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Due to phonetic shifts in the programming language community, we now say that barbarians are people who say "var var var".

It's the usage that originated with Lewis H. Morgan. Engels used it in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which Wikipedia has a good summary of: > Barbaris…

Even closer to home is the England/Portugal alliance, which started in 1373 and has run continuously since then.

> I can only assume that someone else was the talent at Bullfrog and Lionhead. You should look into the career of the Carter brothers (Simon and Dene).

We've thought exactly the same in the past about depression, homosexuality, unmarried mothers and outspoken women, but yes, maybe this time medicalizing something before we know mu…

In the literature these are called Barnum Statements (after PT Barnum, of "there's one born every minute"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

I understood the /converse/ to be the hyponyms of x's hypernym that were not x. So "spoon's" converse are forks, knives, maybe chopsticks, etc.

Data Engineer at Thread (YC '12) here. We're a relatively small team so it's nothing terribly sophisticated - Spark jobs prep log data for a nightly model training, done with sklea…

I don't think that you literally mean literally, but an obvious difference between slavery in the United States and conscription in the United States that you can avoid the latter …

Not a lawyer, but I imagine they have not ability to exercise the fifth amendment as it's not self-incrimination, and I believe only natural persons (i.e. not corporations) are pro…

You may enjoy knowing that the singular of criteria is criterion (Greek, not Latin). A criterium is a bike race, from the same root: a κριτήριον is a decision, with the same nuance…

Neither online nor free, but the Cambridge Latin courses are justly acclaimed as classics in the Classics.

If your business model relies on you paying people less than a minimum wage, there's no particular reason that a society who's decided that's a bad idea should allow you to limit y…

And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.

Not sure if you're aware but iterm2 (v3) has tmux support so you can have the benefits of both.

I would suggest that pattern matching over ADTs is what has subsumed the visitor pattern.

In the UK, both The Co-operative and John Lewis companies are cooperatives and account for over 10% of the supermarket industry. Various building societies are very similar, and th…

> I just mean it is silly. What's your point in bringing up combinatorics then? > Imagine that you need to pick out your particular family emoji each time from all the possible com…

I really wonder about the combination of ignorance of Unicode, stick-in-the-mud attitude to diversity and appetite for accidental irony that makes someone write a long paragraph (5…

> up to the time when statistical significance is achieved. You generally then stop the test Just a note, don't literally do this: http://conversionxl.com/statistical-significance-…

That's also the definition of "getting better".