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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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38 What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”? Sep 24 '12
21 What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”? Sep 24 '12
21 Do onomatopoeias resist sound change? Jun 5 '12
19 How are mathematical operators like “plus” and “cos” analyzed? Oct 22 '12
14 When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA? Dec 24 '12
10 Relation between some linguistics terms Jan 17 '13
10 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
10 How did the pitch-accent system of Western South Slavic emerge? May 27 '12
10 IPA transcription of the American English “bunched” /r/ Sep 21 '12
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