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bigkmon Has Python killed Ruby?

Python's philosophy of "explicit is better than implicit" kind of dies when you get to types. Even the docs are quite vague on this too.

bigkmon Ask HN: To those who became fluent in a second language, what did you do?

Haven't become fluent but the trick is to trick your brain into thinking in the other language

bigkmon Self-Driving Mercedes Will Prioritize Occupant Safety Over Pedestrians

Are we going to see driving tests for autonomous cars ?

bigkmon Jane, John, Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction

Oh but when I have trouble calling your company because they changed the gender of my record that's ok then.

Edit: I get passed around between call center people because they think I'm fraudulent because of software guessing this bullshit

bigkmon Linux Kernel Module Example: Rickroll

This would be a fun idea if it weren't overrideing open. What happens when I open a file called "3" (the author assumes that ever file ends with a . And 3 char ext)