Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
"Dynamically typed" doesn't mean "refuses to give any type errors, ever".
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by Dewie 12y ago
> This isn't that different from most other languages. Based on what people tend to complain about, some languages have more should-be-avoided parts than others. I guess no language is perfect... but that is so obvious that it doesn
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by Dewie 12y ago
Oh damn, I didn't know they were the same person. All I knew about him beforehand is from watching this video[1], but it's weird to read about a person and then find out that they also were the same person that you knew from somew
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Working memory has been likened to a mental scratch pad: you use it to keep relevant data in mind while you’re completing a task. (Imagine a cross-examination, in which a lawyer has to keep track of the answers a witness has given, and
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by Dewie 12y ago
I agree to a degree, though some things are at least confined to a certain dimensions: like strong/weak typing. A continuum more than a binary distinction, but at least you can say things like "stronger" and "weaker&quot
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by Dewie 12y ago
> And makes your code 20% longer, which makes for a lot of extra fun not-really-so-cost-free-after-all maintenance. Just 20%? Sounds like a good deal, considering those that brag that brag that "over half of our code base are just t
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by Dewie 12y ago
Some people - who do understand type systems - only think of static type systems as type systems . And in that regard they might look at "dynamically typed langauges" as having "weak type systems", since they are ofte
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by Dewie 12y ago
> This is an argument for unit tests, not for a statically typed language. > Type errors tend to be very few and far between compared to logic errors. The divide between type errors and logic errors is entirely dependent on the la
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by Dewie 12y ago
> As we've reported before, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that until the late 17th Century people did not sleep in one long uninterrupted stretch, but in two segments, separated by a period of one or two hours in which they
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by Dewie 12y ago
I have - tried to - read some posts by doublec where the topic is programming in the ATS lang. But he apparently also likes to dip his feet in simpler languages like Rust. (:P)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I feel that it is a bit disingenuous to claim they are equivalent if the solution to maintaining a call stack is to explicitly maintain a stack structure. You're funny. Equivalent in a computational sense.
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by Dewie 12y ago
The problem is Just-so stories[1] that have no basis in evidence, but can be moulded to sound plausible given any kind of phenomena. So imagine there are two mutually exclusive phenomena - chances are that you could come up with a plausib
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by Dewie 12y ago
> , but my CS professors made it clear that iteration is basically just a special case of recursion. That seems a bit disingenuous, since iteration and general recursion are fundamentally equivalent. So you could say that "recursion
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by Dewie 12y ago
You forgot to put your † somewhere.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Weird intro.
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by Dewie 12y ago
More C => more Good. Balance has been restored.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Hi, could you solve this thing called "n queens problem" for me within 3 hours? Thanks. Hmm.
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by Dewie 12y ago
You could also run Emacs as a server.
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by Dewie 12y ago
C++ is well-understood? I don't get that impression from people who know it.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's fascinating. Corporations and rich owners of industry already have bargaining power by... being big and having money. There's a lot of wiggle room for abuse of power and influence while staying within the confines of the law.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I've been thinking about that for the last few days, and I think that's the best solution, if it's possible. Optimizations might clutter up the code and make the intent not clear. Writing idiomatic code and hoping that the co
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by Dewie 12y ago
There are 50 sovereign countries in Europe.
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by Dewie 12y ago
"Bikeshedding" has become yet another empty dismissal. The colour of a bikeshed is irrelevant when designing a nuclear reactor. But the "bikeshed" of a webpage has to do with usability, which is a critical component of a
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's certainly very attractive to try to make other people more happy when that means that we can squeeze more juice out of them. It seems we finally have enough stuff and comforts[1] to be able to question what exactly we need more
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by Dewie 12y ago
People have co-opted actual, real diagnosis and started to use them to describe things that are vaguely related/associated with that thing. People who are adamant about being tidy and organized "have OCD". People who are bumm
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Or Asm, for that matter (likely even fewer programmers); at that level, basic concepts like memory addressing and pointers become almost "obvious facts of life". In my intro-to-java-class, indirection was one of the first thi
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by Dewie 12y ago
> If you think an engineering degree is tough, try doing one while also training 30+ hours/week. ;) At least it sounds like nice variety . It's probably easier to do 40 hours of study + 30+ hours of exercise a week, rather tha
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by Dewie 12y ago
HN had a story about a former football player that is now homeless because of traumas sustained during his football career. People seemed to agree with that article. But apparently not this statement.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> At the worst you sound anti-technology, Aah, a Luddite, seize him! Maybe it's not anti-technology as much as anti-cram-everything-into-the-browser. Some people think that full-fledged applications should be kept out of the browser
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Although the length of your post worries me that you might actually believe what you are saying. > Please do not post such comments again, there are people on here that will not realize you're joking. What is so dangerous ab

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