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That is really interesting! I never had an ant farm, and I'm glad I didn't given what you've said. Are ants similar to bees in that there's one egg-laying "queen" that you have to …

Is there not an autoformatter available? We use linting as part of our Python workflow and it works pretty well along with black. There's really not much linting work: just write y…

Leaving aside commercial methods or more...shall we say, exotic methods like explosives or elecroshock, bait fishing is generally more effective. I do both: I trot bait when the ri…

Due to the physical architecture of CPUs/etc., data structures that have "worse" asymptotic performance are often quite a bit faster than those with "better" performance. For examp…

Sure, so now instead of just having a source control remote, you’re now looking after a publicly accessible box in the cloud with all the security headaches that brings. Plus you’v…

I've studied there for an MSc in Computing. It was good. The classes are a bit business-schooly but I got some good support from tutors. Obviously it depends on the individual tuto…

Realistically, how well will someone with a nonspecialist knowledge of biology be able to contribute to these projects? That statement's not intended to pass judgement; I'd really …

Hey, are you OK with UK passport holders?

Scala's for-comprehensions (and Haskell's do-notation) help quite a lot as well.

I'm doing a masters in Computing with them now. I'm enjoying it quite a lot, and it is definitely rigorous (though more on the management side rather than the technical side).

There's definitely a different style of development, in my experience. After a few beers or when very sleep-deprived, I find myself avoiding "analysis paralysis" and just getting s…

Astrology and machine learning just seem so different. One is a poor attempt at prediction using dubious, shoddy, poorly understood methods that generally amount either to general …

How does machine learning apply to something like astrology?

I almost always skip the intro of books like this. I didn't skip this one. The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are two of my favorite books of all time.

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We use it in production for a Storm-based ETL pipeline. We've not had any problems that have been related to our use of Kotlin.

How is the tooling these days? I played with .NET Core a while ago (before the move away from project.json and just after the move to the dotnet command line tool rather than dnx/d…

.NET has both nonblocking evented IO and standard blocking IO in the stdlib. Most modern libraries use asynchronous IO, however lots of legacy applications still use blocking calls…

There's a much more immediately practical reason to keep it in-firewall as well: if the utility company accidentally cuts a fiber line outside my house, I don't want to be suddenly…

We used it a lot for full automation tests for the UI. It's nice being able to interface with a full-featured browser that can run javascript, etc. And take screenshots when things…

If Tradfri bulbs use ZLL, is it theoretically possible to connect Tradfri bulbs to an existing Hue network?

I've recently started working in the big data space and it definitely seems like the primary use case for Hadoop these days is HDFS. Spark seems to have entirely subsumed Hadoop Ma…

I thought the AGPL only applied to modifications of the AGPL'd software? E.g. you'd have to open source any modifications of the AGPL service you make.