pilingual
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"Pilingual" is a term from Douglas Hofstadter's book, Le Ton beau de Marot where he describes himself as knowing π languages.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg was good at programming, but he was a psychology major, not a CS major.
"For Zuckerberg, the school’s major selling point was its Latin program. The current computer science concentrator originally intended to study classics at Harvard."[0]
There's a book called Founders at Work by one J. Livingston. I'd suggest replacing Zuckerberg with an incredible founder who was interviewed in that book, Steve Perlman.
Livingston: Were you an engineering major ?
Perlman: No, I have a liberal arts background. My engineering background is as a hobbyist. ... I designed a software-based modem when I was in college and I got an F for it because the professor said it would never work. But I got it working at my first company. I sent him an email later on and said, "This email is being sent to you on the modem that I designed at Columbia."
Comment · 2 months ago
Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and Aaron Schaffer from the Washington Post also wrote a shameful article on this topic on August 4th (the title changed, along with an image of a woman who was harassed to something else). No counterpoint. Total submarine article.
Comment · 2 months ago
Paul Graham mentioned Pangram the other day.
I went to the site and pasted something into the text box. The next step was to sign up.
I don't trust Pangram.
Comment · 3 months ago
Namecheap has been owned by a private equity firm for several months now.
It would be nice to have a nonprofit registrar so jumping every few years isn't necessary.