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mxtbccagmailcom··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Time to place some adversarial code into GitHub to pollute training set?
mxtbccagmailcom··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Time to put adversarial code into GitHub to pollute the training set?
mxtbccagmailcom··on Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]
If you're interested in APL and array programming languages (j, k, q, BQN) take a listen to The Array Cast at https://www.arraycast.com/
mxtbccagmailcom··on Ask HN: What non-American news sources do you recommend?
CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada is America's biggest trading partner so we keep a close eye on the States and what is happen there and how it will effect us.
mxtbccagmailcom··on Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]
My first professional development language. It was old, when I started to use it in 1986. You had to be disciplined - 'cus' writing spaghetti was way too easy. My style was "structured goto's". :-) You got to remember this language was written on a PDP-7 with 4k -that's 4096 bytes- of main memory and before Edsger Dijkstra's letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", published in March 1968.

Wrote a simple web server with it for a VAX in 1999.

Loved how you saved data to disk. You just but a ^ in front of a variable declaration:

   ^myData
myData could be a "hash map" by doing an assignment with parameters

   set ^myData("canada", "bc", "yyj") = counter
Thinking about it there's not a whole lot of distance between it and javascript. Guess that's why I like JS so much!