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X: It's 4 o'clock in the morning, why on earth are you writing a spam filter? Me: Because I've lost control of my life

to be fair, I was kinda bored

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Marceline - I'm Just Your Problem

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Maybe there should be a periodic public service announcement about not using "eval". This time I will communicate in FAQ format: Q: How do I use eval? A: Don't use eval. Q: But don't so many academic books feature eval prominently, so doesn't that mean I should use try to eval? A: Those books use eval for pedagogic reasons, or because the author is enamored of some theoretical appeal of eval, or because the author wants to watch the world burn. Don't use eval. Q: But, but, but, I am just starting to learn, and eval seems to do what I need. A: Eval is almost certainly not what you want. Learn how to use the other basics effectively. Don't use eval. Q: I now am very comfortable with the language, I am aware that I should avoid eval in almost all cases, and I can tell you why eval is actually the right thing in this highly unusual case. A: Cool, that's why eval is there.

Neil Van Dyke

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Tokyo Ghoul Opening

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Deep in the complicated labyrinth of code that this test invokes, beneath debugger callbacks, sandboxes and nested event loops, lies an exception. This exception lay sleeping since the dawn of time, held captive in a delicate balance of custom xpcshell error reporters and garbage data about the XPCCallContext stack. But bholley dug too greedily, and too deep, and awoke shadow and flame in the darkness of nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp. We must now trust in deep magic to ensure that it does not awaken again.

gecko-dev

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... and I was like:

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The Making of Neon Signs

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When we diminish a mode, we are saying we want it to continue doing its work for us, but we no longer want to be reminded of it. It becomes a night worker, like a janitor; it becomes an invisible man; it remains a component, perhaps an important one, sometimes an indispensable one, of the mechanism that maintains the day-people's world, but its place in their thoughts is diminished, usually to nothing. As we grow old we diminish more and more such thoughts, such people, usually to nothing.

Will Mengarini in diminish.el

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There are two beauties in computer science. There is the scientific beauty and the artistic beauty. Nearly all of the physical world, no matter how complex, can be abstracted using equations. The Maxwell Equations describe why light exists, and why you can't have a magnet with one pole. The Lorentz Force describes how most power plants work, and how swiping a credit card at a cash register works. Everything around you, from galaxies to subatomic particles, has been summarized with some sort of equation. While physics can provide equations on the physical world, computer science can provide equations on thought. (We just usually call these equations "algorithms", because it's a series of methods rather than one equation.) De Morgan's theorem describes a simple way to minimize negating logical expressions. Public key encryption is used nearly every time you do anything somewhat private online. There are dozens of sorting algorithms, like merge sort an quick sort, that try to optimize making order out of disorder. Algorithms allowed IBM's Deep Blue to defeat Garry Kasparov at chess. Algorithms make it possible for Google to search through billions of websites, and find results for you in a fraction of a second. Algorithms can identify handwriting, draw 3D worlds, and solve puzzles much better and faster than any human could, by using a system of equations. Computer science is also an art. Writing good code is like writing a good book. Every book starts with a blank piece of paper, but what really matters is what is on the paper. Every Dickens novel, every Shakespeare play, and every Frost poem are made from the same physical materials, but they exist as entire worlds of thought and structure and imagination. Likewise, every single computer program started with an empty text prompt. When you sit down at a text editor, the potential ranges from making the words "Hello world" pop up on the screen to writing the software that put the Curiosity rover on Mars. Every piece of software from Facebook to "World of Warcraft", from the software that handles your bank account to the software that handles your toaster, from Unix to Netscape Navigator, all started with somebody typing away at a keyboard.

Helix_van_Boron on The beuty of Computer Science

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan on books