Shahin Novrasli, From Baku to New York City.

For simple expressions, parentheses are a form of static typechecking. If you model a Lisp as a stack language that evaluates from right to left, each parenthesized block must push exactly one value onto the stack, and must not consume any values. — Parentheses are Just Typechecking

The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. #unix

Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer. #git

Three ways to bulk rename files. #unix

Wald tests via statsmodels (python). #python

Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars.

• Julia: faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
• Is Julia Really Fast?

Two things Perl 5 got right was its lexical scoping rules and support for anonymous functions (“lambdas”). Combine those features and you can make closures. And just what are closures good for? Well it turns out they’re pretty damn powerful; powerful enough, in fact to make a better object system than Perl’s built-in offering. — Perl Closures As Objects

Parallel processing with unix tools. #unix