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As a 30+ year old software engineer, I can confidently tell that the older you get, the later you are to learn piano. Musical instruments are best learnt as a kid. I have seen kids…

For a moment I thought it was the Python documentation tool named Sphinx. Took me a while to understand it is a payload format for a blockchain.

> The guideline was to always use the imperative form if you knew there was a better way, especially if there's a precedent or it's a written rule in a guideline, but even for opin…

I get "500 Internal Server Error" when I visit this post.

But there is no infinite BC, right? There cannot be any date earlier than the date of the big bang. That establishes a lower bound for the set of dates, does it not?

It is obvious that dates are not natural numbers. What is your point? A set of dates obviously has an earliest date. The humour here is that an earliest date within the set of unin…

> James Gosling leaves Oracle for reasons that were not quite clear at the time, but soon become clear. Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle (2010): https://www.eweek.com/…