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Psychiatrist Michael Stone explains his 22-point scale of evil, ranging from justified homicide to crimes so shocking and unspeakable they “take your breath away.”
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An interview with the Columbia University forensic psychiatrist.
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The famous developer of Perl talks about his work set-up, how he works best, and why he sometimes procrastinates.
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“But when good taste becomes mandatory, then it’s not really good taste any more—it’s just manners,” says Wall.
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The “Lord of the Rings” characters embody what Wall sees as the three virtues of good programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Programmer Larry Page offers language suggestions to amateur programmers who might not know exactly where to start.
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Computer programming is a lot like writing a recipe. If you’ve read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is and you can copy the format to […]
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“Perl culture is a culture of fun; we really encourage that and do not think that it is in any way counter to the notion of doing good work,” says […]
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Wall’s background in linguistics helped him to create a programming language that borrows bits from other languages, much like English.
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Perl developer Larry Wall says that, like a human language, you can use Perl in many ways—for baby talk, grownup talk, writing poetry or plays, and even cussing.
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A conversation with the founder of the Perl programming language
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The Harvard economist explains why legalizing all drugs—including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine—would be a better policy than the current prohibition.
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If there were a draft, we would never have gone to war in Iraq, says the legendary journalist. The end of the draft has permitted a cowardly politics, a huge […]
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Be a good listener, says the legendary Watergate reporter. “The real purpose of reporting, of journalism is to illuminate what is real, you know, real existential truth.” And that’s about […]
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A reporter has enormous power to hurt people, says the veteran journalist. Therefore you’ve got an obligation to be fair, to find out the other side of the story, and […]
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“Has post-Watergate been a life of hardship? Hell no. It’s been wonderful and then every once in a while you get hit in the face.”
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There are news organizations that, “if they had the same kind of information that Bob Woodward and I had in Watergate would go ahead and print the stories.” But today […]
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The legendary journalist isn’t concerned about the current state of investigative reporting. But he does worry that readers are less interested in serious journalism than they used to be.
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A conversation with the Watergate journalist.
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While the U.K. likes to pretend to have independence, the British isles are closer to rest of Europe than most like to admit.