Ben Scofield

I have a vision of a wonderful future.A future without arguments about camelCase and snake_case.A future without debates over tabs and spaces.A future without forcing people to write code in a style they dislike.A future without linters.“Impossible!...

One of the reasons researchers focus on experts instead of expertise is that it seems easier to find the one than the other — you can look to community-acclamation, or to the gold medalists, or to people with 2500+ Elo ratings and pick out “experts,...

North Carolina has a complicated history with voter rights. In 2016 alone, some 60,000 voters were denied a regular ballot because of problems with the voter rolls — and as political engagement and enthusiasm to vote is increasing around the country...

One of the guiding principles of the Perl programming language is TMTOWTDI — there’s more than one way to do it (where “it” is “pretty much anything you want to use Perl to do”). Interestingly, for most (interesting) domains, this is true of expertise...