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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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10 Where is the “pere” in “ammeter”? Dec 15 '12
9 When does the name prefix “Mc” take stress? Jul 9 '12
7 Is “po-TAH-to” an acceptable pronunciation for “potato”? May 23 '12
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