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I think the reference is to Verlan, where the syllables in a word are inverted. It reminds me of "Pig Latin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan

Cooking the bones makes them brittle. They break open easily when chewed, and the sharp edges can perforate the GI tract after they're eaten.

Well put. I wonder if a lot of this comes from classical piano players (which there seem to be a lot of, proportionally?) assuming that everyone who learns piano is necessarily asp…

This brings to mind something Ira Glass said about "the gap": > Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into i…

Couldn't this same reasoning be used to argue that we don't need for loops or functions because we have GOTOs? Boilerplate is tedious and error-prone to write and to read/understan…

If the concern is Uglify slowing down the dev cycle, you could turn it off for development builds.

There's always GOMAD! https://stronglifts.com/gomad-milk-squats-gallon-gain-weight...

For anyone else who happens by and has the same issue, vim had (has?) substandard syntax highlighting for javascript. Pulling in pangloss's vim-javascript ( https://github.com/pang…

I wonder why text editor preferences are so personal. I use the same editor and probably 90% of the same config as this guy and was nodding along until I saw he remapped B and E. H…

Does learning about the Lambda calculus have any take-aways for programming in modern languages, or is it more of a cool toy/mostly of interest for language designers and academics…

Could anyone weigh in on his assessment of Martin Fowler's Refactoring book? I'm considering picking it up - some seem to be of the opinion that its ideas are old news in 2016 and …

In my experience French people are much happier to talk politics than Americans. Possible they are sick of hearing about burkinis right now though.

I had a similar problem working over a metered cellular data connection recently. One thing that helped a lot was the uBlock Origin extension for Chrome & Firefox, which has a feat…

Not as high as it sounds when you consider that the top 20% of earners collect 50% of the income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

“It’s wonderful to have so many hours in my day – I feel like I can live two lives,” she says. ... “There’s this social view that short sleeping is a good thing and should be encou…

It's no different in the midwest, at least in the larger cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, KC, etc).

Is meth a completely different phenomenon? It's prescribed by doctors under the brand name "Desoxyn" for ADHD and narcolepsy - evidently they find more value than harm in it for so…

This might be beside the point, but combinatorics, set theory and algebra are prime examples of discrete mathematics, not continuous.

An electric kettle uses a lot less energy than a pot on the stove to boil water. I wonder how much water you'd need to boil to break even?

Fortunately some research indicates that stoned driving is less cause for concern than drunk driving. One study[1] has found that "THC's effects after doses up to 300 mcg / kg neve…