I second this. In quantitative finance cubic splines are often, simply, out of the question. However, we end up using montonic cubic splines quite often.
I share your opinion. I found the book Real World Haskell very useful http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ It has a few nice chapters about system programming, database interactions and a few other use cases.
I am a native Arabic speaker, I enjoyed the article, however there are a few mistakes.
In 2. The exceptions are called plural exceptions which happen much less than the general rule, Otherwise most of Arabic follows a very specific rule to making plurals from singulars.
In 7. Adjectives have no gender, and therefore al-kutub hadra' (الكتب حضراء) "The books, she is green" this translates to the books are green (hadra is an adjective and has no gender)
In 9. Formally Arabic numbers are read right to left, i.e. we read the least significant digit first. Although very few people do this.
In 10. It is next to impossible to understand any written text which is a 1000 years by the average Joe, including the Qur'an