nritchie

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   by nritchie 3y ago

   I first noticed it with Rush Limbaugh in the 90's. The message was "you can't trust X, you can only trust the invisible hand of the market." Systematically, these (mostly right-wing) talking heads have worked through a
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   by nritchie 3y ago

   Turbo Pascal was a game changer. Prior to this, I'd been learning to code with Computer Innovations C compiler. It required multiple compiler passes involving swapping floppy disks. What a pain. Turbo Pascal was small, compiled fas
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   by nritchie 3y ago

   Or unitful.jl in Julia which evaluates the units at compile time resulting in no performance loss at runtime.