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You might try emailing them, they've renamed other accounts before.

Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer

That reminds me of Isaac Asimov's[0] story in Asimov Laughs Again about being confused with Arthur C. Clarke[1]. They had similar writing styles, so it was quite common for Isaac's…

Kaze Emanuar[0] is the YouTuber you're thinking of. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64

Are you referring to Jevon's Paradox[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

You're thinking of Stefan Mandel's International Lotto Fund[0]. They tried to buy every ticket in the Virginia state lottery in 1992. They won the money, but IIRC there were years …

(submitter) Here's the abstract. Stefan Mandel is the man who won the lottery 14 times. He never disclosed the recipe he called combinatorial condensation, which enabled him to hit…

These days, we have many better options, but back in the day, Fortran was also used for compilers (e.g., IBM's Fortran H), operating systems (such as PRIMOS[0] and LTSS[1]), symbol…

It's a short story and not a novel, but there's the short story August Heat[0]; it's available at [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Heat_(short_story) [1] https://www.s…

Esperanto is probably the most widely spoken international auxiliary language[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_auxiliary_langua...

TypeScript definitely won't add checked exceptions, because Anders Hejlsberg considers them a mistake[0]. [0] https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

> That's why Uncle Sam is nice to have on your side. A libertarian utopia or corporate controlled trading zone doesn't stand a chance without the backing of a sovereign with a mili…

C++20 added designated initializers, so they're also an option. my_func({.arg1 = val1, .arg2 = val2});

clang has the __builtin_unpredictable() intrinsic[0] for this purpose. [0] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#builtin-...

My guess is it was stored in a document management system[0] and then checked out locally to that path. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

Jeremy Allison tracked down why POSIX standardized this behavior[0]. The reason is historical and reflects a flaw in the POSIX standards process, in my opinion, one that hopefully …

BCPL[0], BLISS[1], and Forth[2] are all untyped. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming…

If you're interested in prior art, Ian Currie's NewSpeak was an attempt at a non-Turing complete language for safety critical systems. Most of the search results are for a differen…

As a concrete example, Carlos Bueno's Mature Optimization Handbook[0] describes how the HHVM team got substantial performance wins by reducing instruction cache misses in rarely ex…

At my last job, I had to patch a binary for one of our internal .NET applications. The application was hardcoded to connect to a specific database, but we needed it to work with a …

GCC will generate the shlx instruction if you add the -mbmi2 flag to your build options. For example, you can see this in action here: https://godbolt.org/z/asb1fxos5 .

We had a similar rule for application support at my last job. Anyone who introduced an application was assigned as the support lead.