Monthly Archives: June 2015

Wind powered cars

There’s a neat, long article over at Wait But Why that I found quite interesting. It purports to be about Elon Musk and Tesla (which might dissuade some readers) but it’s actually about climate change and electric cars. I wanted … Continue reading

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Algebraic data types: without them, we all suffer

Perhaps you’ve heard of “stringly typed” code. The use of strings instead of actual, you know, proper data structures, in places where it seems completely inappropriate. Why do programmers write such things? I’m sure some of it is simple bad … Continue reading

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