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There's nothing stopping you from using lisp as a transpiler to generate the java, or different interop glue for the lowest common factor code everyone will surely understand. The …

Somewhat related subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec

Why would they fix the problem. Every crash is a redistribution of wealth. When there's a recession, if you're wealthy and have diversified assets you can buy everything at a disco…

Imagine if you invest some money into what becomes a 9 billion dollar valuation company. That valuation is before they've really gone to mass market with their product. If their pr…

I don't see what you can't do with neo4j, neptune, datomic. Neptune offers a sparql interface. You could easily specify an explicit schema. If you wanted to make an ontology that's…

In his book programming erlang Joe Armstrong talks about how erlang is OOP in the original sense. You spawn a bunch of light weight processes, and each process is like a living fun…

Sussman of SICP fame gave a similar analogy. Not really about messaging but about biology in general - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

Things like json-ld, microdata, rdfa https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product Wikidata also has data in rdf https://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download…

Another option is to use a cloudfront hosted pixel, and have a cloudwatch job to schedule processing of that data every X minutes. This gives you ultra fast edge response time on y…

Sorry, Bill tripped on the server cable

Planes don't just fall out of the sky. Having 2 major crashed on the same model could indicate mechanical defects. When microsoft faced an issue with statistically increased failur…

Some statistically significant percentage of xbox 360s are starting to red light for customers running a certain model number. Microsoft assures customers that there's no need to p…

Could be to avoid liability? > Why were you hacked > Weak passwords > What are you going to do about it > We've forced all systems and employees to regenerate passwords and service…

* If it's simple transforms, use cli tools. * If it requires aggregation and it's small, use cli tools. * If this is data you're using over and over again then load it in the datab…

Hetzner lists VMs that are ultra cheap but then has separate listing for more expensive VMs with dedicated cores. Alibaba does the same. With these shared core machines, I wonder w…

Some links worth mentioning https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ https://beautifulracket.com/ https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-buil…

From my understanding this library takes a grammar and generates a run time interpreter for that grammar. Antlr is much more similar as it takes in a grammar, and generates code yo…

When you have an erlang distributed app and need caching without having the overhead of converting erlang terms then ETS is the best solution. That's not to say you would want to u…