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From a map I found[0], it looks like Sweden has an average annual temperature of around +5⁰C, and northern Ontario and Quebec are closer to -5⁰C? [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/w…

Do you consider implementing an interface to be subclassing? And if so, what's the OO alternative? Prototypes?

It's rugged! 6-8 days is typical, according to Parks Canada: https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/pacificrim/activ/SCO-WCT

At least according to Amazon, "Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. The short answer is that not all of the tea…

It's not necessarily unrealistic. It only takes one terrible driver to drag down the mean and make everyone else better than average!

"This website" referred to Hacker News itself, which is written in a Lisp (Arc).

> But they don't mutate data and hence every function call creates a new data in memory taking up space. Well, only if you mutate the data. And even then, most functional languages…

For some reason I'm kind of sad seeing Twitter's (very cool) homegrown technologies in the "Old" diagram with the "New" architecture basically Google Cloud. I'm sure it makes sense…

From the article, > [Lisp macros] by their nature would be hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp Other candidates that come to mind (be…

To clear up a possible misunderstanding, CPython != Cython.

What benefits does loom provide vs using something like cats-effect fibres?

Do you think IDEs would have grown support for them before they were a language feature?

One advantage of Kafka is the ecosystem effect. There are many systems (Flink, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Druid, Presto, etc) that connect to Kafka. I'm not sure about the extent of Pul…

1. That's untrue. Partitions are limited to what a machine may handle, but topics may be scaled across many ordered partitions. 2. This is generally handled by the client library t…

How would you structure it (in broad strokes)?

They may be using the term "dog" to refer to Caninae (or Canidae?) rather than wolf-derived pets, judging by the description of the phylogeny.

It's interesting that I could write your last sentence, but replacing "exceptions" with "monadic error handling." Ultimately, both are equally expressive and it's reasonable to per…

> In the functional example, where does Person store the fName and lName variables? With a closure? And you get state hiding too. > If functions persist data, are they really class…

Perhaps they know the stratigraphic relationship between the sites and can estimate that way? (If one fossil is above another and you can rule out faulting or overturning, then you…