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Maybe writing speed is a bottleneck for programming
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BerislavLopac
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Raku: A Language for Gremlins
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uticus
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You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial
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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT
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135 points
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azhenley
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
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3 points
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
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What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
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156 points
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BerislavLopac
11 months ago
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Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021)
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11 months ago
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Finding hard 24 puzzles with planner programming
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11 months ago
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Write the most clever code you possibly can
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11 months ago
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Write the most clever code you possibly can
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11 months ago
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Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+
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3 points
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BerislavLopac
11 months ago
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Write the most clever code you can
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17 points
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todsacerdoti
11 months ago
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Edge Case Poisoning (2020)
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2 points
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12 months ago
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Requirements change until they don't
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Requirements change until they don't
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Requirements change until they don't
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2 points
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12 months ago
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Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" (2022)
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
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108 points
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on April 17, 2025
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Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog
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110 points
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Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness
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BerislavLopac
on March 27, 2025
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Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness
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on March 26, 2025
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Verification-First Development
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65 points
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vinipolicena
on March 18, 2025
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Five Kinds of Nondeterminism
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135 points
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on Feb 19, 2025
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Are efficiency and horizontal scalability at odds?
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49 points
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on Feb 12, 2025
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What hard thing does your tech make easy?
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2 points
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BerislavLopac
on Jan 30, 2025
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The Juggler's Curse
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2 points
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todsacerdoti
on Jan 22, 2025
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Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? (2024)
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79 points
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srijan4
on Jan 21, 2025
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Stroustrup's Rule
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2 points
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signa11
on Dec 23, 2024
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Stroustrup's Rule
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signa11
on Dec 21, 2024
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