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taybin··on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
No mention of “baz”
taybin··on What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
They don't post the bad photos onto instagram. You really need to figure this out or you're going to be chasing other people's dreams. All your comments just talk about how you want to make more money, when you're already making a lot of money.
taybin··on What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
This is the sort of race where once you get to the end, you realize you were racing against yourself. Stop comparing your blooper reel to their highlight reel. It's not healthy. I guarantee there are people envious of your life.
taybin··on The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language (1986)
I have this book. I read it while working on my senior project, which was adding the Actor concurrency model to Icon. A pretty easy read. The Icon language was so innovative. It was my secret weapon in college.
taybin··on Bill Gates warns on future disease epidemic
How do we know that they don't? I'm sure they have procedures for biological warfare responses.
taybin··on Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?
It's a good question. My bias is that it often does not, and that the current investors make sure it does not. However, it also isn't in people's interest to advertise that they have a lot of money suddenly, so I'm not sure we'll see some good answers here.
taybin··on Online gambling firm Bet365 has swapped Java for Erlang
Who wants to hire some 'wah, syntax is hard' programmers?
taybin··on There exists a classical model of the photon after all
"if the fundamental particles are just quasiparticles in a superfluid quantum vacuum"

well obviously.

taybin··on The Expert in a Year Challenge
It will be interesting to see how well Gladwell's claim stands up to empirical testing.
taybin··on How does ActiveRecord#find work?
Maybe we can get Morgan Freeman to narrate the source code of TeX.
taybin··on Twitter Confirms New Google Firehose Deal
Ugh. I avoid twitter like the plague already. Luckily it'll be easy to ignore in the results.
taybin··on The torus is the product of two circles, cubically
Cool. Now multiply a circle with a pyramid. Yes, a 3D pyramid.
taybin··on What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth
The ground is frozen solid.
taybin··on GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang
Isn't it more lines of code now?
taybin··on What can I only do in Erlang?
He learned prolog at the lab?
taybin··on The Hypercard Legacy
I completely agree. Natural Language style programming with AppleScript is incredibly difficult. I don't think hypertalk was that much better.
taybin··on Assembly for XML
They don't really do jokes here...
taybin··on Y U NO commit??
Because it's funny. Don't be a grumpy programmer.
taybin··on Startup School Doodle Notes 2014
Hang in there, Kitty!

Nice formatting.

taybin··on Training for the End of the World as We Know It
They have that fantastic 'enimga' encryption.
taybin··on Devices being remotely wiped in police custody
"The hard drive is constantly looking for GSM [Global System for Mobile Communications] signals, if it is starved of them it it would destroy itself. It would see such a bag as a threat," said James Little, head of sales at SecureDrives"

Don't take your laptop on the subway!

taybin··on We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down
It sounds like they don't really care about that. And good for them.
taybin··on GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia
also "Turn Yourself Into Hydrogen Bomb" and "Nanomachines"
taybin··on Ask HN: Who's working making the world a better place?
Not against. Just neutral.
taybin··on I Had a Stroke at 33
This was on buzzfeed?? Crazy. Didn't think those soul-less bottom-feeders would turn to quality long-form essays.
taybin··on A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading
I think the idea that after a business failure someone needs 'redemption' is harmful. Sometimes businesses fail and the person doesn't try to start another business, and that's okay.
taybin··on Elixir v1.0.0 released
Actually, it compiles to Core Erlang, which compiles to BEAM bytecode.

Core Erlang is pretty unreadable though, so I do think it's a bit more complex than CoffeeScript.

taybin··on How serious is the California drought? Before and after pictures
Oh, you're right. They must not be having a drought then.
taybin··on The sad devolution of Discovery Channel
Remember when MTV used to play videos?
taybin··on Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
Aren't you curious as to why?
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