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I'm actually very interested, which is why I bothered to comment in the first place. I had to download the HTML of the article and search and replace all exclamation points with pe…

I wish this didn't have so many exclamation points in it! There are literally 41 (!!!) exclamation points in this short blog post! It is exhausting to read! Please consider not usi…

For a function f and a value x, foldr f x [a,b,c] gets turned into f(a, f(b, f(c, x))) '(:)' is list concatenation, so the result is 1 : (2 : (3 : [])) (Here we are writing list co…

A "well actually" occurs when a person is splitting hairs. This can be desirable, for example when you're trying to obtain a complete understanding of something. But in normal conv…

I didn't mean to imply it was trivial to understand, but it's no more difficult than the formal definition of, say, a derivative (which involves a limit, and hence an epsilon-delta…

The article argues against overly formal approaches, but I actually think it errs too much in that direction. When I'm studying a math thing, at some point I need you to shut up wi…

Just as it would be unreasonable to require that anyone who drives a car roughly understands how an engine works, it would be similarly unreasonable to require that anyone who uses…

Wait, it's not clear to me from the blog post. Did they make a system that obsoletes reCAPTCHA? If so, it's just a matter of time before the spam systems catch up, correct? If so, …

I'm not sure what "fit to be a developer" means. People (with very few exceptions) are not born with labels that say "able to write software professionally" or "not able to write s…

I've tried reading Rudin a couple times, but it's a bit of a slog. There are easier analysis texts. Abbott's Understanding Analysis is good, though a bit basic. I'm currently readi…

Almost a year and a half ago Jeff Atwood proposed a Markdown standardization effort: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/). The popular Markdown parser Sundown was …

Find a book about C++. Read as much of it as you can. Write some code. (solving a few Project Euler problems might be worth it as long as you focus on writing dumb brute force solu…

60 pages before defining vector spaces seems like a not so good approach to linear algebra. Since Linear Algebra Done Right has already been recommended, I will suggest Linear Alge…