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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.

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41 What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”? Sep 24 '12
22 What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”? Sep 24 '12
22 Do onomatopoeias resist sound change? Jun 5 '12
20 When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA? Dec 24 '12
19 How are mathematical operators like “plus” and “cos” analyzed? Oct 22 '12
12 IPA transcription of the American English “bunched” /r/ Sep 21 '12
12 Are the Russian “фрязин” and Thai “ฝรั่ง” (farang) related? Feb 2 '13
11 Relation between some linguistics terms Jan 17 '13
11 Change of B > W in casual speech Dec 18 '12
10 Why exactly is *“I Am America (And So Can You!)” ungrammatical? May 24 '12
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