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  1. Sigh. Whenever I hack without unit tests, I learn to regret it - even if it's just 20 lines of throw-away data analysis.
  2. @Nattl (very, very) rough outline of how one could use select to approach this: http://pastebin.com/m246d6291
  3. talking about code on twitter is like trying to strip down a car's engine through its exhaust pipe.
  4. @Nattl you could detect closed connections by selecting() on the socket with a timeout, and then tracking protocol timeouts manually...
  5. @Nattl ... then track timeouts manually in the state machine. meh - 140 chars manifestly inadequate.
  6. @Nattl hmm... different timeouts for different stages... i'd use settimeout to make sure i don't block too long on read...
  7. Re-reading Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius - perverted, brilliant misfit at war with the world - is still my favourite character in fiction.
  8. @morganpyne Yes, living in Dunedin, and sadly contemplating the rubbery, tasteless nuggets of compressed cheddar sold here as parmigiano...
  9. @Nattl depends on what you want to time out. ;) You could use settimeout on the socket explicitly...
  10. @morganpyne I'm jealous! Dunedin turns out to be a trackless good-food desert, where gourmands like me starve in the streets...
  11. Is there such a thing as a good deli in Dunedin? I need proper parmigiano reggiano, dammit!
  12. More domain migration woes: Google is living up to its reputation for being unresponsive regarding a Google Apps domain alias problem.
  13. Sigh. Comments on my blog are out of action until Disqus moves my domain...
  14. Yay - just noticed that Slovenia now lets foreigners register .si domains - just nabbed corte.si.
  15. When I get immersed in an interesting project, I drift out of my local timezone. 3am is bedtime, getting to bed at 6am is staying up late.
  16. Detailed comparison of Go and Algol68. Don't agree with the conclusion that Go is a bad language, though. http://bit.ly/3G8uCD
  17. Suspect I could replace House and his team with a database of symptoms, some Python and a robot to do lumbar punctures.
  18. Playing with Google's Go - I think it is the first new language with real promise in more than 15 years: http://golang.org/
  19. Eric S. Raymond has become such a hideous parody that it feels cruel to even make fun of him: http://bit.ly/kZ918
  20. Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves: http://bit.ly/2lZXJP