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Sorry, that wasn't meant to read as sarcastic or critical, I actually think Mochi is really neat. I love Scala, basically because it adds pattern matching to Java, and am really ha…

So Mochi : Python as Scala : Java? Neato.

This is wicked cool. I am really happy to see this.

Purely out of curiosity: what is it that you do that forces you to work with COBOL on a daily basis?

Footnote typesetting is abominable, too.

Not sure if I see an actual use case for this since we live in a world that has Pandas, but I'm impressed.

I feel like Wired goes back and forth a lot - some of their articles (on a number of topics, not just computer-related) are pleasingly technical and I've really enjoyed them, and s…

As a Scala enthusiast, it's neat to see one of my pet languages get press, but...a "software engineering technology called Scala"? Did you mean "programming language"?

Enochian? Also, I recall there being a reference to an Enochian Metagrammar at one point or another...

Yeah, that's a good trick - I was thinking specifically of the benefits of launching into an inclined orbit vs. the incredibly painful process of gravity turn, circularize, change …

If there's one thing I've learned from Kerbal Space Program, it's that inclination changes are Hard and Scary...

Icon was actually one of the first programming languages I learned, way back in elementary school. Thank you for reminding me of this.

Oops.

If there's no money to be extracted from it, then it's dead in the eyes of industry.

I assumed this was about whole brain simulation / emulation. Needless to say, I was disappointed.

Seriously, I have no idea what's going on here.

Looks like we crashed his webhost. :(

Ah yes, Sweden. A place where there is no technology. At all.

Okay, I'll admit that the whitespace crack at the end was pretty funny.

The fact that I have to click on something to see language breakdowns is a problem. The fact that I have to refresh the repo page to make the language breakdowns go away is a bigge…

Took me a couple moments to figure out this was a joke.

ITT: journalists don't "get" programming.

Oh no! The hackers are coming with their terrible powers of "subversion"!

...at Berea College.

Kary Mullis, the inventor of polymerase chain reaction, is an HIV denialist.