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1) актуалли портабле екзекутабле 2) αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε What is easier to comprehend?

I doubt that it is like an object store. I think that it is built around the notion of multidimensional array (matrix) by focusing on data science tools. Yet, they use the term "ta…

Probably this introduction is good for some purposes but for me it is too informal and too far from (my) reality. I would say it is 90% identical to many other introductions to OAu…

What is the closest (conceptual) analogue for this model: - https://github.com/jodal/pykka (Python) - https://github.com/quantmind/pulsar (Python) - https://github.com/akka/akka (J…

It was a separate data processing engine within Excel developed by another team (SQL server) for the purposes of self service BI (Power Pivot/Query). Most probably, this engine is …

> A time-varying relation is just what it says: a relation that changes over time ... Critically, the full suite of existing SQL operators remain valid on time-varying relations An…

> The heavier the ball, the quicker it falls. But if it’s too heavy, it can get stuck or overshoot the target. This explanation of momentum is somewhere between misleading and wron…

> Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test This is precisely what I would do as an engineer if I was responsible for operating such kind of network infrastr…

A guide to migrating to Python 3 (with pleasure :) https://github.com/arogozhnikov/python3_with_pleasure

So what these countries are currently doing is replacing the "Russian Empire" by the "NATO Empire" (NATO/US invasion) instead of simply turning into a democracy and asking people h…

Purely statistically you cannot even compare them: |US invasions| >> |Russia invasions| But maybe it is because of the difference in GDP: |US invasions| / GDP ~= |Russia invasions|…

In 1)-3) you assume that US is the world's global policeman who is always right because it is right. 4) The democratic way: ask people in this "another" country and if the opinions…

In ancient Greece, a great deal (or even most) of the population were slaves. Yet, it does not prevent us from treating their system as democracy and compare it with the modern dem…

> Poland was liberal for it's time It depends on how you define liberal. For example, Afganistan, Somalia, the Ukraine are very liberal nowadays: weak central government, weak cent…

This list has numerous pointers to resources related to data engineering: https://github.com/igorbarinov/awesome-data-engineering

> Correctness comes first. Simplicity is highly desirable, adds additional cost, but always comes after correctness. It is true mainly for one-time contracts where you actually mig…

The author assumes that simplicity is a prerequisite for correctness which is in general true but it does not say when exactly a simple system is turned into a complex system. I wo…

Some other formulations: - Occam's razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor - "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" (Leonardo da Vinci) - "Less is more" (Mies Van …

It is not about the number of candidates and freedom of choice. A true democracy needs its own Guantanamo (US) and citizens of 1st and 2nd classes (Estonia, Latvia). And the most i…

> But the moment your case is perceived by authorities as political or somebody with power finds your business interesting, one gets BIG troubles. It is quite typical for many coun…

It probably depends on the type of equipment they buy, that is, how complex it is and what are the maintenance costs. For example, Turkey recently declared that they will buy some …

Finland is not a member of NATO and it does not have any foreign army on its territory so it can make a decision based on technical characteristics and economical (not political) f…