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With a strong base and today’s ease of access to information, picking up new language is surprisingly easy.

As someone who has gone through the same journey, this article strikes me as surprisingly shallow.

In fact, they are surprisingly similar to the entity being described in the article.

From [0]: > She connected me with Andreessen’s due diligence team who were surprisingly open with all the technical analysis they had done.

It has a very nice IDE, and is growing surprisingly quickly.

There are some surprisingly clean and well-written large codebases out there.

Over the last few days I have done my first deployment of an Apache/MySQL/Passenger/Rails system and it was a surprisingly painless process.

It is used surprisingly little by the ordinary masses.

Not surprisingly, many want more than what they have...

Once I got to know spacemacs shortcut layout, it was surprisingly intutive.

Ads catered to me are surprisingly garbage.

I think you're correct but I don't think the author was arguing his version was Tolkien's intention, just that it fits the evidence surprisingly well.

Surprisingly most normal folks don't really get what "follow" means, and the slightly arcane terminology of twitter.

> Surprisingly most normal folks don't really get what "follow" means, and the slightly arcane terminology of twitter.

This "theory" is surprisingly predictive because, amazingly enough, women choose to be paid less money than men even while doing the very same job, so it must be right.

The Immortality of Bits" is one of the worst, and makes this claim: "Surprisingly, as a consequence of software eating the technology industry itself, the specifics of the hardware are not important in this evolution.

Surprisingly the apps worked even on much later versions of Windows than were current when Delphi 1 was released, though of course the widgets looked old-style.

Surprisingly you spend a lot more time at your desk remote than in an office.