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Here are some recent interesting videos by "Mentour Pilot" about the DC10 plane accidents caused by a cargo door coming off and depressurising the cargo hold: https://www.youtube.c…

Unicode was originally meant to fit everything into 16 bits. UTF-8 is just a way to encode, it doesn't decide what goes into Unicode.

What did you want them to say?

> And although officially JSON requires quoted strings, almost none of the parsers actually enforce that What programming language? I'm not familiar with those parsers, the ones I …

Facebook hates him! Here's how a hacker news commenter used one weird old trick to produce new phrases to put in headlines!

We're discussing programming language benchmarks. If one was forced to write all of a C or C++ or even Go program using only doubles, and not integers, and only hash tables, not ar…

> There's plenty to not like about JS, but being interpreted and not having integers or arrays is not high on its negatives list. We are having a discussion is about programming la…

A program written in C will execute faster if you run it multiple times, and slower if it has not been run recently. Presumably all of the benchmarks consist of many thousands of r…

I program in Go and JavaScript, but don't enjoy it. I assure you that JavaScript is an interpreted language, and it does not have arrays or integers. This is not a harsh statement …

> The Go vs JavaScript lineup is quite stunning. Go destroys Node.js in memory usage and performance on every test except regex-redux (edge case?). Why would it be stunning that a …

I bought this book based on the endless internet recommendations. After reading it, I was mystified, completely mystified, why people recommended it so strongly.

> I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel. This statement is incorrect. You haven't provided instructions on how one can trivia…

Despite what the article says about Trump supporters being worried about climate change, this was a campaign pledge of Trump. So this, like the wall, is what people who voted for T…

Sales and engineering are the two pillars of the Conjoined Triangles of Success.

> You use this to get suggested corrections when things don't compile. It repeatedly says that the aim is to fix errors. Assuming, however, that it is intended to give better error…

When I saw this title, I was expecting to find something about using a computer to detect things like "use after free" errors. However, skimming the paper, it appears to refer to a…

> hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, ins…

This is what I cannot understand about Go: how did a newly-designed programming language end up as such a muddle?

> Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... promised to install both a roller coaster and free frozen yogurt machines throughout the facility. I had to double-check that I was not reading a satirica…

> Despite the overwhelming negative reaction in that discussion thread, Google decided to go ahead with it. What does that really say about Google and friends? It says "Google is a…

> 450,000 cents is about 5 thousand a month. Assume that one person works full time on it. $5,000 a month is $60,000 a year. Subtract hosting costs and it's a relatively low income…

The spamming of this site by these kinds of projects has gone far enough that it has now been parodied in a television series: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6c…

This post about yet another "new programming language" reaching a milestone consisting of random digits was upvoted so that it reached the front page of your web site, and my point…

I'm trying to contain my excitement.

Yeah, it's hard to contain one's excitement when one hears that version 0.17.0 of a project has just been released.