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When I wrote about the Emacs packages I use, I mentioned that I had Embark installed but barely used it because I didn't understand much about how to really use it. One reason for that is that while there are a bunch of articles on the web about things you...
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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ATS is a statically typed programming language that unifies implementation with formal specification. It is equipped with a highly expressive type system rooted in the framework Applied Type System, which gives the language its name. In particular, both...
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source should...
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5.15. Property Graphs # A property graph is a way to represent database contents, as an alternative to the usual (in …
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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A human wrote this essay. Proof of work. Harold Bloom was a professor at Yale University and a famous author and literary critic: think Roger Ebert but for books. Many considered him a prick and colleagues often bristled at him. This grumpy professor’s in...
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... and 23 years of tedious yak shaving. Ten years ago my rather anemic post on the Arcan project started to circulate. It got enough attention that I considered stopping right there and then. I do not care much for attention; most of my other open source...
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I run a number of websites, some of which could even be said to be popular. I want humans to visit these websites, enjoy these websites, make their change of trains at New Street in good time, investigate miscarriages of justice, or find out the play they...
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Suppose you want to write a database. You'd probably start by implementing relational algebra operators — projection, filter, join, etc. The easy way is to implement them as functions that take in tables and return tables, and assemble them into a larger...
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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only bounds are going to be the most impactful change to Rust that you’ve never heard of. They are currently being designed and developed by the Arm team (David Wood, Rémy Rakic, et al.) as part of the Sized Hierarchy and Scalable Vector Extension project...
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Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.