Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
> If you wanted to do something like that in a declarative way, though, consider a spreadsheet with an intelligent evaluator. The spreadsheet is a declaration of a dependency relationship. When a number is changed, the numbers depending
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's a proof assistant. Not really something you use for number crunching, industry or not.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I hate foo/bar for some reason. I think it's because it is supposed to be "this is just whatever", and yet they force me to think about Kung Fu, the Foo Fighters and crowbars.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Yet composition in the OOP sense seems like it can be easily achieved in any other paradigm - so OOP does not seem to address composition in any distinct way.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> However...it would be completely impossible to sustain a population of 20 million people living at -20deg C for 3 months at a time, without spending significant amount of money on infrastructure specifically dedicated to making sure we
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by Dewie 12y ago
You seem to be very concerned for a giant rock. I'm not quite sure that Mars' feelings are so easily hurt, though.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> So is Canada in the wintertime. What an outlandish comparison. I know that Canadians seem to pride themselves on how cold it can get in their neck of the woods, but... come on. Indians and inuits managed to live there even before there
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by Dewie 12y ago
Don't be presumptuous.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> And I say this as an immigrant. ...who can easily just think "got mine".
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by Dewie 12y ago
> My experience: you kinda have to rethink what an IDE is. An IDE is an integrated development environment; emphasis on integrated. Having to, by yourself, put together a mixed assortment of tools for your development environment doesn&#
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Except that Docker and probably Rocket work really well. And the speed of development on the projects looks to have benefitted from using Go. By this you mean that people adopted Go because it is good (in a technical sense), and becaus
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by Dewie 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7962345
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by Dewie 12y ago
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/
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by Dewie 12y ago
Right now, it's more of a relieving thought really. In the sense that - no matter how much I screw up, none of it will matter when I'm dead.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> As weird as this might sound, Not necessarily weird - you sound just as self-obsessed as the rest of us.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Please don't be angry. That may seem like a natural response, but it is wasted output, serving as input into no productive process. No - be angry if that's what you are right now. Be sad, or envious, or bitter. Just try and m
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by Dewie 12y ago
So you don't know.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> and natural inclinations of programmers(to use the new shiny thing). It seems like C++ keeps getting shinier . Though organizations might try to stick to a limited subset of C++ anyway.
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by Dewie 12y ago
What does 'faster with OO' mean? Is there some implementation detail that is tied to, or heavily associated with, OO?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> And to be fair, Haskell does not go tremendously far in this direction. The languages which will truly profit from this are still in gestation. What are examples of taking it further?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Other than C and C++, Go is one of the best languages for controlling memory. Not freeing, of course, but making it very clear where there are allocations, where there are copies, exactly how much memory is being used by any particular
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by Dewie 12y ago
Hate is a strong and emotional word.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think I post a lot on places like HN to compensate for a lack of a social life. It's not like I even try to form any connection with people on forums online, so I'm not making friends, but I think there is a connection.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I tend to forgive this, though, because underneath it all we are simply simians with shoes, jockeying for social status and sex. People who say this seem to be the same kind of person who would ultimately ascribe most human behavior to
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by Dewie 12y ago
The writer is based in London and seems to be British. Did the article especially bring up cities like NYC and SF? Or the US? I didn't notice.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It sounds like "extensible languages" lives on in the Racket language.
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by Dewie 12y ago
There seems to be some stark contrasts in South Dakota.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> But for something aiming to fill the role of systems programming, it's just so incredibly different from everything else. It almost feels like they are going out of their way to make it as different as possible. Different compared
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by Dewie 12y ago
Rebol is one of the few languages where I was actually impressed by the code snippets that the introduction (that I read) had - they had to do with making simple GUIs for somewhat interesting/useful applications, and small, simple code
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by Dewie 12y ago
This also kind of sounds like the Hume programming language.

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