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[...] ;by whatever means—to be interesting to them personally. Crowd-driven aggregators like Hacker News sift though and filter all of the myriad blog posts for those that are “popular” [...]

[...] or a thousand nay-sayers. I can tell you flat out, I am grateful you wrote your message to Hacker News. It struck something in me. It is striking something in other people. It is making people think. [...]

[...] by thinking about it in an unexpected way? This is who we are and what we do. (Discuss on hacker news. And have a look at my new book, CoffeeScript Ristretto) Permalink [...]

[...] or online. The Lightweight Languages mailing list, the Joel on Software forums, Reddit, and the Hacker News communities have made me feel welcome and valued as a human being. I can’t think of a [...]

[...] My very first Leanpub book was Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity. It's a collection of my internet essays about combinatory logic [...]

[...] is actually my second JavaScript book. It's like this: In the summer, I published Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity. (The entire book is online for free, so don't hesitate to click [...]

[...] , and MeshU. I'm the author of CoffeeScript Ristretto, JavaScript Allongé, Kestrels, Quirky Birds and Hopeless Egocentricity, What I've Learned from Failure, and How to Do What You Love [...]

[...] Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity was my first technical book. It's a reprinted and tidied up [...]

[...] My very first Leanpub book was Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity. It's a collection of my internet essays about combinatory logic and its application to [...]

[...]  JavaScript book. It's like this: In the summer, I published Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity. (The entire book is online for free, so don't hesitate to click the link). I was [...]

[...] author of CoffeeScript Ristretto, JavaScript Allongé, Kestrels, Quirky Birds and Hopeless Egocentricity, What I've Learned from Failure, and How to Do What You Love and Earn What You' [...]

[...] factor my mental model of ideas and implications ignores. The Most Important Thing A programming language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth learning.—Alan [...]

[...] a precise, unambiguous language and manipulate the parser directly. In other words, a programming language. And note well: Not all programming languages are either "obviously easy to read' and [...]

[...] Any sufficiently powerful strongly typed programming language will be abused to create an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation [...]

A King toured a monastery. He liked what he saw, and after a quiet and stimulating conversation with the senior monks, he asked the Abbott to write hi [...]

A King toured a monastery. He liked what he saw, and after a quiet and stimulating conversation with the senior monks, he asked the Abbott to write hi [...]

[...] , harnessing the greatest computing resources in history, trying to figure out how to get Scott Hanselman to click on ads? Why the fuck are programers strategizing how to pivot Facebook into being a [...]