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Mar 26, 2015 at 18:52

TIL you should use "use strict"; in node programs too. Caught me by surprise!

Jan 18, 2025 at 04:30

TIL Advent of Code and Project Euler will deliberately look for puzzles where the naive solution is worse than quadratic. This ensures that people can solve them with any programming language. You don't want fast languages to be able to use the naive solution.

Oct 16, 2024 at 03:26

TIL Drupal has a credit system to give preferential treatment to people and organisations who contribute regularly!

Solving the Maker-Taker problem

How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal's contribution credit system and recommendations for WordPress and other open source communities.

Oct 9, 2024 at 05:30

TIL Tcl has a notion of 'safe interpreters', a mode where you can run untrusted code in a sandbox: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/safe.htm Not many programming languages have this, but it's way safer to include in the implementation than try to build as a userland library.

Tcl Tcl Built-In Commands - Safe manual page

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