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> evil They never removed "don't be evil", they just changed where it is in the document.

It's a real cool idea to compile everything down to lambda calculus and then you solve all semantics issues. (If something fits) you can convert 1:1, use general libraries in one l…

LOC is an important metric for cost. There's a certain budget of what a person or team can understand/manage.

To what extent is this practice applicable to other loads?

> CUE spec Have you heard of Ada, whose type system does the same thing?

Taking comments via a (n email) form, which you then manually add under the article's html/markdown is nice.

The etymology is: > A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusio…

Sweden did not have a mask mandate and did very well.

Julia may be cool, but it's not an array language in the tradition of APL.

Because it's in the middle of the night.

Perhaps paradise. The browser as a lisp machine, ah... Dreams. The spritely team is making strides to using Guile in WASM, but it's nothing like s expr instead of JSON etc. could h…

GUIX is a pleasure

This is cool. I think I'll try to learn it!

I guess the ussr originally were vibrant and full of innovation but especially the 30s purges killed it off.

Without detracting from her humor, Thomas Edison and other before him e.g. wrote about bugs in the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

Wait, dissemblers will turn assembly into any language you want?

> wrinkles They go the other way. The US surpassed the UK in per capita income in the 1880s. However, American yeomen farmers, factory workers etc. were far better off than (non-UK…

> there's a circularity in the K&R book that makes it confusing if you read it all the way through What do you mean?

Where can I read about your project or hear your tangent?

Thank you! Do you have visibility into the certifications or business structure here? Like how does a company enter this space with random subpar software? Do the certifications au…

The introduction is really well done. It's not all bells and whistles like roc, but goes through everything cleanly and succinctly. Things I found interesting - indent with 8 space…