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nordicway··on Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem
This is really nothing new. "Ethical problems will never be resolved by a software tool" [1]

The author uses a straw man argument that plagiarism detection software promises to "replace the professor" when in fact, it is just a tool.

Besides, there are highly sophisticated ways of cheating that even a professor would not catch reliably. I wrote my undergrad thesis about plagiarism and it was interesting to learn that there are students who are highly motivated to "beat the system" instead of doing the task properly.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248606848_Support_f...

nordicway··on Pony – High Performance Actor Programming
How does the "your concurrent program can never have data races" claim go along with Actor model indeterminism and message interleaving?
nordicway··on Don't depend on JavaScript to render your page
At least in Angular, you can just use ngCloak to avoid the flickering:

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngCloak

nordicway··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
I've been using Anki for a hybrid approach to learn for some university courses, learning with the Android app during commute and physical paper cards at home. shameless plug: I wrote a small tool to export Anki decks to PDF: https://github.com/nordicway/a2pdf Only works for simple cards though.