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FYI regarding that book: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...

Fun fact: Much of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was written/influenced by Simon Peyton Jones, who is at Microsoft Research.

On the other hand, stopping yourself because of fears of imagined rebuke removes you from changing the status quo at all.

Do you own some of this? Are you associated with the project in some way?

Books in a library seem more free than privately owned books.

I'm very unfamiliar with gnome as an organization. What are the political reasons you're referencing?

But affine transformations are indeed not linear. The augmentation trick creates a new, linear transform in n+1 dimension, which is related but different to the affine transform in question.

The categorization in the article seems correct.

Sure, that could totally work. Part of the benefit a type system provides is that those checks are provided for you automatically, every time.

For the Japanese service, did anything prevent users from putting an address that received mail, but wasn't theirs?

> Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective

Documentation or discussion could use language that means some demographic groups aren't comfortable getting involved, when they could otherwise be great contributors. It's a reasonable idea that some people already think computer programming "isn't for them", and that correcting that misconception is important. I agree that people should be judged by their merits, so we should focus on not deterring people for non-technical reasons.

I agree that PDF is effectively universal as a distribution format for graphical and formatted text. There are some cases where plain text is still nicer, like when trying to read documentation without an X server.

Which example did you have in mind?

What was the book?