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by mjul 2y ago
Pavel Hruby’s book, Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006) is to my knowledge the best book on this topic. It’s a pattern book so the format is a bit dry but the contents are great. I keep coming back to
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by mjul 2y ago
Have a look at remacs (an experimental Rust port of emacs, now discontinued) [1] and its successor, emacs-ng (also in Rust) [2] I haven’t followed closely, but I am sure there are som valuable lessons learned there that would answer your qu
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by mjul 2y ago
The original Intentional Programming in the mid-nineties was a much broader vision than Language Workbenches, more like a grand unified theory of software development and related tools such as IDEs, languages, compilers, and a marketplace o
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by mjul 2y ago
Charles Simonyi and his Intentional Software tried to solve this, publishing some interesting articles in the 1990es. However their technology was not broadly used and they were acquired by Microsoft. The key ideas are called Intentional Pr
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Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law(europarl.europa.eu)
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Scottish Book(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe(nature.com)
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by mjul 3y ago
He explains it in the linked video presentation which is worth watching: the value being that your parser generator will complain about any ambiguity in the grammar (shift-reduce conflicts) rather than having that show up as a “wat?” at ru
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by mjul 3y ago
Now, it is served in avantgarde restaurants: e.g. by the Spanish Michelin star chef, Angel León. He is known as “chef del mar”, making novel dishes with the plants from the ocean in his restaurant, Aponiente: https://www.aponient
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by mjul 3y ago
Around year 1000 the vikings' went to Vinland, which was their name for North America. You can read about it in two sagas: The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks saga rauða) has a description of Erik's son Leif leading an expedition to
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First self-driving electric ferry takes to the water in Stockholm(thelocal.se)
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by mjul 3y ago
Snodgrass wrote a whole book on that topic: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (1999). It is available as PDF on his publications page: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/publications.html
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by mjul 4y ago
The Honda Myth by Masaaki Sato is an excellent book about Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa and the captivating history of how they built Honda, from motorcycles to Formula 1 and how they disrupted the US auto industry on the way with the
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by mjul 4y ago
The Toyota Production System was established during Shoichiro Toyoda's leadership. It is the company's "operating system" if you will, and has made an enormous impact, both in the auto industry and in other fields such a
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by mjul 4y ago
The Dutch tax authority has developed RegelSpraak a controlled natural language for defining tax rules that is also formally specified and compilable to several targets. There is a video of the team presenting how they built the DSL for tax
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by mjul 4y ago
It is a fascinating idea indeed. While Leibniz is widely known for his mathematics and philosophy, one of his lesser known ideas was the relation between law and computation. There is a small research community around it today. Look up Comp
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Noma 3.0(noma.dk)
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by mjul 4y ago
My guess is that it was Prolog Development Center (PDC) [1] the company behind Turbo Prolog and Visual Prolog [2]. They built a nice business providing scheduling and planning software to airlines. They are still around if you want to get i
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by mjul 4y ago
How to pronounce scone is another divisive topic in itself. Does it rhyme with gone or cone? Linguists at Cambridge University have published a map of the regional variations: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ca
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by mjul 4y ago
If you want the high-end take on this, check out the Spanish Michelin star chef, Angel León. He is known as “chef del mar”, making novel dishes with the plants from the ocean. Here is a short portrait in English: https://thebestc
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by mjul 4y ago
Just use you best judgement and you will be fine. Patterns are context specific advice about a solution and its trade-offs, not hard rules for every situation. Notice how pattern books will often state the relevant Context, the Problem itse
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by mjul 4y ago
This is its key weakness. You have to write many more tests and add a lot of predicates as pre/post conditions (invariants) to functions to check at runtime what a more modern compiler could have told you at compile time. It adds a lot
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by mjul 4y ago
Exactly. It ties to the excessive startup overhead. If you rename things and change stuff you must run the tests in a fresh JVM to ensure that everything has been evaluated in a consistent state rather ad hoc evaluation in the REPL. This me
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The Moorish invention that tamed Spain's mountains(bbc.com)
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by mjul 4y ago
I haven’t experienced this with Fleet after using it some months. However, from using the other JetBrains tools the performance killer for builds and indexing libraries and documentation has typically been slow file system access. These IDE
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by mjul 4y ago
Fleet, like the other JetBrains IDEs is indeed running on the JVM. It also has some components in Rust and a special GUI framework. There is a great series of blog posts about its architecture and design here with a lot of details: https:&
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by mjul 4y ago
Double entry accounting as a representation is a domain specific language for the people working in the field and as such is very useful. However, you might ask, is it also the right primitives to express accounting IT systems or could we t
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Instagram owner Meta fined €405m over handling of teens’ data(theguardian.com)
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by mjul 4y ago
Molten salt loops are not as difficult with current technology as they were when they were first introduced. There are some very interesting startups in this field working on delivering these reactors on an industrial scale rather than the
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by mjul 4y ago
He proved the supplemental oxygen issue moot by climbing K2 without it, in winter. https://www.climbing.com/people/nirmal-nims-purja-the-man-wh...

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