59nadir

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by 59nadir 10y ago
Well, to be fair, what was demonstrated here was that people didn't actually extract the data after multiple edits and tries, regardless of what tools they had at their disposal. I think the idea of an object pipeline is sound for prec
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> ... if I can't apt-get it, I'm not interested ... I feel bad for you, then. The Ubuntu repos (and Debian) have almost nothing that is even remotely new and will usually be behind on most things. Trying to keep configs for an
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> However, the pessimist in me says "why does anyone really need appliances connected to the internet?". I think it's important to answer this without any of the qualifications you write after it. No one needs it. It'
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Craig Wright is such an obvious fraud, liar and attentionseeker, but puts this fake "I don't want to be public!" facade on. If he was actually Satoshi he would've already been able to show it. People giving him the light
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Are you learning Bulgarian, though? It's not a terribly hard language and it's generally a positive things to the locals if you speak it, even if you have a terrible accent.
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Adding this correction: "Maps are more popular, but have a complicated relationship with records and maps have, due to historical reasons, not seen much light on the BEAM in general until lately." The correction is that maps a
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> Specifically vectors and maps. These exist all over the place, but no where (in my experience) are they as pain-free as clojure. You don't use vectors very much on the BEAM in general, so I wouldn't consider this very importa
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> Please, let's not pretend we'd not benefit massively from richer tooling here. Absolutely nothing about this project or the way they went about building it shows any tendency towards richer tooling. A web interface also does
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> But, I guess a huge part of their business is interacting with decrepit old systems used by insurers and states, and often require humans and fax machines and other such nonsense. Well, a huge part of their business was to have horde
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by 59nadir 10y ago
I smell a market ripe for the taking... Or maybe not. With that said, I actually thought about buying one of these, but I ended up just revamping some of my Emacs bindings. Then I ended up switching to vim, so chording became less of an iss
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by 59nadir 10y ago
One part of me thinks it's terribly romantic to envision a world where the professional gets to use the big, grand tools to practice his craft, but I think it's actually more comforting to know that anyone with access to the most
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by 59nadir 10y ago
I think it could be a mistake to put this out there when it's still so early. The features are not there(0) yet and it's likely to be overhauled a lot. It's an extremely exciting proposition and I both hope and think it will
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> Omg. My assessment was correct, after all. If your assessment was that I prefer being pragmatic and that I believe most things have a cost, then yes. I think macros can be done right (in Scheme, etc.), but even then they have a potenti
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> I am not interested in diverting the discussion from the topic. The topic was that static typing is superior to dynamic typing - i.e., more powerful and more flexible. > How does it translate to a "net win"? I do not care,
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> HN does not allow to continue a thread below a certain threshold. Click on the time (for example "2 minutes ago") to open the post and reply there. > My point is that you do not understand what does it mean that a bigger t
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Please stop editing your posts 40 minutes after you initially post them in order to muddle the post history. You're literally removing entire posts and adding completely new things, even as responses to responses. Work on your netique
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Do you feel like you should be able to make any nonsensical argument you want and people should take that as fact/proof? The idea that static type systems are better to use (in general) because you can make dynamic type systems on top
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> You know, there is a little funny thingy called "logic". And one of the most common tricks in logic is a proof by contradiction. When you're asking for a proof that static typing is superior, the simplest way is to start
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> With static typing you can do everything that is possible with a dynamic typing, at no additional cost [...] This is not necessarily true: Static typing quite often requires you to satisfy the type system and quite often is an exercise
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> Exactly. And you're apparently suggesting that there may not be a single case where you may want static constraints. No, I have consistently asked for objective proof that static typing is a net win over dynamic typing, something
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> You can build a dynamic type system on top of a static one. The opposite is impossible. What else is there to even talk about? We are talking about the value of different kinds of type systems and using them. Being able to build a dyna
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> 1) Dynamic typing is a subset of a static typing. This thing alone is enough. This is like saying that more syntax is better. No, cutting away from something can make it better. This argument is not at all enough to claim superiority.
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by 59nadir 10y ago
> Empirical evidence is nearly impossible in this area. Then stop arguing as if you have evidence. It's really that simple. Present something that is not derived from opinion and speculation and make this an argument that is not sub
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by 59nadir 10y ago
I love that the people who come into the comments to argue about the benefits of static typing seem to have totally missed the point that the post argues that you need evidence , not just beliefs.
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by 59nadir 10y ago
I think most nano users will end up using the one shipped with their distro, which means that the choice of fork will mean a lot for usage statistics. No one is going to go out of their way to install the best nano fork. With vim/emac
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by 59nadir 10y ago
The thread was specifically about usage as a glue and extension language.
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by 59nadir 10y ago
Posted on the other submission: If nothing else, I think reminding people that what they're "looking to do" (whatever that is) most likely is something they can do in whichever language they choose, and to somehow shoehorn th
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by 59nadir 10y ago
If nothing else, I think reminding people that what they're "looking to do" (whatever that is) most likely is something they can do in whichever language they choose, and to somehow shoehorn themselves into a language or a se
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by 59nadir 10y ago
The funny thing about this is that there is no language that simply allows you to make great things, because making great things really does not have anything to do with the language you use. The only types of areas where this is even remot
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by 59nadir 10y ago
I think you're reading a bit too much into his comment. It's true that the phrasing can seem dismissive, but I don't think it's meant as such to that extreme of a degree. It being a collection of wrappers is either true

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