SNACKeR99

>He hasn't said anything remarkable here.

To each his own. Comparing his ideas to software development would not be my first instinct, but I don't think level of abstraction is what he was going for. A closer analogy would be where there are many different implementations of an interface that run concurrently and then have their many outputs fused back into one single output. But that reads more awkwardly than the way Lem said it :)

>the example you selected (git) is rarely the right thing to choose

It's clearly just an example, but whether it's a bad one or not is debatable. Git is used by most shops, and most people have challenges with it at one time or another. Further, it is IMO an excellent example of how choosing the right data structure for a problem can have a profound impact on the resulting application. You could do worse for broadening your knowledge of ComSci than by a deep study of Git.

It's not clear to me what you are asking. How can you derive a FROM clause from SELECT * ?

Perhaps you could provide an example?

Yes, I coded in JScript happily for about 3 years. Even better, using Windows Scriptlets let me write dynamically-compiled COM components in JavaScript that I would call from the web pages. As a result, I could launch updates independently in a microservice-like fashion, share the same libraries (like validation) on client and server, and use the same COM components in crons. Not bad at all! Also, because we had COM components, we could now use Window's built-in message queue MSMQ for async processes like payment transactions. I started doing this in 2003 - looking back, that was a pretty good developer experience.

Before we shuffle off this mortal stack.

Really enjoyed this, thanks!

What are you using as your search engine?

Possibly the first+N complete skeleton ever found. The first was over 160 years ago.

I think it is! There is an incredible amount of restraint and tension in that movie. It's in my top 2.

Similar experience here: I started early and played the game for a while, and years later with very little activity I'm still top 0.08%. My technique was to focus on speed. I wrote a tool to alert me to new questions and would often answer within one to two minutes. This wasn't as disruptive as it may sound to my real work, as I knew my domain well enough, so it was the mental equivalent of getting up for a quick walk.

On satellite right now. I'm getting ~600ms latency :(

I loved del.icio.us back in the day. So much, that when it went down for a few days in 2003, I wrote a clone of it that I still use to this day, self-hosted. I also archive the text content of the page, which has saved me a few times. At this point I have about 11,000 bookmarked URLs, and if nothing else, it's a fun way to find out what I was doing on a given day.