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Yeah basically true; it's described as "neutral" but it absolutely is not. I have to admit, though, the New Haas revival is so amazingly good that it makes me want to like Helvetic…

1) Overexposure. Same problem that Georgia has: Otherwise a very serviceable Matthew Carter design. 2) It's a screen font. In print and display applications, it really does look gr…

I'd upvote this twice if I could. It is a great strength of the popular subset of SQL that it is _not_ Turing complete.

It's not just you: Its typography and design is quite unsuitable to reading. The lines are too long, there is not enough leading, the typeface is badly chosen, and the black blocks…

It uses a SAT solver, not Prolog. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686801

"since the result will be not as performant as what they can do with C" -- This isn't the main reason, but it's also not really true. Paradigm changes don't imply "less performance…

I assume you're already au fait with Inform* family of languages...

It may "sound terrifying" but it's likely to be much more pleasant than you think: https://github.com/Anniepoo/swiplwebtut/blob/master/web.adoc

Speaking of Fortran: please paste the equivalent JavaScript

The Power of Prolog series is great and what Markus is doing is vital: We must teach that Computer Science is not an exotic, marginal way of approaching software development, but t…

Not forgetting Picat! https://www.hakank.org/picat/

This is something like what Oxide Computer is trying to do, but of course you have to use their hardware to benefit. https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer

The even more immediate objection is that a binary blob is the opposite of portable?!

don't confuse "module system" with "package manager"

And yet, deadly disasters do happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayano-Shushenskaya_power_stat... Key: "It seems they were used to the high levels of vibration" - Diane Vaughan …

Every large DC will have hit it (Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc). But it's a shame that all their operational knowledge is kept secret.

Nobody works entirely by themselves. They always rely on a village, family, spouse, etc.

> you could possibly make a city where driving is king and there is effectively no congestion. It would just be absurdly expensive and hostile to everyone who doesn't have access t…

They sure do at Amazon. Frugality is one of the explicit leadership principles and initiatives often have cost saving as a primary goal and always as a secondary goal.

Jobs was notoriously a capricious micromanager at NeXT; see e.g. "The NeXT Big Thing", Randall Stross. Thanks to the secrecy that shrouds everything Apple, it's hard to get a handl…

In particular, paper tape.

What are you using it for?

And read the bash manual at least ONCE. (It's not the man page.)

Wow, what an extraordinarily ignorant and obtuse remark. Way to go HN!

"The core problem seems to be that we just don't (yet) have good words for this particular space of abstractions" How about "functor," "monad," "applicative" etc.?