The importance of bridges

February 20, 2019 10:41 am

From Just An Observer on Don't waste your life on Twitter

"A couple of my favorite bloggers started doing twitter. Instead of permanent additions to knowledge, there is..."

February 20, 2019 3:24 am

From Brennan on Did sleep paralysis start the Salem Witch Trials?

"If you have occasional sleep paralysis, you can take steps at home to control this disorder. Start by making s..."

February 19, 2019 11:09 am

From Ryan Earp on Why I prefer dynamic-typing over static-typing: the speed of adapting to change

"If static typing lead to greater programmer productivity (via a reduction in bugs) then corporate Americ..."

February 3, 2019 2:32 pm

From ruurd on Argument about attraction and sexuality and trans

"wait wait wut? what's the liberals doing here?..."

January 18, 2019 10:22 am

From Justin McGuire on When will the era of CyberPunk end?

"The reason cyberpunk doesn't die is because it all came true. From Noah Smith on twitter: "The cool thing a..."

December 16, 2018 9:06 am

From lawrence on Yair Lapid: What does it say about us that Israel has become the only democracy in the world in which Jews don’t have freedom of religion?

"Cat Mara, thank you for catching that. I've fixed it now. (The URL was a "v" by mistake. Looks like I was tryi..."

December 16, 2018 5:16 am

From Cat Mara on Yair Lapid: What does it say about us that Israel has become the only democracy in the world in which Jews don’t have freedom of religion?

"Broken link?..."

December 12, 2018 7:50 pm

From lawrence on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Jussi Nurminen, thank you for writing. I believe you are correct, in the sense that Python 2.x had all the bas..."

December 12, 2018 5:13 am

From Jussi Nurminen on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Hello! I've lately became a bit more suspicious of OO designs (including my own), so I read your original 2014..."

December 4, 2018 9:22 am

From lawrence on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"GK, thank you for writing, but I don't understand what you mean when you write: "However, at that point you..."

December 4, 2018 7:14 am

From GK on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"A development VM is a fine choice, provided that it comes with tools that make it just as easy to run commands..."

November 30, 2018 7:04 pm

From lawrence on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"GK, thank you for writing. About this part: "That thing is writing portable shell scripts. The moment you n..."

November 30, 2018 1:41 pm

From GK on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"The fat binaries article was nice, but full blown fat binaries are not really necessary. Whats needed is that ..."

November 27, 2018 1:13 am

From lawrence on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Andres Moreno, thank you for writing. Among other points to be said, I'll say I'm almost heart broken about Py..."

November 26, 2018 9:11 pm

From Andres Moreno on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"I am stunned! Why did it take so long to show that the Emperor has no clothes? I got bit by the Lisp bug early..."