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List of companies that are not moving outside of UK after Brexit? Sounds pretty useful. Go for it, compile it. The author was apparently interested in those that are moving out, th…

It's just a bunch of facts on a specific subject: "companies leaving UK because of Brexit". How would you "balance" a list of facts to make you happier and avoid what you call "pro…

And let the other people spend their time in fruitless search forever? Not very nice.

Already in 1974 the great Philip K. Dick thought Stanislaw Lem "deserved attention", and sent a letter to FBI denouncing him as "a communist committee" rather than an individual wr…

I don't normally listen to Lana but I clicked on the YouTube link and saw the title of the album is Lust for Life - is Iggy Pop planning to sue her too, lol.

Transportation is a big and growing problem and this exceptionally interesting HN discussion is a testimony to that. But, no mention of a potential to reduce the problem by increas…

I removed capslock from my keyboard whilst in a previous job cause I never needed it and, worse, kept hitting it instead of tab accidentally. Not using Excell, just coding on a Lin…

What's also important is to have a simple, neat API, ideally C API. If you do have it, then writing wrappers for any language, even manually, without SWIG (which is great, but does…

Does it mean anything "written natively"?

That's a very good question. I asked this question at a dinner after European Common Lisp Meeting in Madrid in 2013, a wonderful, memorable gig, BTW. I was surprised how unanimous …

This looks really nice. A low level Lisp as a system programming language - a C replacement - is an interesting idea. First thought after going through the readme: does it try to p…

What's the software/service that you were using?

Majority of weather observations come from satellites these days.

ECMWF has been producing the best global forecasts in the world for many years. This will end in few years, but at the moment IFS, the model used at ECMWF, is the best in the world…

They are both very similar to https://earth.nullschool.net/ which is open source: https://github.com/cambecc/earth