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If you mean "free" as in open-source/free, there is J, which has its own builtin database. I'm assuming it's similar to k/kdb, but that's just a guess. Learning an APL variant... n…

The article and linked blog posts fall to explain how this differs, is more powerful than, or solves problems not already solved by actual, functioning, industrial-grade tools, bot…

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Yes, I totally agree it comes down to YMMV. Everyone's learning style is different -- some like dense documentation, some like book-style progressive walkthroughs. I certainly didn…

Please don't what, have an opinion? I read SICP as an experienced programmer and I didn't find it impractical at all; in fact, it kickstarted my interest in other lisps. I read Rea…

Seems like the most common answer to this might be SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- you'll find course videos pretty easily from Google; the ones from the…

My son is learning using Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) and it's pretty well tuned-in to the way he thinks. Haven't put any "code" in front of him yet, but he can make some p…

Probably still relevant given how SBCL's user guide says (in the only section that includes mention of type inferencing): "FIXME: The material in the CMUCL manual about getting goo…

You forgot step zero, which is "find terrible example code on SO and copy it"... then 3 goes back to step 0.

I honestly don't know that there are any posts I get more excited about on HN than Jepsen analyses. The number of landmines distributed systems create and the ability to suss them …

Check out the BPM tools others have mentioned (Activiti, Camunda, etc...)

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Just for context, this is from Harry Browne, who was famously (and perhaps not entirely fairly) labeled as a "gold bug" throughout his career. He was something of a hero figure amo…

I understand the underlying architecture is fundamentally different, but the end result seems kind of akin to some of the "complex event processing" (CEP) tools out there like Espe…

Correct URL: https://www.madetech.com/blog/things-we-learned-building-a-c...

"This is fairly straightforward; professional software developers of all levels usually have some experience building and scaling stateless APIs." I would question this, in fact su…

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This does look cool, and definitely illustrates the awesomeness of using redux / immutable state store. What is the pricing of the service like, though? I'd prefer to see that with…

Except for the landing and reusing part, no? (Yes, they recaptured and reused the Shuttle's SRBs, but it's a different scale and the economics are very different.)

Does this content actually still exist somewhere? There are some references IPs / DNS names that no longer exist.

Made the case for what? In another paper, he wrote: Since J is now free, and uses only ASCII characters, the requirements set forth in my A Personal View of APL have been fully met…

Emacs kill ring? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki... It takes a while to get used to it, but once you understand it / use it in anger, it becomes tough …

I know ocaml has a lot of proponents in industry (jane street probably the most vocal, but I've seen it many other places, as well). Most of the SML/MLTon references I come across …