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StandardML is a rather nice modular high level functional programming language with algebraic datatypes, pattern matching, compile-time type checking and type inference etc. Poly/M…

Not eries (obviously) but if you switch out shareholder for stakeholder i.e. maximise stakeholder value, you gain a wider set of responsibilities more aligned with Eric's comment. …

@atomicnature - thank you for posting this. I saw the title and wondered if it was books on lean startups or lean manufacturing, very happy to find a collection of links to books o…

Valid concern which should not be downvoted. For some this will be too early to garner interest or confidence. For others, especially those interested in the Pascal language family…

You can use Lazarus from a C interface - via liblcl. There are bindings for Go and Nim that use this method. Given the QBE backend, this may be one possible route for Blaise but ne…

Historic crane populations crashed due to hunting and then loss of habitat as wetlands were drained and agriculture and housing expanded etc. Today you can find cranes in the wild …

and if you want some additional explanation: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

Factor provides support for both file and image based workflows. Factor is image-based and uses files when sharing, loading or refreshing vocabularies. however, just like lisp and …

Not the OP but suspect the source is this: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censu...

For those outside US where content is currently not available at your location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451xJqNGFqU

22+ odd years ago I emailed Ross out of the blue. At the time I was working at a small startup attempting to build mobile banking infrastructure for rural poor in South Africa and …

Blender Apps are on the medium to long term plans for the Blender foundation (i.e. planned on roadmap but not currently under active development). The Blender team currently have a…

This is very cool - recommend checking out the demo and examples: https://glisp.app/commit:e7fbaae/ - its a very nice UI experience - try hello world then move the circle and see t…

I found the docs a better starting point: https://docs.lucidarch.dev/ https://docs.lucidarch.dev/concept/ https://docs.lucidarch.dev/principles/ https://docs.lucidarch.dev/micro-vs…

Super excited to see this and thanks Mikhaed for posting! Intel's Loihi and Manchester's APT SpiNNaker ( http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/hardware/ ) are two extre…

Anton Commissaris was one of the founding team at Mint - now part of Intuit. His recent book: Mint - The Arc of the valley ( https://www.amazon.com/ARC-VALLEY-Silicon-Soaring-Succe…

Great to see this - Barrelfish is a very interesting OS and its really good to see ETH Zurich continue its history of creating original intriguing hardware for research and teachin…

As it says on the website: Oberon+ is fast statically typed, compiled, general-purpose, procedural, object-oriented, garbage collected programming language in the Pascal tradition,…

Leonid Zamdborg et al published a good paper on this a few years ago and it has a very good overview of related previous work. All the referenced papers in the background and relat…

the online simulator is worth playing with to get an idea of the functionality and code on github makes for an interesting read. fantastic project.

Commercial per node. There are also maintenance licenses etc as per most other commercial renderers You can also rent 10 nodes per week fot $50 (for example rendering on multiple n…

Renderman 24 which is currently in beta and planned for release in 2021 will support Blender as a full authoring 'bridge' tool (same as Maya, Houdini and Katana).

It does and with acknowledgement that Conway's life was then the best known example of 2D cellular automata. However, Conway's life CA was not the focus of the article hence limite…

Nope not a tutorial - but the code is nice and clear making it easy to work through and make changes/ add features in as a good learning exercise. The Lite editor plugins also give…