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Whenever domain experts communicate, they may seem to be speaking in English (or French, or whatever). But they are not. They are speaking jargon, a specialized language that they've invented as a shorthand for communicating effectively with their peers.

Jaanix is a social news and bookmarking site. Unlike predecessors it is not a democracy, but a marketplace where your attention is the new currency. To get the best results from jaanix you have to "feed" it with clicks, ratings, more...

I wonder if it could help create a better python mode for vim?

array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array

perceived performance is more important than actual performance.

Ruby's Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and the timeout.rb standard library based on them are inherently broken and should not be used for any purpose.

Interesting addition to the python language.