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Could be, for which the first attested use is in 1965 or so. Still doesn’t help.

While fun and satisfying, this is extremely unlikely to be true. The first attested use is from 1945, on the nose of a P-47 Thunderbolt flown by Captain Milton Thompson of the 509t…

It starts in the very first paragraph. “The headlines say yes. […] The headline is wrong.” And there are numerous such examples. “That was half true. The kill chain ran. The interc…

This is an exhausting and dispiriting article to try to read because of its short, choppy, clearly AI-generated sentences. The topic is interesting, but whoever caused it to be pen…

Your backstory is complete nonsense. Liberty Utilities has nothing to do with libertarian separatists. It's a brand name of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp, a boring Canadian infr…

This is sort of a revival and elaboration of some of Bram’s ideas from Codeville, an earlier effort that dates back to the early 2000s Cambrian explosion of DVCS. Codeville also us…

Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few year…

This is a bizarre essay by someone who understands neither functional programming nor the history of computers. > To be kind, we’ve spent several decades twisting hardware to make …

Should say "(2018)".

No, this isn’t a good description of monads. It merely describes a case that shows up sometimes.

The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no fatalities. https://www.facebook.com/199535516767620/posts/4006006656120...

Yes, and in fact this can even be done incrementally and efficiently these days. One example is the open source tool Infer, which we run on very large bodies of native and Java cod…

Let me put Mike's comment into what I think is its proper context. "Poor support for numerical computing" really means "relative to Mike's dream, which is not actually realisable b…

Facebook has large engineering offices in New York, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv, and smaller presences in Boston and Dublin. There's also a vast range of engineering projects, fr…

There have been numerous well-known problems with the Java and Python standard libraries over the years. For instance, the date/time classes in Java were a disaster for a long time…

A small correction: GHC uses plenty of type tagging information. In fact, its metadata overhead is relatively high.

I think of programming in Haskell as being more about being able to choose a level of abstraction that makes sense for the situation. The more abstract code is great when it works …

In fact, it turns out the Pusher protocol is all JSON, so you can autogenerate the code. Here's a Pusher message. { "event": "pusher:error", "data": { "message": String, "code": In…

I know nothing about the Pusher protocol, but the standard approach to boilerplate encoding/decoding problems these days is to use GHC.Generics. It doesn't always fit (typically wh…

Right there on the front page: "We are also working on an Android implementation which we will release later."

Modern pans are cast in sand because it's cheap. The manufacturing method changed about 60 years ago from a more precise mould (that happened to cost more, but gave a smoother fini…