I have to admit I got to https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm and seriously considered if the site is just pulling my leg. I think they're being sincere but I can't be 100% sure.
As someone with enough math background to be comfortable with one letter variable lanes and terse notation, this is still needlessly annoying to me because of the removal of almost all non-essential whitespace and grouping related definitions together on the same line instead of putting them on separate lines, and then using blank lines to separate "paragraphs".
I get it and I've heard it before, it's supposed to make it easier to fit more on one screen which is supposed to reduce cognitive burden. You are free to like what you like of course, but it just makes everything look like a jumble.
And even in a math context, I get frustrated if there's no simple glossary or surrounding prose to describe what's going on. Very few people write math this way, as a dense jumble of symbols. Even in the context of written mathematics, this is a very unusual style. I feel like J fans talk about it as if it's a totally normal thing to do if only you knew a little more math.
> Even in the context of written mathematics, this is a very unusual style. I feel like J fans talk about it as if it's a totally normal thing to do if only you knew a little more math.
Yes, it's very unusual. I think the argument is more that there is a tradeoff, that "inflation" (whitespace, long names, multiple classes/files/etc) has a cognitive cost too even it it's more approachable, and that this other alien-seeming style can work very well for some people. There's a lot to love in the APLs even you ultimately don't buy the fanboy arguments, if only for the lessons of just how different the world can be.
I have not applied to this program but I've gone through a part-time MBA. I doubt that an online program for working professionals is as rigorous about references as, say, undergrad admission to an Ivy League program or Oxford or Hogwarts or something. Just get a couple of coworkers with a similar advanced degree to write something that says "this person exists and I think they can handle the load" and you'll be fine. Remember that college is a business; if you look like you can both handle the program and pay for it, they'll let you in.
I once worked for a guy who'd obviously seen the term Servant Leadership on a bumper sticker somewhere and figured that meant he was the leader and we were the servants. Worst boss I ever had, and I've been doing this 30+ years and have had a bunch of bad bosses.
Why not just 'competent leadership', where 'competent' means 'figure out what your people need you to do and do it'?
PTP is more precise so it's much harder to synchronize over long distances. Even in data centers it benefits from hop-by-hop participation from the routers involved.
> Things get more interesting when AS64510 signals for 2001:db8::/48 to be withdrawn by Cloudflare (AS13335)
Typo - shouldn't that be AS64511?
...and...
> The MRAI specifies the minimum amount of time ... between each BGP advertisement update.
Each update _per prefix, per peer_. RFC4271 sec.9.2.1.1 says
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[MRAI] determines the minimum amount of time that must elapse between an advertisement
and/or withdrawal of routes to a particular destination by a BGP speaker to a peer
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Yeah, which not only doesn’t dilute the main brand, it also doesn’t even dilute the Sprinter brand. Sprinters are called out by name in rap songs, lusted after for van life builds, etc. EV vans make a ton of sense commercially and personally.
In the us they don't sell Mercedes-Benz trucks. instead they have a brand 'freightliner' that sells them with a different logo. You can get remove badge and fit a mercedes one if you want but almost nobody does
> This document describes an implementation of J in C. The reader is assumed to be familiar with J and C.
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