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Another possible output for this type of task is an opinion or interpretation and a justification of it. A machine might feasibly be considered "good" if it output an unpopular int…

But how many companies will want a migration path from XP? More than you may think.

Writing and using a program not "using a script".

Yeah, or another way of splitting up huge models files is to convert models from a module to a package by making a directory models and adding models/__init__.py, models/foo_models…

I agree that being under the GNU isn't necessarily good for projects. Look at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave for example. Many of these patches have in fact been merge…

I guess at least some of these types of companies are consultancy companies disguised as product companies? If that's the case they might not be affected too badly.

All numbers in Javascript are IEEE 754 64-bit double precision floating point numbers. The significand precision is 53 bits (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision…

https://shaneenishry.com/blog/2014/12/27/misconceptions-of-c... is from 2014. I tend to think it might actually make a difference in this case given it's a vtable indirection for e…

Speaking of Gopher, from http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/RelevantProtocol... : "Chances are that future versions of the Gopher and HTTP protocols will converge."

Looks like this might be a good entry point: https://github.com/IteratorAdvance/taichi/tree/master/python...

My understanding is historically simplified writing systems are met with a lot of resistance when there is a small educated class interested in holding on to their status since the…

How about Reddit? That's a site that's undergone a number of UI changes and I'm pretty sure even now still has <30 engineers. It had around 6 in 2012 I believe.

Like this? http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/datalog2011-dedalus.pdf

Honestly I've always just thought of Monads as-in Haskell as a tricky way of sequencing in the presence of lazy evaluation. Looked at this way, the "trick" is to make a data depend…

My guess is people are afraid they're going to end up with difficult to debug edge case type bugs and have to sink loads of time into it beyond the standard porting steps.

If you're doing reports you could run them against a read-only slave.

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Black money is money that has been obtained illegally but not yet laundered. If you're caught with a lot of money and don't have a good reason why you have it, well the authorities…

Same thing: * https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kypsis-language-im... * https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindtheword/fabjla... * http://lifehacker.com/5907432/lang…

The semantics are similar to Dedalus, which is compared to Datalog here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g

Well the linked page and videos explain the benefits of the current release pretty well. They should take less than 30 minutes to view. I think part of the reason they use ambiguou…

Last time I tried I found the fact I was able to select multiple departure airports and multiple destinations and see a calendar of fares a great way to find the cheapest fares.

Didn't Facebook used to ask to log in to your email to import your contacts to look for friends? Sure, unlike LinkedIn they at least actually asked first, but I think it shows how …

And yet in many cases they're prescribed without even trying therapy because they're cheaper.