FYI, Imitone has a patent, I don't know what it covers or claims though.

(Jobs I'll give you.)

Since you mentioned you weren't sure: it's "cronyism", no 'h'.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cronyism

This is despite having an etymology that - at least according to etymonline - does come from greek "khronos"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cronyism

From the release notes:

2002-06-17 (2.5.0), "Parse (but do not implement) foreign keys."

At one point there was also a tool which would generate trigger rules to enforce foreign key constraints. (2008 Oct 15 (3.6.4), Added the source code and documentation for the genfkey program for automatically generating triggers to enforce foreign key constraints)

And tbh I'm not sure it was ever a plausible contender for commercial success, more like Carmack wanted to play with rockets. But that might be unfair; I would happily accept a correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace

I would assume it's a combination of globally shared known trajectories plus radar tracking stations.

At least, that's my understanding of it.

Both human-driven and robo-driven taxis are financially incentivised to spend as much time as possible carrying fare paying passengers and as little as possible driving empty to pick someone up.

Anyway, I agree that walking, cycling, and public transit, are all IMHO preferable to any form of taxi.

You make the type system statically encode categories of side-effects, so you can tell from the type of a function whether it is pure computation, or if not what other things it might do. Exactly what categories of side-effect are visible this way depends on the type system; some are more expressive than others.

But it means when you use a hash function you can know that it's, eg, only reading memory you gave it access to and doing some pure computation on it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040904214302/http://www.guinne...

> If there's any, even the slightest, chance that buying from a business might one day reflect badly on the civil servant in the procurement office, then they won't buy from that business.

You don't think that spending £4.1 million on this garbage might reflect badly on someone?

Edit: to be just slightly nicer about it: having a plain text version is great, that's a really good thing. But the "that's a valid choice" paragraph is unnecessary and just distracts from your actual article. If I pick the plain-text version it's because I want to just get straight to the point (other people may have other reasons), and I certainly don't need your validation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I think some of these people need to be reminded of the Bill Gates' quote about lines of code:

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”