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  1. Watching evanston's parade get rained on.
  2. Always sad when you see someone doesn't get the internet, who you thought clued in. Ray Bradbury, welcome to the list: http://bit.ly/1qOEZ
  3. Via Reddit, some neat lesser-known Python features at stackoverflow: http://bit.ly/13cDuW
  4. The Theora Thusnelda branch is shaping up quite nicely: http://bit.ly/watkv and http://bit.ly/l1r6W
  5. How is Opera Unite not just a gigantic security hole? http://bit.ly/194Ztp
  6. Circuit analysis in Python: http://bit.ly/rLNGg
  7. @merlyn Re: GPL vs BSD. One could argue, however, that BSD/MIT are more pragmatic, less religious.
  8. Twitter postpones scheduled downtime due to Iran situation: http://bit.ly/OpjwS
  9. If you're interested in Python & the GIL, you should probably watch this talk: http://bit.ly/208DL
  10. Looks like Apple's GCD is using C closures to define the lightweight threads? They added it to clang late last year: http://bit.ly/kx5ra
  11. Apple's Grand Central Dispatch seems interesting (http://bit.ly/1jLfn8) Not much in the way of development details out though.
  12. Interesting: "Software Engineering != Computer Science": http://bit.ly/8zDvD
  13. Official/unofficial Chrome builds for Mac & Linux: http://bit.ly/36WMs
  14. @adunk thanks. I have a few functions where the switch is critical and a driver or two with a duffs device that would be nice to keep :)
  15. @adunk To clarify the last one: is calling switch utilizing functions from a protothread something that is still to be avoided?
  16. @adunk What about calling functions that use switches from a protothread? Thanks for the reply, working on an RPC lib for Lua.
  17. @adunk protothreads: switch statement can be used as long as there isn't a blocking wait within the switch? (docs are diff than website)
  18. Google Wave looks interesting, signup here: http://bit.ly/3C34fX (main page: http://bit.ly/TNZ5R )
  19. Never underestimate the throughput of a bunch of hard drives on the back of a truck: http://bit.ly/L81ri
  20. Keyboard pants: http://bit.ly/12FJck