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Looks like someone else mentioned PAIP. I’d add “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol” as well.

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The author's about page reports that he is a former physicist with experience in automotives and law enforcement. It also contains the statement "I have a particular dislike of sel…

If they're so easy and obvious, why hasn't the author done it, at least as a demo? The article also reeks of "this doesn't work for me, therefore it won't work for anyone" I doubt …

Which episode has a crash that (1) they failed to find a primary cause for and (2) would have been solved had they had video?

Thanks for the clarification.

It would be less useful than you’d think. Pilots are trained to articulate what they are doing and generally follow very well-practiced procedures. Another pilot can quite accurate…

There’s an interesting aside in that neither a CVR nor a FDR would have been helpful in figuring out the cause of the Comet disasters. The way they did was brilliant.

The article is interesting, but that lede is incoherent. Many mathematicians accept computer proofs the way chess grand masters accept computer players. Computer “assistants” that …

When I teach coding, I used to have a similar lesson around commenting code: "don't tell me you're creating a variable. I can read the code. Tell me what the variable is for." I st…

Felleisen is an ACM Fellow with a senior tenured position at Rice. American, white, middle-aged. Doesn't have a presence in social media. He'll be fine.

That seemed like an awful lot of words to describe the entirely predictable fact that the job market will pick up significantly as we shed pandemic restrictions and that workers in…

Why would I use this and not Pandoc?

"nor are the skills of writing good documentation even vaguely similar to those for writing good code". I disagree. Vehemently.

I always liked the way he responded when asked (many years later) why he did it. Paraphrased, it was along the lines of "It was so obviously the right thing to do, but it would hav…

The only problem here is that the author perceives a need to apologize, or to even feel regret. If the only compensation for starting and maintaining an open source project is the …

"No one would go to a restaurant where each dish requires a paragraph of text to really appreciate the taste and texture..." One assumes that you've never eaten with a 'foodie' or …

The author has a pretty good CV, but as his Wikipedia entry notes, there is a concerning history to some of his publications. The WP entry cites several expressions of concern, whi…

I bet you hate Elizabeth Holmes. I wish your sex wasn't relevant, but unfortunately it still is. I genuinely wish you well. We've seriously needed more (hell, any ) diversity in ou…

The part I found interesting was that the author notes that it is well-known that the quality of the work has little to do with its odds of acceptance even when the system is 'func…