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The video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTQAasG_qk8

Story of how BR is gutting its Elixir/Erlang/OTP infra in favour of Node.JS and other mid technologies.

Redditor creates a photorealistic portrait of George Washington as a modern-day politician

This map is more interesting than I first thought. It’s a minimalist take on the US and shows a simplified average colour pattern across the nation based on satellite images. Source:

For those who are interested, here is the post in r/wsb drawing up the play to gamma squeeze $GME and send the HFs to the hospital.

It’s a thing of beauty.

The guy who started the original reddit meme has turned his $50k investment into $21.95 million.

I cannot believe that is a true sentence.

Nature's Aircraft : The Peregrin Falcon can reach diving speeds up to 240mph #birdtwitter

When you wait around long enough, someone is bound to do the project you thought about and never did. Anki reimplemented in clojure. Nice!

RT @simongerman600: Learning geomorphology with Tupperware. Source:

Oh man, I couldn't agree more with @kmett. Years ago I was horrified that Python people prefixed methods with '_' to mark them private. Now I'm convinced it's the right way to go. Or some kind of dynamic scope so I can fool with internals as I please.

RT @standupmaths: Love it. This is kind of absolute units I want to see in /r/memes

As a German who is used to saying it’s “sixteen o’clock” I wholeheartedly agree with this chart. Source:

Brutal but accurate description of type level programming in Haskell.

When a #programming language feature suddenly turns into a #philosophy debate:

#Python

Map shows us how England is divided linguistically. Source:

Humorous map shows what the word "Yankee" means across the world. Source: #badgeographyjoke

El Corcel on west morris

Facebooks switched to mercurial from git for "scaling" reasons ;)

see project about implementing go like channels in nim using lthreads and chan projects.

on ruby's technical debt

on "Why I love mathematics"

Graham's ANSI Common Lisp supplemented with Chris Riesbeck's notes
Land of Lisp: very fun book that uses games to explain concepts. I think it goes great with Practical Common Lisp
Succesful Lisp by Lamkins: I wish I'd read this one earlier. It's geared towards beginners but makes a lot of things explicit.

some good links on lisp too.

There are different ways to run things in parallel: Eg: Make, waf ...