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To be fair, I'm pretty sure some of the engineers at Google and Facebook have spent some time with the language and platform graybeards at Microsoft, Sun, or Adobe. Some of them ar…

It's a bit awkward to read on large screens. Long lines and whatnot

Inspired by https://bestmotherfucking.website/ body { margin: 1em auto; max-width: 40em; font: 1.2em/1.62em sans-serif; } That seems like a good start

The canonical text discussing how this is achieved refers to data structures optimized for immutability as "purely functional data structures". [1] These type of data structures ar…

https://github.com/angular/angular/releases 2.0 was released 28 days ago

So much this. Through a series of unexpected events, I ended up studying math in undergrad with no clue why or what I was going to do with it. My senior year I took a class called …

Based on the slides discussing Pypy performance, it looks to me that they're not confident that rewriting those 80k lines of C would provide sufficient performance. It might, but i…

> The Go maintainers have conflated what a library is and where a library is. That's an important distinction that should not be glossed over like this. I think this depends on whe…

It's not perfect, there's still some learning to do around the fringes where it interacts with emacs, but it is by far the BEST vik - like - but - not - vim experience I've seen so…

I believe Ceylon will actually further refine Int | Option[Int] to simply Option[Int]. Option[Int] is simply an alias to the type Int | Null, so Int | Option[Int] would become Int …

Doesn't this presume the x axis is time. What if the x axis is progress towards completion and the y axis is effort?

That kind of makes sense. How often do you view Tweets on a desktop? Even when I'm actively using a desktop browser, I usually check Tweets on my phone. Why? Because that's where I…

Features like Scala's implicit parameters could be argued to be a kind of "dynamic scope". True, the language is lexically scoped and most code is written expecting that, but it do…

Even in type inferred languages they serve some use, namely in avoiding mis-typed variable names. Languages which require "var" make a distinction between the intent of declaring a…

People often mistake the succinctness of vim's commands as an attempt to save a few keystrokes typing, but that's only a side benefit. The vim command structure makes it trivial to…