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Why do people need to know about this magical thing? Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add …

It's addressed in the article. Basically, you can mimick that with a generational GC as long as the youg generation space is large enough to hold all objects from a request.

String: Linked list of Char. Nice for teaching, horrible in every other aspects. Text and lazy Text: modern strings, with unicode handling and so on. ByteString and lazy ByteString…

Great post. How much knowledge and experience of haskell did you have before starting this project?

Except that the wealthy don't pay that much taxes in the first place.

Does readable MUMPS even exist?

xpinstall.signatures.required should be the setting you're looking for.

There are plenty of alternatives in the EU: https://queal.eu/ http://mymana.eu/ https://www.joylent.eu/ https://jakeshake.eu/ and many more I'm sure

what? off topic

After living in China for a few years, I understood something: the only thing chinese government cares about is its longevity. The whole system is designed to keep the party in the…

Looks nice, but the pie chart is really not a good choice. It's not clear at all which choice is the winner when some are close (among other things). Add an option to change to a b…

Be careful about spending resources on collecting useless data though.

This effect comes from the effect of regression to the mean. Some people will vastly overestimate, while some people will vatsly underestimate, thus cancelling out. It holds as lon…

One very useful advice when it comes to 'what to memorize' is trying to always watch yourself using vim. If you happen to do something repetitive, ask yourself: is there a better w…

It's a very good book. It explains a lot of 'why' and inner working of good practices. It's also fairly comprehensive, ranging from - some evilness (type inference with ==, eval an…

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