Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
> Same for France or Spain. Spain is another country with several languages; Spanish, Galician, Basque, Catalan. Those who speak the minority languages would presumably need to also speak Spanish if they want to be able to live and func
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> There are half as many women studying CS today as there were in the 80's [0]. I think it's much more believable that cultural factors that have inadvertently hurt women have caused this than asserting that the innate interest
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Wouldn't that also have made parsing simpler?
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I said that it hasn't been my experience IN NORWAY. And then you give as examples Paul Graham, Silicon Valley and the GitHub company. Are you even trying to be coherent? Do you even have any experience with living in Norway or the Ne
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Idris is Turing Complete. Total functions are opt-in.
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> I'm beginning to feel that the real advantages of FP are being obfuscated by unusual syntax. Or that unusual syntax is precisely motivated by trying to seamlessly and naturally express FP code. Either that or they were just bein
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Are you denying that women are being heavily discriminated against in developed countries, like Norway or the Netherlands? Are they? That hasn't been my experience, in Norway. I'm not a woman though. > Technology and entre
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That makes a lot of sense to me; Rust is a much more ambitious and interesting - from a programming language point of view - project than Go. I think that it as a language would appeal much more to the prototypical "language geek"
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Its sad but its true and I wish I knew what to do about it. For us that have already been spoiled by modern computing, we need to be shown what useful stuff that we can do by learning about computers (obviously we would need to be
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by Dewie 12y ago
> , system languages (Go, Rust), How is Go not another example of how "programming languages have stagnated"[0] ? You could argue that it is really practical and productive, but that is a separate point to whether it or not it
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> Such barriers to entry Reading a manual/tutorial?
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How hard is it for people to switch, if they want/have to? They might be dependent on GitHub issues. That might be preventable by using some issue tracker that can actually be put under git (like Ditz), though I guess it makes collabor
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by Dewie 12y ago
> , but logic bugs also cause security issues. See for instance SQL Injection attacks. Though it seems that some languages, or at least how they are used, are more disciplined when it comes to treating things like SQL queries/comman
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I have to strenuously disagree with you (respectfully, of course) Try not to trip on those eggshells.
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> Ask them if they are proposing to pay your full salary for that 4 year period! Plus more for the four year experience gap (if you can't really do anything else related to your old job).
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Well, the sample is quite small, Regards, Peanut gallery on every article on some research
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> "oh, we don't really enforce those unless you're at the executive level anyway" They don't trust that you won't 'stab them in the back' - sign a written agreement. You feel queasy about how it mi
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by Dewie 12y ago
What if I want to listen to music, but I don't mind someone talking to me if they need something? What if I want to concentrate with no interruptions, including no noise/music from headphones?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> but the fact that "hjkl" is not "jkl;" -home keys- On American keyboards, anyway. That isn't how the keys are laid out on modern Dutch keyboards, though I don't know what they were like when Vim was creat
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This sed substitution thing seems to be a cute trend to express "fixed that for you". It goes nicely with programmer's propensity to express themselves in needlessly arcane ways.
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> If a buffer overflow in your code meant being fired, would you turn off subscript checking? If I could get fired for my implementation not being efficient enough (and the performance hit from the bounds checking mattered as shown throu
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Rust cannot remove `unsafe` without being useless for its target, and useless as a language (it wouldn't even have FFI). I like to think of Haskell as a parallel: It guarantees side effect-free code. But you still need an escape h
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Go for safety. We do not need yet another unsafe language. We have plenty of those. Do we? The only ones I hear about people using are C/++. On the other hand, safe systems languages seem to end up being forgotten, as people opt
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by Dewie 12y ago
> That's kind of what compilers are for. To be black boxes? Yes, they seem to have a long history of being that. If I want to implement a stack data type being backed by an array, and I can not be sure that bounds checking is optimi
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I'm intentionally separating the handling of runtime errors (e.g., memcache request fail) from validation errors (garbage data causes a map to have a nil entry) and unexpected errors (whoops, that shouldn't have been nil). I
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> If each of those getOrElse() is an actual potential runtime failure (as opposed to just something that could in theory be nil, but you know won't be, by construction), then it's something you're going to need to deal wit
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by Dewie 12y ago
First world country with over 300 million people? As well as several other factors I'm sure. You aren't doomed to failure just because one facet of your society is sub par (education in this case, allegedly).
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> Go compiles very quickly, but that actually didn't impact us very much since we have largely been using interpreted languages on the backend. I'll betcha those poor Java programmers get pretty excited about this, though! Oh?
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I'm Norwegian.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Indeed; how healthy something is is measured by how long we as a species have been doing it... /s

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