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Pointless: a scripting language for learning and fun.
Expressions in Pointless are normally evaluated eagerly. There are exceptions to this rule, like the branches of conditional statements, as described previously. There are two other important instances where the language introduces laziness: lists and definitions.
September 1993. Before then, the internet was primarily a university thing, and in university settings, fall semester starts in September, so you had a whole freshman class getting their first networked computer access and often doing rude things with it, especially in the eyes of the Sys Admins who had to deal with it. The problem was, in 1993, you started having the WorldWideWeb, and thus there would always be an influx of new users who continue to behave in ways Sys Admins consider rude. And that influx never stopped. — TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded
Break on NaN in gdb, or how to detect “not a number” edge cases in C. #clang
Lot of interesting Stata programs for epidemiology and econometrics. #stata
I happened to finish to transfer 200 Go of data over home wifi to an 8 year old Time Machine. It tooks a night, and part of a day, btw.
