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Pre-wealth, Notch was friendly, kind, and downright jolly! Even as he started to accumulate wealth, he was donating huge sums of money to various indie games. Whenever a Humble Bun…

You never “need to” learn much of anything, but I think it would give you a different perspective. You don’t know what you don’t know.

This is fine advice for a personal project, but I don’t recommend proliferating a new custom framework if you expect other people to join and ramp up on your codebase. It’s nice to…

Oh! This erratum is the point I’ve been trying to get across. It sounds like we agree on this?

This isn't really the point I'm responding to. I am responding to this idea: > If you are relying on testing for correctness, you have already lost. In any language. As Dijkstra no…

C++ is even less well-defined than C, though. We find defects in the standard and inconsistencies between Clang/G++/MSVC every day. You’re demanding a rigor that is not possible wi…

You do know that every operating system and CPU in existence has ill-defined operations, right? The best-defined software I know of is SQLite. Every function is carefully documente…

It seems to me like TypeScript's soundness hole in #4 could be fixed. 1. I'd want TS to show an error on the line where the aliasing occurs, encouraging me to clone the list if I w…

But if your program is single-threaded, you don’t need an `Rc` type. The whole point of `Rc` and `std::shared_ptr` is so an object can have one owning pointer per thread, in cases …

Uh... Instagram is a Django app...

Keldon Jones’ Race for the Galaxy AI is brilliant. Every line is documented C. It trains and deploys a neural net. It has a fast and functional GUI. Most diehard RftG players have …