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Scheme has the lambda special form, predating Python by decades, and its version also allows for multiple parameters in a non-curried way. SICP served as a classical textbook in co…

There is a class of hashes known as locality-sensitive hashes, which are designed to preserve some metric of "closeness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

Was going to post the exact same thing. I make use of this repeated git blame method all the time, and for everyone who is just learning this for the first time, you'll actually wa…

I've had some success using it in a Django app where I generate a whitelist from my main branch, and then I run vulture on my feature branch just before I open up a pull request. T…

If your company allows for it, you can early exercise and file a 83(b) election so that even as your options vest over time, you only pay taxes for the spread between your strike p…

You don't even need to leave this planet to find and example of this. In East Asia, red symbolizes prosperity, and the stock market tickers use red to indicate gains.

They do for crypto-to-crypto trades :)

I would be a little bit careful. I don't know if there's a risk of counterfeiting, but I once bought what I thought was supposed to be a US region Moto X2 but instead got a Europea…

While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name that uses slang lik…

Linux-capable hardware will be coming out this year.

Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.