9:58pm on September 26, 2024 from Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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source: {'title': 'Being Popular', 'creator': 'Paul Graham', 'published': datetime.date(2001, 5, 17), 'url': 'https://paulgraham.com/popular.html', 'text': "It would not be far from the truth to say that a hacker about to write a\nprogram decides what language to use, at least subconsciously, based on the\ntotal number of characters he'll have to type. If this isn't precisely how\nhackers think, a language designer would do well to act as if it were.", 'wordcount': 56, 'html': 'It would not be far from the truth to say that a hacker about to write a\nprogram decides what language to use, at least subconsciously, based on the\ntotal number of characters he’ll have to type. If this isn’t precisely how\nhackers think, a language designer would do well to act as if it were.
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via: {'title': 'Arc (programming language)', 'publication': 'Wikipedia', 'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)'}
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title: Paul Graham, Being Popular, 2001
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