Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)(paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu)

80 points by ivjw 1 year ago | 10 comments

America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen(danieltan.weblog.lol)

78 points by danieltanfh95 5 months ago | 38 comments

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)(asc.ohio-state.edu)

341 points by ent101 2 years ago | 136 comments

Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)(orwell.ru)

25 points by allthebest 3 years ago | 5 comments

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners(boston.conman.org)

26 points by dmarto 2 months ago | 32 comments