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by mjul 5y ago
Another common use case is product configuration where you need to fit different parts into a compatible whole. For example, "I already have Machines A and B with control system S, but now I want to add Machines C and D from another ve
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Logic programming is extremely powerful in offering the option to essentially run your program in reverse, asking “given this output, which inputs would cause that?” Even if you don’t use it as your principal application language it is a gr
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Type providers are novel. It is a mechanism to provide type safe access to structured data and data services with almost no code. It feels like magic. Like other ML-derived languages (F# is an OCaml dialect) it has algebraic data types and
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Sustainable coffee grown in Finland with cellular agriculture(vttresearch.com)
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In summary they noticed that their e2e suite mostly caught integration errors where clients and servers had incompatible schemas for the data exchange. The novelty is that they found a much faster way to identify this kind of errors by coll
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That looks like a Snow Crash reference (Neal Stephenson). Absolutely worth a re-read if you want to explore this scenario. Edit: spelling
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Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes(nbi.ku.dk)
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JetBrains Rider is an amazing cross-platform IDE for .NET, with many more features than VS Code.
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A good way to learn is to learn on the job. If you start looking for mini languages in a normal project (or where they would fit) you will see that there are frequently many opportunities to do something useful with small domain specific la
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Harald Bohr won a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics with the Danish football team. He was also a notable mathematician, an editor for Acta Mathematica and he discovered the fascinating Fastperiodische Funktionen. Sports and academics were n
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You can write your build scripts in F# with the excellent Fake library or Cake for a similar C# DSL. It gives you the same IDE experience for your build scripts and your code including REPL for experiments and a debugger when needed. since
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Oh yes, servlets were such a breath of fresh air. However that was more of an afterthought- I remember that when it came out I initially bought into the write-once-run-anywhere hype and the idea that Java was for writing applets. The UIs we
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#2 - remember the hype around VRML and how we would have virtual words in the browser? I remember working with Silicon Graphics gear back then and the 3D guys were quite enthusiastic about it. Of course, we had all devoured William Gibson’s
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Paper Trails – Cameron Blevins(cameronblevins.org)
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This is straight from the school of Peter Naur. He called it datalogy, the science of the nature and the use of data. See Peter Naur: “The Science of Datalogy”, Communications of the ACM, July 1966. https://dl.acm.org/doi&#x
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For more information in English, see their public transport website: https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/living/mobility/public-trans...
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Even sports could kill you: US President Coolidge’s son died of an infection from a blister after playing tennis in the White House garden in 1924. Medical info, including infection deaths for former presidents and their families: https:&#
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I think it was Kent Beck that proposed the tongue-in-cheek Galactic Markup Language, GML as his preferred alternative. It has very clear semantics: a box is a box and an arrow is an arrow. Personally I always found that the less formalistic
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“In Search of Stupidity” has a chapter on Borland if I remember correctly. Basically they decided that they did not want to serve millions of developers that loved their product but to instead focus on fewer, bigger enterprise accounts. Thi
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The fascinating description of how they used satellite imagery and topography to find the location from the videos really stands out in an age of fast shallow journalism.
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Evidence suggests Ethiopian military carried out massacre in Tigray(bbc.com)
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Another important aspect was the social networks of the time. We had computer clubs in many cities. Clubs had their zines. These were focal points for meeting other would-be sceners. The demo scene was organised in groups with members spre
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The Amiga was definitely a big factor. For one it was a “cathedral”, not a “bazaar” in the sense that it had more or less the same hardware on all models. The hardware was nicely balanced: small enough that you could learn it all, yet compl
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Alistair Cockburn used to talk a lot about the contextual aspects of agile and how you need different levels of process rigour and ceremony at different levels of scale (number of project members) and different levels of criticality (e.g. a
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I think it is useful to rephrase your questions to make the intent of sprints and standups more explicit: Sprints: What are the pros and cons of delivering working software incrementally at regular intervals? Standups: What are the pros and
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Xero expands small business offering with Planday acquisition(zdnet.com)
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One of the most important skills is learning to communicate clearly. You need to give up details and be able to express the key concepts clearly on different levels of detail and business/technical understanding. Explaining this is som
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In EU there are strict financial regulations about custody. Brokers are not allowed to do anything to your shares without your instruction. So, for example, if the broker goes bankrupt, the custody account with your shares is still there fo
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Cassette.jl: Overdub Your Julia Code(github.com)
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They do: in my neighbourhood the two leading providers are E.on (German, EU wide) and Clever (Danish, focusing on the Nordics). They are both expanding rapidly - for example Clever alone is planning to provide fast charging stations for 70%

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