The next programmer even if he is a really good one might not know that particular esoteric trick.

I'm not trying to vote down or anything, but what is the point? Most of it look like language design warts to me. Most of them should have thrown exceptions and errored out.

Now I'm loving the idea of static typing a lot more.

I feel that we should do it.

First step: Learn Haskell :D

There is a very good criticism here: http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandthew... and I have to agree to all of it.

The last time I installed bittorrent on my mac, it came with a chrome extension malware. I used to really love BTSync, but now I'm certainly going to ditch it.

For once again proving the point that unless its free software, its not worth it.

Rocket science for the Europeans, still miles and yards for Americans.

Use the inbuilt info reader.

    (info "Org")

And then look for babel

Thank you. I was really wondering what is so special about a GUI vim. I thought that exited for a while.

Yep. Everything about Aerospike so far have been filled with buzzwords. There was a flash talk by an employee of theirs recently at a conference in Bangalore and it was just marketing BS. I'm still skeptical.

That was some valuable tip. Thank you.

Sarcasm?

After all these years..

I'm happy that there is no 'Career Objective' section. This website[1] is down now but I think the name convey the idea.

1. http://whatthefuckismycareerobjective.com/

Can we all be good netizens and torrent rather than overload Archive servers? Not enough seeders right now.

Its a surprisingly awesome s/w for a '2.0'

I know its stupid, but I just love arch. Moving to anything else just don't seem right.

How did ubuntu fix font issues? That code should be FOSS! Let me see how I can make that run on arch ;)

PS: I use a very minimal arch machine with i3 wm (the most awesome WM ever and I pretty much hate gnome and unity religiously. I think KDE is a bloat) I'll soon have a look at it again, and will post here if something good comes along.

As of now, I use a mac for the hw but the linux experience on this box is shitty.

I installed archlinux, and still havent got the fonts right. Its so much strain on the eyes and I had to go back to mac.

Why so many regular expressions everywhere? 0_o

So now that NSA can steal private keys, all the logs they collected over the years can be decrypted?

Just swipe it to the side a few times and it will be gone.

I went through the exact same thought process before submission. Happy that its all good now.

Magit can do most common actions with one or 2 strokes, like `cc` for commit, `ca` for amend etc. Push, pull fetch etc work like a breeze and wont lock up emacs till its complete.

Sometimes I forget the keys, then I either enable menu bar mode to quickly look it up or switch to eshell for a while