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OK, let's talk about parsing. The article claims that parsing isn't necessary with structured editing. We're working on some abstract data structure representing our language's syn…

> 2. benign effects: in Haskell "proper", you do not have effects; rather you have "codes" for effects, which get interpreted into effects by the RTS; this rules out the possibilit…

In this case, the dragon is slain without much trouble. In LVish ( https://github.com/iu-parfunc/lvars ) we've got an effect-tracking system that allows us to ensure determinism (r…

Ruby and JS are both Turing-complete languages (as with just about any other programming language you'll ever use), which means that one can simulate the other. The simulation migh…

It's worth remembering that a large portion of blue-collar criminals are arrested for possession of, say, a small amount of marijuana. There's a big difference between mugging some…

I believe only one of the listed people are the creators of languages (Rails is a framework, jQuery is a library).

Not to be contrarian or anything, but why isn't Pamela Fox mentioned in the title? Seems odd that she's the only omission from the photos on the front page.

Doesn't seem to be working in Firefox 25 on OS X. [00:06:34.535] SyntaxError: Using //@ to indicate source map URL pragmas is deprecated. Use //# instead @ http://ajax.googleapis.c…

But in a situation like that, you could just annotate the type. In Haskell: add :: Int -> Int -> Int add a b = a + b

That 90% can have boyfriends, too, you know.

It's underspecified anyway -- we need to know about the motion of rabbits, the troll, the density of black holes, etc.

edX's Github repo, for those interested: https://github.com/edx/

Thank you. If we accept discrimination of minorities as inevitable, then it will be.

Yes, none of the teams you've worked on have needed any explicit bans on behavior that's considered unacceptable in society. That's because you've worked on teams with adult humans…

What's that? The BSA is acting in a decidedly unfriendly way? No! I say this as an Eagle Scout, and someone who had a great time as a Boy Scout from around age ten to eighteen. The…

I'm currently using Firefox for browsing and Chrome for debugging, just for this feature. Now I can go back to one browser, a more sensible workflow.

This is certainly an interesting thing to think about, but the article is not well written. The author makes a vast leap of logic from "We are researching organ printing, and we ha…

I'm decidedly with you on this. I don't have a smartphone, and I rarely answer my phone when it rings -- it's rare that an out-of-the-blue call is urgent. Text messages always wait…

I've got a bit of a gripe with the "Job Application" form. Asynchronous saves aren't really intuitive to a lot of users -- if you're a web developer who understands AJAX (and the f…

This is really neat, but the main reason I type as much as possible is because my handwriting is awful . I'd gladly use a service that made my scrawl a bit more legible.

https://github.com/benhoskings/babushka Looks like the repo has moved to a new Github account.

Chances are any genetic algorithm would be impractical due to the necessity of using a human as a fitness function. Unless you could create a neural network to classify jokes as fu…

Nope. Am I?

I find that I dismiss pretty nearly anyone who refers to a programming language in all caps. Outside of FORTRAN, COBOL, and C.*, it just looks ridiculous -- SCHEME, ERLANG, LISP, J…