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hawkwon Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming

Sorry, that wasn't meant to read as sarcastic or critical, I actually think Mochi is really neat. I love Scala, basically because it adds pattern matching to Java, and am really happy to see Python get a similar treatment.

hawkwon Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming

So Mochi : Python as Scala : Java? Neato.

hawkwon GitHub Student Developer Pack

This is wicked cool. I am really happy to see this.

hawkwon TXR: A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

Purely out of curiosity: what is it that you do that forces you to work with COBOL on a daily basis?

hawkwon Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign

Footnote typesetting is abominable, too.

hawkwon Use Python in Excel without add-ins

Not sure if I see an actual use case for this since we live in a world that has Pandas, but I'm impressed.

hawkwon No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Problem for Twitter

I feel like Wired goes back and forth a lot - some of their articles (on a number of topics, not just computer-related) are pleasingly technical and I've really enjoyed them, and some feel really watered down. Probably, it depends on the individual writer.

hawkwon No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Problem for Twitter

As a Scala enthusiast, it's neat to see one of my pet languages get press, but...a "software engineering technology called Scala"? Did you mean "programming language"?

hawkwon CodeSpells – Craft Magical Spells Using Code [video]

Enochian?

Also, I recall there being a reference to an Enochian Metagrammar at one point or another...

hawkwon Galileo satellites experience orbital injection anomaly on Soyuz launch

Yeah, that's a good trick - I was thinking specifically of the benefits of launching into an inclined orbit vs. the incredibly painful process of gravity turn, circularize, change inclination, and circularize again...

hawkwon Galileo satellites experience orbital injection anomaly on Soyuz launch

If there's one thing I've learned from Kerbal Space Program, it's that inclination changes are Hard and Scary...

hawkwon Gura: Iterator-Oriented Programming Language

Icon was actually one of the first programming languages I learned, way back in elementary school. Thank you for reminding me of this.

hawkwon HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

Oops.

hawkwon The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones

If there's no money to be extracted from it, then it's dead in the eyes of industry.

hawkwon Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame

I assumed this was about whole brain simulation / emulation. Needless to say, I was disappointed.

hawkwon Two Dope Hackers

Seriously, I have no idea what's going on here.

hawkwon Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

Looks like we crashed his webhost. :(

hawkwon Privacy is not dead

Ah yes, Sweden. A place where there is no technology. At all.

hawkwon How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language

Okay, I'll admit that the whitespace crack at the end was pretty funny.

hawkwon Github now supports rendering tabular data

The fact that I have to click on something to see language breakdowns is a problem. The fact that I have to refresh the repo page to make the language breakdowns go away is a bigger problem.

hawkwon Free Schnail Mail for life

Took me a couple moments to figure out this was a joke.

hawkwon Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

ITT: journalists don't "get" programming.

hawkwon Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

Oh no! The hackers are coming with their terrible powers of "subversion"!

hawkwon Math, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard

...at Berea College.

hawkwon Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)

Kary Mullis, the inventor of polymerase chain reaction, is an HIV denialist.

hawkwon Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use

Yeah, this is marketing/ad advice, not UI advice.