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I predicted something like this in an old HN comment: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2247654

They don't have to read his email, just analyze it algorithmicly. They already generate some kind of index of how many times each interesting word is used, otherwise they couldn't …

Should be titled "Some Books I Think You Should Read, But Not To The Exclusion Of Your Social Life."

Another instance of "Anyone can create a security system that they themselves cannot defeat."

"How do you explain C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, and PHP? None had very extensive marketing budgets." I think a lot of these have larger marketing budgets than you imagi…

"I'll be the first to admit that it comes off as trollish. It's just I see these pronouncements about a language that make claims, which frankly I don't think can be backed up. I l…

> yet under its own weight it has nothing to show for it. That's factually incorrect. There's plenty to show for it, you just have to scale to the size of humanity's computing conc…

This is factually wrong in a number of ways. Modern linguists don't throw out "every aspect of language but syntax" (as you yourself indicate later in your own post). There are fal…

I still like Gabriel's idea of an MFA in programming. http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html If anybody ever made this happen I'd come running.

Is Mr. Shivers the motivation for that whole BBM essay? ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm )

"This is the nub of what I want to say. A language design can no longer be a thing. It must be a pattern -- a pattern for growth -- a pattern for growing the pattern for defining t…

Finally, a HN post I can get behind.

I get it. `my_if` doesn't require separate recompilation of the functions that use it. Well played. I still see a subset of the functionality of a language with macros over sexprs …

Right, but I can add a sub-language with lazy evaluation, infix operators, and application syntax to Lisp... I fully recognize Haskell can do a very useful subset of the features o…

"Reason 1: Haskell shines at domain specific languages. "[...] if you can embed a domain specific language into the programming language you’re using, things that looked very diffi…

You're not really addressing the arguments presented in the linked post, you're just being snarky. I can appreciate that, but the linked post makes some really good points. Also, t…

Amen. Whenever I read a joel-on-software or FogCreek blog post, I feel like I'm being exposed to a clever advertisement, where the clever factor decreases linearly over time. This …

The most interesting bit is that he thinks trivia-game ability is genetic. (Well, that and how he handles being a mormon.)

Fine grained concurrency will motivate the next big paradigm shift. I haven't seen anything better than actors or STM yet though.

Wait, I get it now. This as an ad hominem attack against the FSF that assumed the reader would hold "UNIX pipes" and command lines as bad things. I think you're on the wrong forum.…

Why do you use words like "Unix pipes" when you don't know what they mean?

Should be a must-read for hiring managers at software / web shops.