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e19 – All the words with Erin McKean

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This episode we talk with Erin McKean, founder of online dictionary Wordnik, about her history of processing and analyzing words with NeXT boxes, OS/2, and the Mac. We discuss self-identifying as a programmer, HyperCard qualifying as math, and hardcoded Danish comments.

Links for this episode:

  • Erin McKean
    • Wordnik
  • Adopt-a-Word
  • @emckean
  • erinmckean.com
  • Erin's talks: TED, XOXO, The Linguistics of JavaScript
  • on The Setup
  • Pascal
  • NeXT computers
  • Scott Foresman publishing
  • OS/2
  • CompuServe
  • HyperCard
    • iOS pantry apps
  • Wordnik's stack: Mongo, Scala, Node.js
  • Kory Stamper on revising "god"
  • odd OCR errors in the Google Books corpus
  • hard copy Wikipedia
  • the Cupertino effect
  • Marked by Brett Terpstra
  • Jason Scott at the Internet Archive
    • ...more
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