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Re:Irish Economy grew by 26.3% in 2015 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:50AM (#12078886)
As the article hinted, there's a lot to consider when reaching the headline figure. Here's the associated grain of salt: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/analysis-crazy-gr...
Re:Release of IPython 5.0 on Friday July 08, 2016 @07:22AM (#12054734)
Multiline support - my prayers have been answered! Copying/pasting code and modifying multiline commands from your history was easily the most annoying thing about ipython.
Re:Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:23PM (#11990603)
Guilty as charged deletes tweets and learns lesson
Re:Running Emacs on Android on Saturday April 09, 2016 @06:34AM (#11460741)
In conclusion, use Vim instead. ;)
Re:I’m a boring programmer (and proud of it) on Saturday April 02, 2016 @06:48PM (#11413928)
If you read Linus Torvalds' Q&A posted up a while ago, you'll see that Linus Torvalds doesn't think he's a rockstar either! http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w...

"I’m not a big visionary. I’m a very plodding pedestrian engineer, and I try to keep my eyes firmly on the ground."