Dewie3

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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Speaking specifically to do notation, it has no impact on performance, being a purely syntactic transformation. Of for Christ's sake, I of course mean the bind and the `>>` and whatever that it desugars to. You aren't a
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Damn. And I thought that C++ was so hardcore [1] by now that it was only seriously used by full-time programmers. :) [1] Read: complicated.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Maybe they should do some research on staying at home and quietly meditating. Simple, probably rewarding, but doesn't cost any money. :) At least the entertainment business can console itself with the fact that they're pirating le
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Because syntax isn't that big of a deal to most people, I guess. They are more concerned with actually useful things, like safety features and other buzzwords . ;) But like mentioned, there is Nim. Which at least have the indentatio
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by Dewie3 11y ago
The grandparent wrote "great Lisp". Presumably the poster doesn't think that ELisp is that.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
You know what I mean!
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Did any rastafarians complain about that name, or raise this concern? On the other hand, I can't imagine there are many rastafarians lurking on tumblr.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
You're right, unixprogrammer ; real hackers write everything in the venerable C. On the other hand, there is a fair bit of negativity in this thread, just because it is C. That might not be in the hacker spirit , so to speak.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> So, although technically the existence of C doesn't make sense, as it is superseded by C++ (except couple of things), C is winning in the branding department. Programming Languages are in the domain of UX. Type systems, syntax, RA
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I'm talking about the Monad style in general, with the do notation, closures and what have you. Typically such things add an interpretive overhead, in the same way that a formatting print function adds interpretive overhead unless
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I think I'd rather have multiprocess Firefox, even if I have to be a bit more judicious with my tab usage. I don't really know if having 40 tabs open is useful for me, or if it just makes me scatterbrained.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
You might be overplaying whatever fear people have of mixing imperative and functional code. It is fairly straightforward to not let mutable variables muck up pure functions -- A pure function doesn't do anything but return a value.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It would be great if this hypothetical mechanism didn't have any interpretive overhead too, for the cases when we need to use it for imperative code for efficiency reasons.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
There is a difference between philosophy in general and thinking and pondering over nihilistic thoughts about existence itself that make you depressed. "There is no point to life, and that makes me deeply sad. I can't do anything
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> But really you don't need any of that, if you're passing a slice to something and some knucklehead is calling append on it, take him out back and shoot him. "You don't need mechanisms to prevent you from doing stuff
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> I have noticed something: philosophers and analytical minds seem unhappy, religious minds seem just accepting, and those who "do not appear" very intelligent are having a freaking good time in life. Which begs the question: w
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Abstract questions are great when you don't quite know what to hone in on, so that you don't get prematurely bogged down in specifics. Specifics which might be superflouous to your question, or maybe even misleading. They are also
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Maybe we should also teach them to brush their minds to avoid anxiety. Isn't it children that should be teaching us about that? :)
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I've long wondered about whether adults really aren't wiser than children. Smarter, yes, but the wisdom might be largely a blob of limiting and pessimistic beliefs. And a very fragmented wisdom: adults argue and wage wars over
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I didn't care about things when I was a kid which I do care about now. The difference is that I learnt that some things are "better" than others. And I only care about those things from a place of fear of being deprived of
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by Dewie3 11y ago
If there was a twin of me out there... we wouldn't get along anyway.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
PhD from MIT? I like him already.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> When you're checking your email in your text editor something is wrong. Though is that worse than checking it in your terminal? :) I haven't gone anywhere close to total darkside like that. But I'm playing with the thoug
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> I keep wondering if people making comments like yours are having much more severe perf issues than I am, or if you're just extremely picky. Programmers have high standards for text editors. :) And why not? AAA games are getting bi
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I suspect that it might be simple to make something like JS in 10 days when you can effectively delegate the heavy lifting of making it fast etc. (see last slide) to many other people after it has become ubiquitous. :)
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Not sure what's ironic about that. If I was already skilled at being stoic, then why would I need a course on it? :) And I intended to sign up for it because I was curious, not because I was already sold on the concept.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> But they wanted to have years of sex with lots of women first then when they get older raise children. Right. The "get it out of my system"-type. Thinking that they want to spend 'the rest of their life' with a pers
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I guess I could make a comment about the apparent blending of stoicism and mindfulness. But right now I want to give a critique on the site itself - or be a grump, depending on how you view it. 1. The sign-up says that I should enter my ema
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Well, men have to according to most people.
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Nice numbers, but what's the point? Times they are a changin'?

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