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In my opinion, it's better to learn C first because it forces you to do a lot of painful memory management manually. You tend to really appreciates Rust's features when you underst…

It might not be wise to accuse people of having an "agenda", when the only source cited is a Guardian article (which is known to have a bias). The debate around culpability is vast…

Would be interesting to see the visitors by country (per capita) version too.

Is that a red herring? The contention here is that one country does not allow the other to do business in their territory, yet complains when their product is threatened with a ban…

Perhaps it depends on the audience. For a non-CS person, it's a pretty good introduction to solvability vs verifiability, and how seemingly similar math operations are quite asymme…

I just learned that the RSS feed on Paul Graham's blog is generated by, and hosted at, aaronsw.com [1, 2]. Who is maintaining this code and domain? I'd be impressed if the scraper …

The redesign does not look good. The colour scheme just defies logic and big rounded buttons don't improve usability in any way. Why has Google sworn to let down a large chunk of i…

Don’t say it.

Isn't crypto plagued with the same problems? Sure fiat isn't perfect but it doesn't look like crypto is solving any of those problems, as exemplified here.