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Stages of Denial (2020)
It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps you were idly browsing your favorite news aggregator, or visiting The Orange Website to wade through murky startup groupthink in search of interesting links.
Before a treatise can work its way out of your fingers on the value of simple code which is comprehensible to even the most junior Stanford-educated Google employee, (optimization being the root of all evil, as you once read, paraphrased) someone else points out that a more direct translation into another language might look like: J and APL have K’s right-to-left evaluation (in annoying defiance of PEMDAS, for some reason), the/ symbol means “reduce”, and you can add 5 to an entire matrix at once as easily as a single number. You have dutifully broken down the definition into reusable parts and given them clear, meaningful names, a best-practice that you learned in your earliest programming courses and have carried forward throughout your professional career.
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