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There is an entire paper looking at the history, meaning and cultural significance of the foo, bar, baz words: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2

Carbon paper was also a key part of Samizdat production in the Eastern bloc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat (which is why my family still has piles of it in the attic somew…

Should be fixed now!

The videos are now up again.

Fixed now!

For anyone interested in the slides & videos, those are now accessible again! Sorry for the technical issues (it was not the HN effect, but a migration to a new disk...).

Yes, this is fully open - I'm posting all the materials and videos as the course goes (but the server is down at the moment - should be back up soon).

Seems like someone needs to restart some server somewhere. I'll investigate. Videos should be back up soon :)

The article uses TfL signage from Kings Cross as an example of clear and crisp direction. This is a bit funny, because Kings Cross signate (specifically) sometimes directs you to t…

Thanks for a nice comment!

I was looking through the comments to see if someone mentioned Jean Bartik already! Just to add to this comment, she also wrote an autobiographical book, which is worth reading: ht…

For those who want to compare this 1971 article with a 2018 talk by the very same person (and see that his arguments remain relevant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qAPvYdXgM

I think a useful reference here is the idea of "wicked problems", which is a kind of problem where the structure of the problem makes it hard to solve - because you cannot even kno…

Author here - there are better emulators (I used this one myself for testing things out: https://www.retrodevops.com/c64.html ). You are absolutely right that my POKE is not like t…

This is very odd! I handle the input myself (so that it can look like C64 console), but this is done via pretty simple "window.onkeypress" and "window.onkeydown" - so if it receive…

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll get it fixed :-).

Author here - thanks for the nice words about the article!

It's not just that alchemy was not "scientifically disproven" in Newton's time. There was no such thing as "scientific" and "pseudo-scientific". Reading about Newton's thinking abo…

I'm a lecturer (assistant professor) in computer science at University of Kent in the UK. I did my undergraduate degree and Masters at Charles University in Czechia and later a PhD…

There is a link to the answer right on the page under "Editorial Expression of Concern". This answers how it bypassed an ethics council: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.1…

Another person to talk to would be Brooks Paige, who recently joined UCL: https://tbrx.github.io/ This is totally not my area of research (I'm a PL person), but I know Brooks from …

The history of how the pipe operator got into F# is documented here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2011/05/17/archeologi...

I'm this case, there is virtual-dom dependency, one more file with some code to simplify the creation of UI and whatever Fable (F# to JS) provides. So it's not 100 lines, but there…

I don't have much experience with Elm or Purescript, but one nice thing about F# with Fable is that it's a pretty flexible language that let's you do things in many ways and integr…

Haha, thanks for linking to this thread! This was definitely an idea that I've been thinking about for some time and this thread is a part of it. As pointed out in a comment elsewh…