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the bad ones are in Santa Barbara

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It's stylized as "LOGO" in Papert's 1981 book Mindstorms and in papers written by Papert in the 1970s.

Looks like some kind of hybrid. https://reviews.transmission1.net/2006/02/cobra-200-gtl-dx-s...

Other languages don't generally have special order guarantees about standard maps. This seems very idiosyncratic.

This isn't a sorted dictionary, it's an insertion order dictionary.

I use OrderedDict in code that generates JSON records so the key orders are preserved to help human readability. LRU caches are another use case.

As mentioned in The Friendly Orange Glow, it was started by people who worked on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois which added its Notes discussion system in 1973. PLA…

Do you think you might have a conflict of interest here?

What is your stack? I feel like you are doing something odd if total build times are a bottleneck on development.

Checked exceptions don't work right with streams/functional programming. They prevent abstractions that couldn't possibly be aware of custom checked exceptions. That's why Scala do…

It was though https://www.artima.com/intv/pyscale.html "So I never intended Python to be the primary language for programmers, although it has become the primary language for many …

They aren't making a profit if that money is going to wages.

Not only is HN full of smart people, people with high IQs are likely drawn to articles about high IQs.

That comment was about the number of women who had won. Strickland is the third woman to win.

Yes and I don't accept Y Combinator's word as empirical science either.

I'm extremely sympathetic to mental health issues, but this article is based on a survey by a mental health charity. This is junk science.

Have you seen the previous fad? Data centers full of idle servers.

The O(1) amortized access of a hash table is for the number of entries, not key hashing or comparison. Doubling the number of entries does not double the retrieval time. As a hash …

The linked post is about Python startup being a problem with thousands of invocations. Is Python startup really a problem for the niches you mention, or is it a problem in some ext…

You're just asserting that though. There was a study done on the removal of two of the racist/hate subreddits on reddit that indicated a positive affect. "In this paper, we studied…