rubystallion

He's the author of Odin, so he has experience writing compilers, so he also wrote a toy compiler in his language as a fun weekend project I guess. Of course it's only a good learning resource for people familiar with Odin. I don't know much about Odin, but from glancing at the code it looks like there are some memory management related features that he's using, which would look uglier in other languages.

Why was system wc implemented in a slower way than a naive C version?

Would be nice to have an implementation in pure ruby of this to play around with. In the meantime it's good the article is well illustrated.

I think in this case it's mostly because of groupthink and respect for authority. Many Chinese probably think "This doesn't seem right, but I don't understand politics and the people in charge have decades of experience, so I'm sure they do the right thing". And because of the seniority system the people in charge are often very old and have formed their value system during the tumultuous and poor Mao Zedong era.

I assume machine learning doesn't work well enough when the photo gets shared to friends of friends and facebook has to compare the bikini shots against 10,000 other users

Is soliciting inappropriate images from minors still illegal, if it's made impossible for employees to see them and the images are not stored?

Because there will be no outsiders who flag inappropriate content