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Over the years, I've found that the best ideas come to me when walking to the bathroom and back. Especially when I'm trying to come up with a good solution to a difficult programmi…

Can we perhaps take this opportunity to pour one out for Matt Levine? I can't think of any writer/journalist who can bring an often esoteric topic like present day financial shenan…

I think I once read a comment on here that the command-line parsing logic of ffmpeg is Turing-complete. It's probably telling that I can't remember if that was meant as a joke or t…

This very much resonates with my experience. I've seen this very process take place when working at a small tech startup that ended up being bought by a non-tech giant keen on unde…

Fun fact: Gauss is said to have commented on this equation that "if this was not immediately apparent to you upon being told it, you would never be a first-class mathematician".

If you're interested in Feigenbaum's constant, check out Numberphile's video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ .

Firefox makes money by its search deal with Google, in other words: by funneling their users towards Google. This pretty much also boils down to "making money by showing you ads". …

My favorite tidbit of this story: In 2014, Relotius sold two stories to the monthly magazine of a Swiss paper, both interviews with hairdressers. The second one (still online: http…

I also want to urge anyone with even just a fleeting interest in mathematical topics like this to go out looking for said BBC documentary. It's a marvelous portrait of the characte…

This (highly stylized) rendering of the opening of Bach's Matthew Passion has helped me appreciate the structure of this extraordinary piece of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

This sounds a lot like the Ripple network. Or is there a substantial technological difference?

>catch up to Rust This proposal has nothing whatsoever to do about any Rust feature. It's about compile-time metaprogramming on steroids.