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Should we come up with a language that's easy to teach for both computers and humans? A sort of generic human/machine DSL?

Would spacemacs work on Android?

> companies with 'absolutely no AGPL' policy cannot try the open source version of these DBs which puts these products behind others. Many companies have dumb policies. They are th…

>Flatly, re-writing a several decade's old, matured codebase in today's flavor-of-the-week language is not a good idea. It's a waste of time and effort. That's the sort of thinking…

49% of US billion-dollar startups were founded by native americans?

So python will be better in version 3 and people will move to better languages? Sounds like a win-win to me.

No, it's not nonsense. The things you listed in there are incremental fixes, not fundamental. http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php How would you fix this witho…

You don't understand. To fix problems like python3 did, you have to break older code. Php7 did nothing like that, that's why the "porting" process was so light. But it also means i…

The reason for that is that python2=>3 fixed several fundamental problems. 5.6 => 7 is just a incremental upgrade, whatever the version numbering tells you. Most of the PHP problem…

> It's far more than web-based IRC How exactly?

Perhaps it's slightly subjective, since I would place FreeBSD ports in between rpm and deb in terms of difficulty.

> But why improve performance by switching to a language that's well suited to the task at hand when you can do it by switching to a language that's hip? Because your question is l…

php 7 is just as fast, or a teeny bit slower, than 5. Isn't that a rather interesting result, given how the php community has claimed huge performance increases in 7?

What's a monthly cap?

Does Scala fix the null problem?

If we could reliably track politicians' money flows, their opinions, their comments and their actual actions in a system that's easily queriable, it might just be easy enough for t…

Perhaps the question should be rather: Why is Post::belonging_to(usre).load(&connection) an improvement over SELECT * FROM posts WHERE usre_id = 1; ? ... to which the answer is pro…

How they got Varnish to run so slowly is indeed an interesting result :P

The sad Jolla tale made me seriously ponder about making a full change to Apple. I'm currently testing how an iPad Pro might work for a 95% laptop replacement.

In what, a decade? Seriously though, this is "Handling 1B connections in a week with Varnish".

- In the modern world, people are afraid of XML - 95% of people still don't understand XML namespaces I guess that's one way of saying that something is too complicated :)

Like all things in life, higher abstraction level of Haskell is not free. The price is more complex language (which many people don't have the capacity to properly learn) and less …