Dewie3

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by Dewie3 11y ago
Even having unique skills is not enough. People can still take advantage of you if you aren't career- or business-savvy enough. This is a complex environment, not simply a question of being special snowflake 10X programmer or whateve
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It also seems that people think that Rugby is more dangerous than American Football, what with the general lack of protective gear. But that doesn't seem to be the case, either.
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> I thought maybe this gave French youth an edge with arithmetic, and this slight edge might translate to strong mathematics foundations later in life. As opposed to regularly "doing the arithmetic" 8 x 10?
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It's a bachelor thesis... probably doesn't aspire to be the new authority on HPC. :)
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I'll agree that the sentiment "death to C" is hyperbolic and unrealistic. A very, very long term phasing out is more realistic. :)
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> There's no perfect language. > I'm sure someone is already rewriting the Linux kernel and all of the Unix-y tools in Rust or Go or whatever. I won't hold my breath. You're right, man. Nothing is perfect and we ca
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> But 'patio11 is not a politician and I expect his language reflects strength of feeling more than anything else. Yeah... strength of feeling of being perceived as "un-American".
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You sound... defensive.
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Willpower is great for when you have no belief in your own instincts or smarter approaches to getting what you want, which for some people is always . It's a great tool for smashing square pegs (with sufficient force) into whatever
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> The movement is rather Marxist in character, but this capitalist encourages you to [...] > I’m not a Marxist — Yes, you said that in the opening sentence... Americans are very defensive about coming off as "Marxist"/
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> while being fast since it's compiled to C. Which is fast compared to what? Being compiled to JS? It's not like being compiled to a "fast language" automatically makes that compiled program fast . You also have to c
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> I'm still not sure how the discussion got sidetracked into discussing Rust, though. Yes, let's generalize - reading the blog and the comments, this "case sensitivity ruins productivity"-problem seems to only be a pr
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So, a man started exercising and stuff in his older age.
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Damn - if only programmers ruled the world, there could be world peace. Imagine a world of total conformance and homogeneity, identity stripped away in the name of standardization and streamlining. Finally, we would all understand each othe
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Everything can be looked at as a mere tool. To other people, it's more than that - an identity, a culture, a history, self-expression. It might have felt like a drag if I was forced to learn to play and listen to jazz, like in music cl
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It seems that the JS community keeps butchering the word "isomorphic". Now, no one has a patent on words, nor should they. But put the word "isomorphic" near to <programming language name> and confusion might arise
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> grep and emacs isearch-forward are such great tools for quick code searching and this will break them. If you're using Emacs to begin with... well there is little reason to complain about the default behaviour of functions and key
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Yeah... not gonna go down that road.
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Or they wanted a more holistic impression of him in order to better help him. But yes, your theory is likely too.
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Define "discipline". "Just do it"?
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Glad to see that I've still got some fans.
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> But, the point of the blog post was after all to get you guys to read the actual paper. Don't be disingenuous in the process. I see you've changed the opening "Metaprogramming" to "Runtime metaprogramming"
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> The paper discusses compile-time metaprogramming (and its disadvantages relative to this approach) in section 6. Too bad that they didn't do it in the article, then. I guess it isn't "common wisdom" enough.
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> Metaprogramming and reflection are slow. That’s a common wisdom. [...], or really any metaprogramming abstraction in modern languages unfortunately comes at a price. Hold on. That might well be true for dynamic reflection. But metapro
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> It seems you are more concerned more about the software development experience and in that regard you see benefits. But I'm more curious and concerned about the benefits in solving real world problems. I don't see the distinc
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> Your current posting style didn't work for your last account. It doesn't seem to be working for this account. Yes, I was an asshole on my "Dewie" account, and recently on Dewie2 as well. But go over the posts I pres