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I don’t mean this to sound harsh, but this post comes across a little like you already assume you deserve to win such a prize and it’s just those fickle judges standing in your way…

I think that proposed prize would be pretty “value-free.”

I’m okay with that. I’ve been a huge fan of Ballard and Priest for years, and got into Nina Allan’s work more recently and this book was a brilliant but heartbreaking read.

Having maintained internal forks, and having needed to pull in and rebase upstream changes I do read a lot of commits. Projects that take care with their commits are much easier to…

No, running a command in a terminal buffer doesn’t block the emacs UI, but a long running bit of elisp running in emacs can block the UI.

I think the thing that stops me from running more processes inside emacs is that a large diff parse from magit or similar can block everything, and so I end up keeping a separate t…

Okay. I gave it another read and I think we agree in general, but maybe disagree on how much memory model strangeness is acceptable, and how wide the gap between, “The behaviour ca…

It’s certainly possible, but I worry that weird things can happen when doing something as “simple” as defining a property if another thread is messing with the prototype chain. Eve…

Although the work being done to enable multiple threads in JS is impressive I think it will be hard to make robust in many casss without locks, or fairly strict limits what operati…

JSON ser deser is usually dominated by floats rather than ints, and they are more expensive to handle.

The GoF book came out in 94, and Java in 95.

The point is that having a GC will affect your data structure and algorithm design, so it’s easier to automatically transform JS or TS to Go than to rust because you’re mostly redu…

It depends a lot on where you were brought up, and the language you were exposed to. My first association would be a very Yorkshire, “Thou knowest,” rather than the king james.

cF is the command you want for this.

I recommend actual human reviewers who you can stick with over time and who do not just say that a book is good or bad but something about why. Those don’t have to be professional …

iPhone—hold down 0 and ° should be on the pop up.

It’s been swinging for at least 30 years, Toplink came out in 1994, and I have worked on systems that were written half a decade earlier that contained things we’d all call ORMs.

That is superbly done. I can go further back than some here, 1300 is fine, 1200 I can mange okay, but 1100 takes real effort.

Orthography is probably the biggest stumbling block going back to the 1500s or 1400s , but that’s really because the rest of the language has changed in vocabulary and style, but i…

Having interpreted for a guy speaking with a broad Glaswegian accent on the east coast main line, I can totally believe this.

I believe the lore appropriate term is Abominable Intelligences.

Obviously there isn’t any of that in Warhammer, at least not officially. Even a pretty niche thing for them is probably at a scale where resin casting would make more sense (assumi…

You need more than a simple sandbox for what you describe. You also need to avoid infinite loops or other constructs from causing a DoS or similar, and if you are doing this with t…

Smalltalk, Lisp, and other image based languages allowed this. I would not recommend it beyond a very restricted idea of patching.

Confirmation codes are not sufficient on their own, they cycle through them relatively quickly so they have to be combined with things like the passengers family name to actually i…