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A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types
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Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
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How Python grew from a language to a community
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Why doctors hate their computers (2018)
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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)
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Names are not type safety (2020)
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Learnable Programming (2012)
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This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996)
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Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme
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I was fresh at university, around 2001, and our mathematics professor introduced us to Python with NumPy/SciPy as an alternative to the commercial math tools. There aren't many events that changed my career as much as that. Being exposed only to compiled languages before that, it blew my mind. It was friendly, expressive and came with batteries included.
There was a huge sense of community around Python, that I didn't really see elsewhere in the programming world. It started with these scientific libraries. Python wouldn't be what Python is today without NumPy. It was nice to see in the last years the boost of the Python scientific community, with basically anything machine learning using Python as the DSL.