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See also: Recent scrubbing US government web sites for words like "diversity", "equity", and "inclusion". Writing about biology, finance, or geology? Shrug. Dumb filtering is bad e…

Sure it's offered free of charge -- and immediately next to the big "Download" button is a big "Donate" button. > Maybe they do actually donate to the project, contribute code, or …

Obligatory mention of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle

Also for example the imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofburg

I am by no means a finance or investing whiz. But the first thing I like to do is skip ahead to the cash flow statement. In this case https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/165348…

I rarely read The Register. Is that the usual tone -- as if the author wishes they were Lady Whistledown, the gossip writer on Bridgerton?

On the other hand, I've just spent several more-or-less full-time months taking advantage of the drracket/check-syntax library, provided by the core Racket team. On the third hand,…

Not sure why you're being down-voted. (As usual here, only clicking a down-vote button contributes little value.) - You are correct that implementing markdown consistently is hard …

This seems unnecessarily harsh. Capitalization isn't a deep signal. There are lIsPs like Clojure that argue (> data functions macros). Although I mostly disagree (for example I lov…

> Now an assistive technology user has an equal (and maybe even better) conceptual map of the content and actions they can take on this website compared to a non-assistive technolo…

These days that's what rackjure re-provides: http://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html#(mod-path._r...

No. :) Continuations are in the category of things best explained by burrito analogies.

I remember the golden age -- when it seemed like every week there was a Lifehacker.com post about a cool way to use and customize Gmail, GReader, etc. I gladly guzzled the Kool Aid…

It's already non-easy to figure out what customers want, make it, make sure they know you have it, and get them to buy it. On top of that, lately it seems more challenging not to b…

AWS Cloud Watch Logs can take JSON format log events. This displays better in the AWS console -- and also it enables better queries than raw text, e.g. `{$.response.code >= 400}`.

In my experience Typed Racket programs are never slower than their dynamically typed Racket equivalents. Sometimes they are faster (such as when the program does a lot of numeric c…

It can make sense if you're developing for Linux -- for instance web apps that will run on Linux in production. It can also make sense if you like physical function keys and/or a t…

And, you probably want someone who joined BigCo when it was YourSizeCo.

Depending on the definition of "it", someone has: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

Racket took the baton from Eiffel: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contract-boundaries.html

My first lesson in this was the Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface. It had a "smart mode" which accepted timestamped buffers. It was great... if you wanted a sequencer with exactly the …

In some languages the "stack" may grow until all memory is exhausted. (Some of those languages also guarantee tail call elimination.)