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I'd add Let over Lambda (LOL) to that list.

If you belive Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius then the atomic radius of Helium has never been measured, but it is predicted to be smaller than Hydrogen.

I think you'd enjoy the book "The Newtonian Casino".

Metadata operations on partitions can be very fast. One simple example is date based housekeeping. Deleting a month of data will be quite intensive on most databases, whereby dropp…

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

Firstly there are vastly more positions in Go. Secondly, it's very hard to evaluate a Go position, especially at the start of the game when there are few stones on the board. In ch…

The last one might be heped by trace flag 4199. You can apply it to individual queries with option (querytraceon 4199): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/psssql/2010/09/01/slow-quer…

I expect you have enough hardware to factor widely deployed primes. Compound numbers might be a different story.

Didn't wear a seatbelt and headbutted the person in front, snapping their neck. Sucks to be them, I guess. But at least you stuck it to the man.

design

I thought https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cfe03f2ddb0052b38081 was kind of neat, as you still have to solve the puzzle a bit after using it.

Admittedly in the UK, but the ISP I use don't have a problem with people running servers: http://www.aa.net.uk/

For a lot of RDBMS, transaction semantics can be later with different transaction isolation levels. There levels like repeatable read which work in this way, but the default level …

If you're watching live (or nearly live) broadcast on iPlayer, you still legally require a license: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...

CTRL + V CTRL T

If you're parsing from a real time feed, then that's fair enough. But if not $now isn't appropriate.

Funnily enough if you buy Tesco's electrical goods online and pick up at store you don't get a paper receipt. The security guard (through lack of training) wasn't keen on letting m…

I had a go at something similar for the Facebook version a couple of years ago. My main goal was to stop playing the game, but it was also an excuse to try Clojure. At the time it …