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by 59nadir 11y ago
> I’ve been picking up Go lately, and I wanted to apply it to a project that I could sink my teeth into. > What I came up with is very-much-not-idiomatic-go, but it does map (basically) line for line with the original Turbo Pascal. Wh
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by 59nadir 11y ago
I don't mind anyone using the bible in any technical capacity during a job interview. It's clearly not about religion. The reason I said what I said is because you keep saying things like "It's the totalitarian nature of
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by 59nadir 11y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure most people reading this thread will have the same reaction, though not about him.
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> You actually can't. I had to download Reddit Enhancement Suite today (where I previously didn't bother at work) only to be able to hide r/The_Donald from r/all. It's just fucking everywhere, I can't take i
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> I just came from a project where Rust was a cult. Everything was rewritten in Rust even though much of the C code base worked very well. Because Rust! I'm not saying anything specifically about this case, because clearly the infor
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> If site names were encrypted, listing entries in your password store would require a prompt for your password. As it should, yes. Any interaction with the password manager regarding my stored passwords should require the master passwor
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> Perhaps they value the publicity (and resulting discussion of their work as "serious art") more than the extra money a regular release could have brought. ... which is exactly what the previous posters said: The album isn&#x2
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Why should there be a loading screen for a static site with almost no content on it?
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Previous fairly lively discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412829
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Why does anyone need to be "the asshole"? Neither of them seem like assholes. No one is doing anything wrong... One guy is saying "What if?" and the other is saying "Perhaps that wouldn't happen like you imagin
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It's also especially annoying when you consider that Gruber seems opposed to the idea of anyone else fleshing out Markdown properly, but he's not doing anything himself. At some point what he did with Markdown was basically just s
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I can't speak for anyone else, but it seems exceptionally ridiculous to me that you'd make a choice of which technology to use based on whether or not your username is available. I don't know if I'd downvote anyone for t
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Things like these are why #archlinux on Freenode hates Antergos; they're not responsible for how badly other communities handle their OS. The amount of troubleshooting that comes down to "Oh, that means Antergos/whoever are c
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by 59nadir 11y ago
I can't say I've had to fiddle that much. If we're talking things like deciding which packages to install, I have a script that clones my explicitly installed packages and logs them to a file, and then is able to read it and
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by 59nadir 11y ago
If you're only going to use one language, I guess Java is a good candidate. I don't see why you should be using only one language, though. Besides; if you're only going for one language, I think there are better candidates th
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by 59nadir 11y ago
> GitHub is suppose to be synonymous with innovation... What was their innovation previously, though? I think they built a pretty great site around git, but I struggle to see where this massive innovation is.
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Am I understanding you correctly when I assume that you mean you share data across threads?
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> Since the application relies heavily on sharing resources between sockets... Which resources?
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by 59nadir 11y ago
I can't fathom how hard life with Scala has to be if map() is something you have issues with. Someone is clearly way in over their head. At least have him go through a tutorial or two, jesus...
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I find it interesting that everyone's default mode is somehow that a developer/studio should be able to dictate what people show from their game and whether or not they can make money from it. Even though I find the idea of making
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> the antics of a 20-something prankster. Most antics of 20-something pranksters don't cost their country diplomatic favors, but of course North Korea is gonna make sure this one does. That's why it's so incredibly obvious
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What if there was a model where it depended less heavily on your machine because of over 20 years of development with the goal of providing stable, robust systems aimed specifically at allowing you to run many things in parallel? What if th
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by 59nadir 11y ago
> Well that would depend how long you run it for. They don't have to be simultaneous. The long way of saying "No, I can't, but I really don't want to accept that there might be a better model for this than my out of t
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by 59nadir 11y ago
It's not odd if you consider the general theme of the list. It's not as if it's meant to be an exhaustive list of programs and which languages they're written in; in that case there would be more languages than 5 + &quot
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by 59nadir 11y ago
For general cases, I agree that 200 MBs isn't enough to consider very important nowadays, but I still don't get how we're automatically talking about language productivity being a trade-off. Is the assumption that Python is a
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by 59nadir 11y ago
> Akka's addition to the actor model - location transparency - takes the actor model a little further and coupled with Scala makes a really nice language and concurrency pairing. In terms of location transparency, what are we referr
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by 59nadir 11y ago
Nowhere in this article does it really state that they're less productive in Lua, though. In fact, the main engineer on it is well versed in it. Your 5% may actually be negative in this case. From where do you get this impression that
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> Also, I find Armstrong's fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Because odds are, they're wrong. You might find this[0] blog post by A
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A few weeks to reach a solid level, most likely, provided you actually practice. If you type a lot of boilerplate code (which really is the only area where typing speed will hurt you) you'll notice a difference, but I'd argue that
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I read an interesting article on a woman who had been raped (intercourse while sleeping, waking up in the middle) and for her (emphasis on that being the case for her ) the worst thing was that everyone was telling her "You must be de

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