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OP here. Sorry if I misunderstood the guidelines, but these are not the same stories. The proposal to scrap the term limits was announced two weeks ago, which is what those stories…

It's only my impression, really. But I have seen a slew of articles about how jQuery is dead, and very few people still writing articles about it's benefits. Many libraries that us…

I know that frameworks such as React and Vue have taken over most of the mindshare, but I still find jQuery easier to use and often more productive, especially for smaller websites…

If you simply want the latest stable docker version, try: curl -o /tmp/get-docker.sh https://get.docker.com && bash /tmp/get-docker.sh or even just curl https://get.docker.com | ba…

This article alleges that there may be a hidden bias against female scientists receiving Nobel prices. If the author had included a long list of female scientists that deserved a N…

I feel like the core value proposition is something like "public expressions that can be consumed quickly and produced with little forethought". I think it's important that Twitter…

I'm not sure what to make of this. I suppose there is nothing inherently ideal about the (arbitrary) 140 character limit on tweets. Why not 180, or 280, etc? Still, my first reacti…

Two other nice apps in this space are Workflowy[1] and Dynalist[2]. [1]: https://workflowy.com [2]: https://dynalist.io

Specifically, he compares compares blockchains to the Internet and railroads: "It is a bubble. This is going to be the largest bubble of our lifetimes, and so .. remember, bubbles …

The term 'usage rights' is a bit confusing here. I think it may be intended to refer to 'use' as defined in the previous half of the sentence, i.e. 'including the rights to run, re…

The 'software' is what is provided by the original author(s), and the rest refers to the patents held on 'it'. What you describe would be a 'derivative work', as mentioned in the s…

> Using the 6.3 Richter scale, the energy released would be ~43 kilotons of TNT. That's curious. Every yield estimate I've seen so far was substantially higher than this. Could you…

Hi, thanks for the link. I've seen this paper, but it has nothing to do with strongly typed languages, as far as I can tell. In fact, there is no mention of types in the paper at a…

> When a test suite finds a bug, that proves that the program is incorrect for some inputs. When a type system doesn't reject a program, that proves that the program is correct for…

Property testing [1] is about semantics, the same as regular testing, and it does not require code annotations. [Edit: It's more like "fuzzing" than "model checking".] Type systems…

Are we talking about automatic type inference then? Otherwise you'll still have to work out each type before it becomes "automatic". Which is not entirely dissimilar from working o…