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Amazon, please hire this person and pay them whatever they ask.

I started teaching myself in the early 80s on an Atari 400 with Atari BASIC. At elementary school, I got some coaching from the librarian in Apple Logo. By sixth grade, I had parti…

"wait for" and "for parallel" seem useful. Are they inspired by constructs in other languages, or do they have analogs in other languages?

It's also worth mentioning that surveillance is not news for poor and minority communities. Incursions on privacy justified by the "war on drugs" have been going on for decades in …

The notion that defectors are lavishly rewarded -- a notion that Snowden encouraged in his comment about palaces and petting a phoenix -- is at odds with the historical record. Con…

Russia has an "asylum-giving, human-rights protecting" image? Even if you were to believe that Russia is acting to protect Snowden out of anything but national self-interest -- doe…

He had to settle on Russia because his first choice, China, sent him packing.

Wait, isn't Russia the "first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless"? You kidder, you, Edward Snowden.

It doesn't matter whether Snowden has physical assets on his person. If he knows things that could be useful to Russian intelligence, which he certainly does, and if he can access …

Bully for Node, but to compare apples to apples, you should count from when the packaging system was released, not from when the language was released. Node's numbers wouldn't look…

I assumed this was because a pool of funds had been set up to prop up Romney's odds to make him appear more viable -- or at least to stave off a story that Intrade users were betti…

"Context" in Perl. Values undergo implicit conversion when assigned depending on whether the LValue receiving the assignment is a scalar or a list type. Perl functions can detect c…