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Related: How a Completely Blind Manager/Dev Uses Emacs Every Day - Parham Doustdar - https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/08/

You can look at the code in the first commit Linus made. It is a very minimal yet functional version of Git. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23... Edit: T…

Linus describes this and more in his book - Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. Great read

This, exactly!

I had the same reaction initially but then realized that this makes the variable declaration / initialization syntax very consistent. variable: Type [= initial_value]; // initializ…

One commit with as many parents as merged branches. (A git commit can have an arbitrary number of parent commits.) Try git cat-file -p $SHA

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131785

Thank you!

Mind sharing the name of the course?

Twitter's Ruby on Rails problem that the parent mentions - @26:30 https://youtu.be/LjFM8vw3pbU?t=1591

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20792938

Yes. In the Ruby VM, an RVALUE [0] is a union (a "generic type") of structs that represent all the different kinds of Ruby object types and a couple of runtime types. [0] https://s…

"Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture" has an excellent account of how Romero and Carmack built these games.