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As opposed to English?

I used Racket a few times, which is designed to write new languages. Well worth a look: https://racket-lang.org/#easy-dsls

It's not options either (that would be ESOPs), but actually a kind of bonus structure. If there is an exit event, as specified in the VSOP agreement, you get a bonus that should be…

I have never worked as a pure PM, but I have worked with several. I would say that the most important thing is to build trust with your team and to be ready to adapt to the existin…

But summertime is a (at least here) a separate timezone, e.g., CET vs CEST

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, a explorer/anthropologist. He and a group of other volunteers sailed across the pacific on a raft built using ancient methods to prove that the pacific …

I kind of agree, but I would also argue that of those who treat coding as a craft many are in danger as well. Code in the end is just a tool. Deep understanding won't be replaced a…

Really cool, but as a foreigner in Germany it also saddens me that there is a need for so many apps and softwares to deal with bureaucracy.

I didn't do it last year, but the years before I used Racket and Common Lisp. I might try Common Lisp again since I really want to rediscover the experience of programming w/ Sly (…

And here you're assuming that making software engineers more productive would be a service to the world. I think the jury is out on that one as well. At least for the majority of s…

Interesting analogy with the car. I also remember a similar discussion about mathematics. You can easily brute-force a bunch of theorems starting from some axioms and logic, but wi…

Is it? It looks more like an interesting discussion about tools and what a good tool should do. One point of view is that a good tool should augment you in a process, something gen…

I really enjoyed The Fat Tail by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat, which is about political risk and how to mitigate or manage it. Think revolutions, regulatory changes, elections etc.…

Is it free though? I'm a fan of rebase myself, but understand the point made above. For me, the biggest pro of a clean history is when doing `git blame`. If the history is clean an…

By "a couple of rich guys" are you referring to the fact that roughly 90% of all power production capacity is owned by the public via municipalities, regions and the state? ( https…

Aren't you saying the same thing? If externalities were priced appropriately, then storage probably would be a good investment.