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by Dewie3 11y ago
Maybe it's just a question of managing to remain detached from caring too much about all the yucky stuff. If you are passionate about a field, it goes to reason that you are much more prone to also worry when you see things that are
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> I found out a while back, and this is somewhat paradoxical, that if I care TOO much, I'm less happy. I have a feeling that this realization might be central to a part of Buddhist philosophy/mindset.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I couldn't manage to find one single positive article in this report [1]. So it's good for they that they got the opportunity to move (apparently they moved back for family reasons). [1] Really? Not even an article about a partic
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> A friend of mine comes from Iran, and the first time he went to a school meeting (his son was in the first or second grade) they offered sandwiches. He was extremely hungry, but stressed out, so he forgot that he was in a different cul
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Maybe they got their IT-timescale mixed up with our normal timescale. Things that happened in IT in the 70s on the normal timescale was like 200 IT years ago on the tech timescale, man.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> There are extremely smart people working on tools who keep forking out new frameworks/tools/components/scripts and a bigger pool of smart people who keep consuming it. Well, at least they get the privilege of being regar
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It wasn't until MGS4 before the Metal Gear Solid franchise got cutscenes which you could pause. Which was sorely needed because of how story driven the series is, and how long some of the cutscenes are -- I think the end of MGS4 was so
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> New operating systems today tend to be just ways of reimplementing Unix. If they have a novel architecture -- and some do -- the first thing to build is the Unix emulation layer. > How can operating systems research be relevant whe
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It seems like you already know the answer to your question. There are plenty of other programming-related things to learn besides programming languages, if you don't want to learn (esoteric?) programming languages. Enough to keep you b
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> I have noticed that Swift's enums are tremendously useful in this regard, but they are not "sexy" so this doesn't get discussed very much. Not sexy to whom? Algebraic data types are quite sexy right now, I'd
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by Dewie3 11y ago
My comment was actually referring to jheriko. :-]
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Did you know the Placebo Effect can occur even when you know it's a placebo? It's true. Wait... a meta-placebo? :-)
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by Dewie3 11y ago
There is always that one guy who gets offended over how obvious something is to him.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
She seems to want to use a more FP design anyway. In which case the code isn't just testable for her but good , more generally.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> It's not supposed to be easy. > [...] run it on multiple filesystems by firing up a virtual machine for each filesystem Yeah... I can see what you mean by not supposed to be easy .
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by Dewie3 11y ago
That function syntax is a nice example of C-isms bleeding through. If I want to write some arithmetic, I want something more declarative and succinct than C.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Right, don't have to think about compile time. Instead they sometimes have to think about post-compile time[1], i.e. code generation . Now you don't have to think about those weird bracketed capital letters. Just take care to che
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by Dewie3 11y ago
That's a nice kitchen sink full of languages.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Do you know of any introduction to algebraic effects that is more programming-focused than theoretical?
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by Dewie3 11y ago
The idea that more verbose == more readable is so annoying. It seems to be especially egregious in languages like Ada, which look like this to me (an uninitiated): okay here comes a function definition get ready function MyFun()
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Though there might be much to say about the different implementations of generics , I've found them to be easy to understand and use in languages. No type theory required. That has been more like "Oh, so that's the name for
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I obviously can't see the original comment. But though being labelled a communist might be like calling someone a nazi in general American culture, some people freely identify as such. Klabnik doesn't seem to have a problem with
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by Dewie3 11y ago
The article doesn't really get into many methods of verifying and testing software. If making unit tests was unusual up to very recently, who is to say that the current focus on unit tests isn't just a local optimum? - Generative
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by Dewie3 11y ago
They also described Swift's `Optional` type as innovative . https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Yeah, Go has interfaces. Just like any sane, decently modern statically typed language. And it uses it to declare interfaces between things. A great concept, like the idea behind abstract data types -- defining data types by what operatio
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Straight from the developer marketing mouth: > Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages. https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Though the upside to not growing old is that you don't have to become old.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Life on HN is relating philosophical and existential questions to successful entrepreneurs.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
No, life is a game! etc.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
He explicitly gives standard machinery like the a boolean type and natural numbers, presumably to show more clearly what the parts are built up from. You probably wouldn't need to write all of that to use HList at a later point.

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