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You can only sign up to Mechanical Turk in the US and India. This is presumably due to the legal complexity of paying users.

Blogged: Remacs Talk Transcript

Basic Block Versioning – My Best Result Yet https://pointersgonewild.com/2015/09/24/basic-block-versioning-my-best-result-yet/ (example where dynamic types give more precision and perf than static!)

Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions https://files.clr3.com/papers/2017_anyone.pdf (Suggests that user nudges > bans)

A Nanopass Framework for Commercial Compiler Development [Experience Report] https://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/62423869825/icfp-a-nanopass-framework-for-commercial-compiler (51 passes, 35 IRs, and great results!)

The Concept of a Meta-Font https://www.zigzaganimal.be/elements/the-concept-of-metafont.pdf (beautiful example of making the most of a medium when communicating)

Rust 1.17 is out! https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/04/27/Rust-1.17.html I'm impressed to see the stack trace format being reconsidered: PLs rarely reflect on this UI.

GitLab 9.1 is out! I'm regularly impressed with their ability to refine the notion of code collaboration.

If you wanted to write a program that would still work (without modification) in 20 years, what language/platform would you use, and why?

Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/undef-pldi17.pdf (very readable paper on UB behaviour at the level of compiler IR semantics)

Intrigued by the idea of measuring deploy frequency per software project. Unlike most dev metrics, it's hard to game in a detrimental way.

Fun post comparing metaprogramming with Boost.Hana in C++ vs D:

Type Tailoring https://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/04/type-tailoring.html An incredible post showing how to *extend* Typed Racket at the user macro level!

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