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> Maybe it's mostly locked up in tribal knowledge and you have to be in the right room with the right people to learn it. This is sad.

• munificent 9y ago
  Tell me about it. As someone who works in programming languages professionally but has no academic background in it, it's maddening how much stuff is impossible to learn because "you can't publish a paper on it because everyone knows it already".
  • mncharity 9y ago
    Similarly in the sciences, the gaps can be surprisingly large between insightful discussion among principals at conferences, and "you have to know the people involved to evaluate them" narrow papers, and misleading texts, and at great remove, introductory material.
  • mncharity 9y ago
    Years ago I dreamed that Lambda the Ultimate had added a wiki, so language implementation was quickening. Waking up... :(