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Hi ! I would like to create a list of the major texts in programming which influenced lots of people and were relevant back then, are relevant now and will be in the next 20 years.…

At least they are biased consistently and they truly believe they are not. When you agree to say and protect a set of views and facts carefully described in a contract... it's anot…

Gosh, just read his first book. Black Swan. Where he shows that before Europeans discovered black swans in Australia it was a perfect "educated guess" to assume all swans are white…

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/987700101090086912

It was one of Pascal main features in tape drive era: single pass compiler.

Taleb doesn't mean IQ doesn't test something real. He says this "something real" is irrelevant.

I thought free software was about freedom, not how to monetize it. You can never trust a service - only your own hardware (it's not quite possible with modern mass-market CPU thoug…

What other languages do you think "made it right" ?

And if foo(z) is consuming a generator somehow (e.g. it's next(g)) then you can't call it twice without side effects.

One of the richest companies in the world with very good engineers made a supercomplex engine which nobody understands and looks like they cannot make it better and we use it happi…

Polish is a Slavic language and Latin letters are not suitable for it. I'm Russian who speaks English and a bit French and I can understand some Polish words (common roots etc.) li…

The whole article is a statistical fallacy. You should never compare "average" growth rates but extreme outcomes. What is the best possible outcome and the worst one in case of ren…