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This article doesn’t define onion layering, I am none the wiser from reading it. There are near identical sentences within it, it gave me the sense I was reading AI generated content, or at least heavily AI post-processed content.

I don't know how they know that they'd they'd love a job programming a functional programming language, if they were not passionate enough about Haskell to self-learn (not hard, there are books).

It seems so paradoxical.

It's a bit like someone saying, I'd love to be a hairdresser, do you think it's worth studying to be a hairdresser? There's something which blows up my brain to read that. If you love it, do it.

Nothing makes sense here!

Sounds like a bad fit - find something new. Learn in a new place and experience. If the pattern follows you around, maybe start to look inwardly at whether your bringing the same problems from place to place.

You can’t escape yourself..,

You can’t understand much about statistical inference without calculus.

It’s all integrals over pdf’s. A lot of integration by parts and other things in the core curriculum.

First 60 second impression - this looks like powershell with not-insane syntax. Looks quite revolutionary, it breaks the traditional paradigm for UNIX shells and appears to artfully refine the good concepts in Powershell (which seem to be let down severely - in my opinion - by UX issues.)

Tt was the CIA that infiltrated the communists in Italy for the exact purpose of shaping the politics of the continent to their design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy

See also:

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/13/how-the-cia-created-th...

You may think that this accordance of like-mind was spontaneous, but it has clearly been a half-century long project of the United States.

No wonder their disappointment when their main man inside the bloc, the UK, elected to leave.

I've worked all through many London investment banks, mainly front office tech, I have rarely seen traders working weekends, and I was not compelled to work many hours greatly exceeding 40-ish.

I don't know what these jobs are that they are talking about that are greater than 60 hours. I've seen a little of it maybe in the mergers and acquisitions side of things.

Mongo is obviously not competitive with KDB though, if you are talking of timeseries data as you suggest.

I would think it is in fact very much the wrong tool for the job. Time series data screams structured storage, not unstructured.

If you hire a room full of developers at high salary and nobody is capable of acquiring "the correct understanding/skills" then maybe it's not such a straightforward technology.

It is reasonably straightforward to deal with relational databases in comparison, this is a well-known space.

I mean, don't love the macros - but that still looks like a load of typing to me - and it even reads less well than __LINE__ if you are looking at from a literate programming perspective.

It's tidier for the compiler though, but the change does not seem to make it easier for the reader of the code to comprehend.

PHP 8 6 years ago

It simplifies the expression of if/then/elsif/elsif/else, even if it's not total.

Why not steal it?

The front of any exponential curve will always feel like the time of most significance.

More generally, everything else is grist for the mill - now is all that counts. We are always at the "hinge of history", surely.

They seem to be pushing the barrier on innovation on GPU compute. It seems a little unfair to call that pathetic, whatever strategic reasons they have to find OpenCL unappetising (which simply enables their sole competitor in truth.)

Their decision making seems rational, of course it's not ideal if you're consumer. We would like the ability to bid off NVidia with AMD Radeon.

Convergence to a standard has to be driven by the market, but it's impossible to drive NVidia there because they are the dominant player and it is 100% not in their interests.

It doesn't mean they're a bad company. They are rational actors.