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It really depends on the book for me. Technical topics I already know pretty well, I find easy to commit new methods to memory when I come across them. Nontechnical, I can remember…

It performs perfectly fine on my machine, but I have not done any comprehensive testing. I was actually quite surprised when I first got everything working and was streaming input …

I, too, really love Elm, and have worked on some tooling for getting it running on the server. (Self promotion ahead). I wrote an NPM module for compiling and loading Elm[1], and a…

Aside from the things others have mentioned, which are all really good, there are some really good books on the subject. Jose Valim's Crafting Rails Applications[1] is a wonderful …

It isn't always easy when something does seem to be common knoweldge, but you are correct that people try to be more understanding. I have adopted the attitude from this XKCD comic…

I think this very much oversimplifies the costs. From a hardware standpoint this is probably mostly correct, but the problem is the sheer amount of research and talent behind it is…

I highly recommend The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger[1][2]. It has a very similar style to The C Programming Language, also co-written by Kernighan. Eve…

The beginning of your story reminded me of the wonderful commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005 [1]. It is very easy to well up with rage, but …

I did not find this list particularly useful. It is a nice attempt, but the way it categorizes libraries can be deceptive. I do not think anyone would consider bower and npm to be …

Your book a week comment reminded me of the wonderful What If on XKCD about the infeasibility of reading every English book ever written. https://what-if.xkcd.com/76/

This looks like a solid project. I want to mention mincer[1], which I have used in the past for compiling assets, and it has been an entirely painless process. Definitely take a lo…

Alex at The Daily WTF wrote a great article on this subject. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Database-Changes-Done-Right....

While I agree with making code editable in single lines as much as possible, I think this is a particularly bad example. I do prefer the comma first style for arrays and objects, b…