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What is the difference between development and R&D?

I was asked by a colleague to explain clearly the difference between ordinary development and research and development (R&D) and was unable to do it. After reading Wikipedia, I still don’t have the precise answer.

Network computation

I’m pretty sure that someone has already thought about it and researched it extensively, but I’m having trouble finding any materials or even keywords to look for, for the idea that I was thinking about recently.

Categories of ‘for’ loops

I remember once reading some research where a body of C code had been analysed, and the findings were that the vast majority of for loops could be categorised into about five categories, corresponding to the functional equivalents of map, filter, fold, etc.

What is a good rule-of-thumb for naming link-tables?

In the same way that a publication table might relate to a person table via subscriptions, or a company table might relate to a person table via employee, I’m wondering if there is a descriptive way to relate a company table to a company_type table.