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damusneton France income taxes calculator is now open-source

Yes, the M language is used for the rules and calculations, though you have many other applications in python. This presentation[0] gives more info about why. TL;DR it started in the '80s.

[0] https://forum.openfisca.fr/t/presentation-du-code-source-en-...

damusneton Show HN: Unirest

Laravel kept complaining it couldn't convert Response Object to string or json encode. Looked nice though :-(

damusneton The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

The "next 20 posts" link goes to localhost...

damusneton How to find a short domain name

Does it mean that all 4-letter-.com domain names are taken?

damusneton Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing

it does

damusneton Ask HN: Why Google does not love GitHub?

Maybe it's more like Github doesn't pay proper attention to Google? Just guessing though, I haven't actually checked Github's SEO, and wouldn't event know where to begin.

The StackOverflow guys on the other hand have always said how they designed the site especially for Google, and keep on optimizing it accordingly.