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I think what you're looking for is called bitemporality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_modeling ). It allows you to query a system (some databases support this) in a te…

> specialisation is for insects And, like, literally everyone since Adam Smith and his pins. Assessing how good people are at skill A by trying to determine how good they are at ev…

> the programmers using it Completely disagree, and I think the people spending the 2010's clearing up screeds of idiomatic perl 5 would side with me :)

Thanks for taking the time, it's interesting to see another perspective.

> I use k3 at work every day. It's perfectly readable to me. Right, but the one follows from the other. I'm passingly familiar with K, Q, and a+. I've worked with Borror and I kind…

> The maximum semantic size of a function that's still easy to read is much larger. This seems like a really weird thing to optimise for - would you mind saying more? I've never fo…

It’s certainly a status game (“of course, I don’t have a Facebook account”...), just a weird one.

At work we once found ourselves in the happy position of having far, far too many applicants for a position. We set a simple test as a high-pass filter. One of the questions was ab…

Having a bad day, mate? Everything alright?

So? The internet isn’t going to work for you any more. Get past it.

> The Chinese government runs protesters over with tanks, imprisons people without cause, attacks their neighbors without cause, etc. Oh come on, you're making it too easy!

http://www.aplusdev.org/ Which includes maybe the (greatest;worst;most horrifying) header file: https://github.com/PlanetAPL/a-plus/blob/master/src/a/arthur...

You see similar cases being made with languages like q, the programming and query language for the kdb database. Arthur Whitney, the q-father, built an apl dialect called a+ at Mor…

What happened? Did you get promoted? Start a family? Lose a bad bet with the mafia?

“Hardly” is a bit strong; other people might have opinions which are different from yours. For example: I’d hate to be stuck in a train carriage for two hours, packed in with peopl…

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel Off you pop!

Are you really telling us, here of all places, that you’re NOT ON FACEBOOK?!

I find that some HN people read articles with the express intention of picking nits. Like the dwarf with learning difficulties, it’s not big and it’s not clever.

Holy mother of god, man. Get a grip.

> she is instructed NOT to [...] Wait, she’s what now?

I’ve made a bunch of assumptions about what you mean; I guess you asked a broad question so you’d get a wide range of answers :) I’m a software engineer by trade but now I teach ot…

> Apple feels like a hot mess right now Because you spilled water on your keyboard?

The “oldest tree ever” is always alive!

> (Not linking directly because I am not sure if that page is legal, Taylor & Francis Online charges for access). Obviously you don’t owe anyone an explanation, but do you mind dis…