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Earlier discussion for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075076

This is pretty cool. It reminded me of Hillview (https://github.com/vmware/hillview), something I worked on a few years ago while interning at VMware research (a few team members in fact used to work at Microsoft Research).

Hillview is a lot less fancy at this point, but the ambition is that it scales a lot better (that is, to way more than 500K rows. In the order of trillions).

Paper here: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p1442-budiu.pdf

The top comment on YouTube raises a valid point:

> I've programmed both functional and non-functional (not necessarily OO) programming languages for ~2 decades now. This misses the point. Even if functional programming helps you reason about ADTs and data flow, monads, etc, it has the opposite effect for helping you reason about what the machine is doing. You have no control over execution, memory layout, garbage collection, you name it. FP will always occupy a niche because of where it sits in the abstraction hierarchy. I'm a real time graphics programmer and if I can't mentally map (in rough terms, specific if necessary) what assembly my code is going to generate, the language is a non-starter. This is true for any company at scale. FP can be used at the fringe or the edge, but the core part demands efficiency.

Here's Mozilla's donation page: https://donate.mozilla.org

Is there a public resource somewhere that describes the assignment/gives some guidelines? I would like to give it a try.

I agree, and you could even extrapolate that thought to getting rid of timezones altogether and adopting UTC everywhere.

Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I appreciate your pun. It is indeed about time.

Sure, but here the pixel values are directly used as spatial coordinates, so it makes sense to mention this.

This topic is also addressed in the last season of House of Cards.

I love Arch and the AUR, but people often warn about using unofficial repositories like archlinuxfr. You might be better off installing an AUR-helper by cloning the git-repo and building the package yourself.