"Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark's syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently."
Modern Information Retrieval is also a classic reference. Not openly available but some contents are (were?) available online. Their site seems to be down but the Internet Archive has a copy.
"When iPhone users with iOS 14, the latest iPhone software, type a query into the search window, Apple now shows its own search results instead of Google’s. It also displays auto-complete style suggestions, highlighting how it is learning from users most common search queries. However, few are likely to have noticed the change."
I don't understand Hacker News. Tim Bray's post on Break Up Google was buried and not visible on HN's front page. The next day this on Visa-MasterCard post shows up on the top with a "forget Google" comment. Why?
Is this a result from the community or the algorithm?
HN seems to have changed a lot in the last few years.
"[Tokyo Shimbun, a metropolitan daily,] also said people shouldn't make the V-sign with their hand, which Japanese often do in photos, because fingerprints could be stolen."
Contributing to open source software has never been about money. I would be very interested in reading the economical analysis of the impact of this move by GitHub.
How will the money incentive align with the existing incentives.
Prices are marketed at <<$10 prices for first year registration. Renewals are then much expensive. The price that I am going to pay each year is really unpredictable and subject to business / commercial interests.
Anybody has a good reference on this? Including managing teams from different backgrounds and details on documentation and artifacts that support web projects?