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Do you have any links for efficient ways to handle time window constraints etc ?

It’s not just humans - https://youtu.be/n_9RjDqJ7Zs

I think Stewart Brand’s concept of Pace Layers fits well with the city metaphor of how software changes over time at different rates https://sketchplanations.com/pace-layers

Another good one is http://calca.io, very like Soulver but also has simple graphing, runs on mac, iOS and Windows

Fab summary, thank you !

This article linked above covers it well, highly recommended: https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/

Azure support Timescale in their PasS - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-iot-and-time-se...

The cost, god the cost has got so much higher. I love SQL Server but am being forced off it, especially as you need enterprise to do queryable replicas etc.

Agreed. As ever, it depends a lot on the type of work and how big the system is. We use a lot of SQL (not sprocs), but are moving back to LINQ for reasons of composition and maintainability. I love writing SQL, but in our system which is north of 300 tables, on a project over 10 years old now, the lack of compatibility and general lack of static dependencies in SQL is hurting us more and more

I think it very much depends on how hard your problem is. Small problems / search spaces will be fine in Prolog, but most realistic sized problems will quickly exhaust brute force search, and you will need to consider Local Search (like OptaPlanner), or Mixed Integer Programming, specialised Constraint Programming etc. There is a whole field of study on this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_optimization

This 1000%. I'm both an ex-ruby dev, and a current C# / F# guy. Ruby is great for throwing things together and installing a load of functionality through Gems. It's 3 years later when your trying to maintain and refactor that it all comes back to bite. RubyMine does help so you can at least do rename refactorings most of the time.

There is still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_JServ_Protocol which Apache, nginx and IIS support

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I've been working with F# for about 5 years now, love it. The .net ecosystem has a huge amount of libraries available, performance is excellent, and F# is a joy to develop it.

Agreed, we sometimes play the truth seeking game, but on social media the game is much more often the tribal team virtue signalling game

I've reprogrammed myself to only get the dopamine hit when I delete old or unneeded code :-)

+1 for use of the term magpieism ;-)

They posted a warning that the uptick in Teams usage and general cloud use has meant they have much less spare capacity - see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft...

See also Mercury, FP logic programming like the love child of Prolog and Haskell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(programming_language)

The book is brilliant, highly recommended

We push text files into our git repo, that is hosted on a local GitLab. Gives us the nice visuals, with good support for inline code/xml/data/whatever, and searchability, and you can add new files, or edit existing ones, directly in the WebUI

Out of interest, which country are you in ? Approaches to education are quite varied across the world.

I'm not a mathematician, but I think it's about extending the idea of a scalar and a single rotation (Complex numbers) into a scalar + 3 rotations (Quaternions). The idea can be extended further to a scalar with 7 rotations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion, but no further, for reasons I don't understand.

Great discussion - https://codeburst.io/software-estimation-in-the-fractal-dime...

There is also http://nessos.github.io/LinqOptimizer/

The Concurrent ML library for F# is https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac

Depends on your requirements, and the message throughput, but we have had great success using a database as a message broker. We get atomic commits on jobs, audit history, database backup is all we need for recovery, and a less complex stack. We did use RabbitMQ, but replaced it with using SQL Server, and the sql notifications to make it efficient. Couldn't be happier, but we only do thousands of messages a day, not sure I'd use the same approach with millions.

Agent Based Modelling, an approach for modelling complex systems - The most popular open source tech is Java based NetLogo. Here is the web version, hit setup and then run to see an example simulation of ants collecting food - http://netlogoweb.org/launch#http://netlogoweb.org/assets/mo...