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Pedantic as hell but `"100" * 2` in Python (= `"100100"` for those who don't know) isn't really typing, it's operator overloading. Any language with that could implement the same q…

They said three times "ask me anything" and then didn't respond to a single question. Stop making HN wose by comparing someone dodging accountability to slavery.

They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

My favorite story from the book. Working on hardware, the engineers would often have problems where the whole machine would crash because some signal happend one nanosecond too ear…

Maybe a dumb question, but... I'm a Canadian who would qualify for a TN visa if I worked in the States, but don't currently have a visa or green card. On the online submission form…

I don't know how it works, but it seems very odd that serialization/reflection wouldn't work with AOT... the information you need is there in memory either way, isn't it?

I was introduced to this word by the Carl Sagan novel Contact, and I’ve always remembered it.

AA sounds like a horrible company. They had a design legacy from when their logo and identity were designed by Massimo Vignelli, but they threw it away and didn't seem to have any …

I didn’t know adding text to the submission would show up as a comment so it looks like I’m the author. Sorry about that!

A month ago I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. This is my journey of regret, joy, anger, and inter-species body modification.

I don’t know why floats aren’t included, but any float can be easily represented by an int with same bits, or a bytestring, using the struct module to convert between them, so ther…

Wendigos!

I just assumed they were broken or that the image server was slashdotted.

A lot of people sing BB's praises but I never had a good experience with them. The client was always slow, buggy, and resource hungry, and its UI is terrible. They got shirty with …

SideFX | http://sidefx.com/careers/ | 3D software developer; Technical writer | US or Canada (Remote) | Full-time SideFX makes Houdini, one of the most popular and widely-used 3D m…

Facebook is the new tobacco industry.

I would have said splurge for a Ubiquiti Dream Machine, but it's not quite the automatic recommend it was before they started taking a "go fast break things" attitude toward their …

Maybe it's a weird sex thing involving Jonathan Frakes.