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		ajuc on Sept 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to buy a tank: a BRDM-2 story It's not pedantic to critique misleading titles. Imagine article "How to build website in assembler" to learn author meant writing it in javascript but it's close enough.

willvarfar on Sept 19, 2014 [–]

Ah you mean asm.js? :D

ajuc on Sept 20, 2014 | [–]

Like you could write website in it :) At some point you need strings.

willvarfar on Sept 26, 2014 | | [–]

(You do know that the programs compiled down to asm.js do actually have strings, right?)

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