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On-wiki discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#T...

Reminds me of Google flipping Nest devices from a Linux-based OS to Fuchsia: https://9to5google.com/2021/08/17/google-fuchsia-update-roll... A lot fewer devices than Apple, but wit…

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> I appreciate your story, but this comment bothered me, because it's something people repeat a lot and it's actually not true. There's no good evidence that adults have more diffi…

In your hypothetical 100% of completions are copied verbatim from existing code. But if GitHub is to believed, only 0.1% are.

Author here. I wish I had made it clearer that the intent of the post was "this is an interesting and surprising thing you can achieve in C" and not "this is a good idea for a real…

Build Your Own Lisp ( http://buildyourownlisp.com/ ) is as good a starting point as any. You learn to implement a high-level dynamic programming language in C, which is a common ch…

The problem with making spelling more phonetic is that not everyone pronounces English the same. Even a single country like the United States or the United Kingdom counts a range o…

I read this book about a year ago and later wrote another Lisp [1] from scratch but based on the design in the book. It's still one of my favorite computer science books. He covers…

> Skip the Socratic dialogs basically. I agree, except make sure not to skip the SHRDLU [1] one, which isn't actually Hofstadter's writing at all, but a demo of the SHRDLU system w…

> For instance I'd PERSONALLY consider Portuguese to be OBJECTIVELY harder than Spanish. Emphasis mine. I don't mean to say that some languages aren't more difficult for speakers o…

Claims about the relative simplicity or complexity of different languages are rarely grounded in actual linguistic evidence. Languages comprise so many parts that it's not even cle…