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I don't think you're right that he made up his wife's words to achieve a Socratic dialogue, and then pinned it on his wife. I think she actually did it. The evidence is this commen…

I tried coming up with a proof, but instead I have a new observation I can't explain: FACT: No prime number can end in an even number (because all such numbers are divisible by 2) …

An article titled "The Quiet Ones" was posted by user "wallflower"? That's like a pun. A quiet pun.

As Ray Kurzweil said, "The only second language you should worry about your kids learning is programming." Yale has a foreign language requirement, but no CS requirement. Liberal a…

To the extent that learning languages takes time (it does) and to the extent that setting up an environment takes times (it does) and to the extent that time is money (it is), I'd …

People trade up cars all the time -- when you can afford to, that is.

Sometimes, doing things fast opens up opportunities to do things right.

False dichotomy. You can do some things quickly in PHP (vs other languages), and some things in life and in programming need to be done quickly. There's a place for doing things fa…