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Thing seems to be built on top of Stack. Nice to see the Haskell community aligning itself so fast around a package manager/build tool created first and foremost for ease of use an…

Why don't we have affordable symmetric internet connections yet?

Noooo! All that wasted helium!

But it is Postgres - QL, because you have Postgres, the server, and its Query Language. Straightforward. ... okay no I was trolling

Is there a product called, or commonly referred to as "PSQL" that could be confused for PostgresSQL? Because I think the project should start advocating "PSQL". See, The competitio…

I thought it was meant to be "Postgres-Q-L" Edit: wow, the naming page says that Postgres-QL is a "weird derivation".

> Traditionally, most journals were published by non-profit scientific societies. But when journals shifted from print to online digital formats, those societies couldn't afford th…

Ha! Cunningham's law. I see that many OOP languages (of various purity) have interfaces that may be extended by other interfaces. Is that what you're talking about? I also found th…

Ahhhh, *variance. The definitive explanation of why inheritance should always be avoided in favour of implementation of abstract interfaces.

Oh my god it's written by David Foster Wallace, there is a javascript widget to display the footnotes, and some footnotes have footnotes. Perfect. Thank you so much.

If it starts to suck like MySQL, will it become popular like MySQL? I think that'd be a fair tradeoff.

There's that bit which made me chuckle at first, then think. A lot. When he shows an algorithm written in prose, then in modern mathematical notation. The real leap forward here? U…

I suppose that hackers having a social (sexual?) life outside of work is a huge time management issue at Alibaba. It's pretty fascinating that they are willing to solve that proble…

I was under the impression that GUTs were _always_ gory messes.

Actually it's probably Fraa Jad or some other Millenarian signing.

It's no fair, I have none of "the hum" here so I have to play my own drone on my speakers and I'm running out of bands. Either way I'm pretty sure the entire phenomenon is just Sun…

Punk is a suffix usually employed to evoke one part of another of the punk ethos of independence, DIY, peaceful anarchist self-governance, respectfulness, abstention from consumeri…

We're solving problems all the time Energy storage efficiency is growing Homeowners are selling power to their utility during the day and buying it back during the night People are…

I initially thought the "infinite" in the title referred to Infinite Jest. That would have been really wild...

“Not now, Pa, I know the moon’s pretty, I’m right in the middle of debugging this method . . .”

In the same sense that there's no sound on the Internet.

cracks knuckles aight time to make some Illbient

Isn't that like HDevTools for C++? Neat.

If you read the fine print and use Pathogen, you can just clone and make in .vim/bundle/color_coded and it will work.