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List of companies that are not moving outside of UK after Brexit? Sounds pretty useful. Go for it, compile it. The author was apparently interested in those that are moving out, though, but you are free to create a "list of opposite" if you think this is more interesting. Or, even better, perhaps you want to create a list of companies that are moving to UK because of Brexit? I would really like to see it.

It's just a bunch of facts on a specific subject: "companies leaving UK because of Brexit". How would you "balance" a list of facts to make you happier and avoid what you call "project fear"?

And let the other people spend their time in fruitless search forever? Not very nice.

Already in 1974 the great Philip K. Dick thought Stanislaw Lem "deserved attention", and sent a letter to FBI denouncing him as "a communist committee" rather than an individual writer: http://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-...

I don't normally listen to Lana but I clicked on the YouTube link and saw the title of the album is Lust for Life - is Iggy Pop planning to sue her too, lol.

Transportation is a big and growing problem and this exceptionally interesting HN discussion is a testimony to that. But, no mention of a potential to reduce the problem by increasing the number of people working remotely from home and eliminating part of the transportation demand. Any thoughts on this?

I removed capslock from my keyboard whilst in a previous job cause I never needed it and, worse, kept hitting it instead of tab accidentally. Not using Excell, just coding on a Linux workstation.

What's also important is to have a simple, neat API, ideally C API. If you do have it, then writing wrappers for any language, even manually, without SWIG (which is great, but does add complexity to your project's build process), is simple.

Does it mean anything "written natively"?

That's a very good question. I asked this question at a dinner after European Common Lisp Meeting in Madrid in 2013, a wonderful, memorable gig, BTW. I was surprised how unanimous CL elites were on this subject. They were strongly against even small, incremental improvements or additions. IMHO, it would be nice to have a standard socket library, for example. One of the reasons mentioned was cost of the standardization, including updates of all the implementations. I kind of understand it, but, on the other hand, it makes me a bit sad. Things either grow, even very slowly, or become fossil.

This looks really nice. A low level Lisp as a system programming language - a C replacement - is an interesting idea. First thought after going through the readme: does it try to provide stable ABI? This is an important feature for a C replacement; for example, C++ has not managed to get it right, although the idea was to provide a better, object oriented C... What worries me in particular is that Dale has overloaded functions, that makes things harder as far as stable API is concerned, but maybe I'm wrong. Nice stuff, anyway. I can see a little PLT trend of new high level languages that want to be good in doing low level stuff and don't use GC. I like that!

What's the software/service that you were using?

Majority of weather observations come from satellites these days.

ECMWF has been producing the best global forecasts in the world for many years. This will end in few years, but at the moment IFS, the model used at ECMWF, is the best in the world.

They are both very similar to https://earth.nullschool.net/ which is open source: https://github.com/cambecc/earth

"Now the people I find it hardest to be creative with are people who need all the time to project an image of themselves as decisive." This reasonated with me strongly. I know people like that, I don't like them, I avoid them, they are the reason I am looking for a new job at the moment, lol.

Sounds like you have some practical experience with that. What frontend was it? Are these problems frontend/language independent?

The beauty of LLVM is that developers of compilers based on LLVM like Pony or Julia don't have to even think about the backends.

No Motörhead?..

I have. He's a good programmer and a nice chap.

Chomsky's political writing is actually backed by tons of data (facts). He is clear about his ideology and does not try to hide it,but facts his quoting are facts.

UK is not 5th largest economy in the world anymore: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/france-britai...

Yes, asciinema is a wonderful thing I learned about from this blogpost too. And another one from the asciinema.org: lolcat! Command line forever!

The idea of getting rid of GC is very exciting, as GC has a lot of drawbacks. I want to study Carp to see how this was achieved. Incidentally, today I also found Bone Lisp https://github.com/wolfgangj/bone-lisp/blob/master/README.md which has the same goal.

Me too. I know peeps who are developing an assimilation system in C++, but that's in development...

Another major advantage over C and C++ is a language level support for multidimensional arrays, i.e. you don't have to reasearch available libs, depend on them, convert between them, etc. I fully understand resistance of scientific community to trying alternatives like C++.

That's a very nice proverb, love it.

Lots of good advise here. A job applying bot is a cool idea, though, with NLP and ML stuff I'm sure it can go way beyond simple spamming.

There is plenty of things like that, but it's really off topic.

Yes, I can think of programs that can only be designed and implemented by top 1% of programmers.

Regarding "programming is not a [...] thing to waste those precious early years on.", well, this is not something I'd like to argue about, just want to say that learning programming by a kid doesn't have to be (and, of course, shouldn't be) a 8h or more daily activity, like for a professional adult programmer. I think an hour per week of learning programming can be a valuable exercise in logical thinking, creativity and problem solving. It can easily be a lot of fun, too.