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I used janet for Advent of Code 2021 too. My first exploration of the language. Small world. I found janet fun but quirky. My work is at https://github.com/jimmahoney/advent-of-cod…

FWIW here are my CS courses including notes, assignments, and resources: https://cs.bennington.college/ (2020 - 2022) & https://cs.marlboro.college/ (2010 - 2020)

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Best scifi I've read in awhile; a really nice one in the first-person-nonhuman genre.

Faculty Position in Computer Science at Bennington College Full time on site starting Fall 2021 Would you like to teach and help design a broad cross-disciplinary computing curricu…

I have the Ikea Markus at home and it's been fine, especially for a $200 chair. I use a Herman-Miller Aeron in my work office that I got when I was having back problems, and like i…

I second "Eloquent Javascript" - it's excellent.

Anonymous Pro https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Anonymous+Pro

Argentine tango : check out the "my double life" TED talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdI3FNItHk .

lighthearted and fun : "The Crown Jewels" by Walter John Williams. Definitely. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Maijstral

Lois McMaster Bujold is just the best - almost everything she's written.

I teach intro programming using python, and use it regularly for various projects. But I agree with the author's central point that the language has a number of issues. He mentions…

"Life. Don't talk to me about life." - Marvin. http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Marvin

It looks cool, but I don't really want to wait half a minute for it to do anything. $ time curl cs.marlboro.college 301 Moved Permanently Moved Permanently The document has moved h…

Yes - I use this and the CMU labs for an undergrad course, and it's excellent.

The statistically significant result is that scores on this test : "in each trial set, participants complete a series of math problems (information processing) while simultaneously…

Ready Player One. Though the recent second time was as an audio book on a long car trip.

I'm typing from an Ikea Marcus which is my home office chair. While I agree that the Aeron is great (and have one at work that I use regularly), the Marcus fit in my budget ($200 f…

Here's a different sort-of-functional python fizzbuzz. While it doesn't use the spiffy lazy lists of itertools, and does have the typical "if x % n == 0" test, it does generalize e…

A few others that I don't think have been mentioned, in no particular order. - Guardians of the Galaxy - Back to the Future series - Men in Black - Groundhog Day - Elysium - Planet…

This free online textbook using R is what I used when I last taught statistics in a college setting : https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php .

I like this notion of "political compass" : https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2 (not unique to this author), in which liberal vs conservative (left vs right) is an axis , bu…

Having done a variety of data analysis and computational modeling while working as a PhD physics student and postdoc, I can attest that many of my colleagues wrote terrible code. T…

I teach a systems course at Marlboro College which covers some x86 assembler and C, using Bryant and O'Hallaron's "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" textook. ( http://c…