Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
> , presumably because Rust is newer and this author has other bones to pick with Python. Presumably because this attitude is what you've seen from the author before? Or presumably because you just assume that he is a "Magpie D
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> How often do you start up an editor per day? Well, the issue submitter wrote: > I usually open Atom using the Shell command "atom [filename]" So it might be that he opens up the editor many times a day. Anyway, I don'
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by Dewie 12y ago
Those academia people love themselves some horrible syntax. /s
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by Dewie 12y ago
> it's not unreasonable, especially if addressed to people coming from mostly-imperative languages (C or Python). Perhaps not, but how it is brought up (and worded) feels a bit dismissive of Rust. Which would be fine, if it were not
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Of this decade. He still seem to have unconventional opinions on software (maybe not on global variables in particular any more, though).
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by Dewie 12y ago
Moore seems to have a very different conceptualization of what good software is compared to the common wisdom.
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by Dewie 12y ago
My electricity bills seem to have been more expensive last summer than last winter (obviously no heating in the summer, and no cooling), which I suspect is because of less precipitation (though I haven't looked into it).
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Right now we are at the "please let your lawns get a bit brown" level. Which seems a bit like trying to minimize global warming by telling people not to use gass-based ovens; a relatively petty concern. Which seems to suggest
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by Dewie 12y ago
Can anyone here corroborate that there are better alternatives to operating systems than the Unix-likes? Maybe anyone that agrees with Rob Pike's view on this in particular? All I seem to hear is that Unix-y OSs are great, but I don&#x
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by Dewie 12y ago
If you intend to actually read a whole such guide - skip to the end first and notice the "TODO" at the end of the article/guide. Just so that you aren't disappointed when you actually come that far.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> [Disclaimer: Didn't downvote you] I don't think you'd be able to even if you wanted to, since you replied to him.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> which doesn't give much leeway for any social events. If social drinking is part of that culture (outside of common meals, like dinner).
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I never pretended to be an expert on Millenials and my harmless tweeting about them was solely based on personal observation with the reactions to the tweets predictably running along generational lines. "I intentionally stirred s
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by Dewie 12y ago
> California, America's "salad bowl", is facing a drought that threatens to turn it into a dust bowl. Then how about it stops trying to grow rice in semi-deserts? That's probably much more of a problem in that regard
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> There's an obvious bias here. It's good that this was posted to a programming community, then. So that it can balance that bias out with its own "less languages are good because it is more immediately practical, who need
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by Dewie 12y ago
Because this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8374821 And I think it's just silly to say things like "snowboard" outside of English, instead of just translating it. It's just "snow" and &q
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by Dewie 12y ago
> That said, if another language already has a word with the desired meaning, why not use it instead of inventing a new one? To maintain consistency? I think there is value trying to keep a language somewhat internally consistent. I&#x27
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I live in germany and while germans generally have little patriotism they're fierce defenders of their language, which led to all sorts of domain-specific terms being translated across many different kinds of media. Be it movies,
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I'd immediately follow up with a self-deprecation: "that's just a fancy label for white-collar prostitute" Then what is an employee? A prostitute that is exclusive to one client?
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by Dewie 12y ago
They used Java as the static language, which is relatively cumbersome as far as statically typed languages go, and is also known for its verbosity. "Rapid prototyping" and "java" does not really mesh to begin with, or at
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The cultural commentary of how parts of the world are now moving at vastly different speeds to the point where we are almost seeing bona fide time-travel seems WAY more important to think about. How was this article an example of that?
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by Dewie 12y ago
The poll seems coloured/biased towards binge-drinking cultures. To say that someone who has a glass of beer with his dinner on most days is a "heavy drinker" sounds ridiculous.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I agree that people should do something they enjoy (doesn't need to be selfish). To some people, doing something you enjoy is selfish by definition. In what way it affects others (if at all) is a totally different matter.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think. With how widespread OO is now and in the last decades, how much it is taught and how important it is in a fair share of popular programming languages (or ev
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by Dewie 12y ago
The indent-backwards programmers must have felt very offended by that. :)
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> "I know personally I'm good enough to do magical, wizardly stuff with all the cool stuff that Swift gives me but you, well, you need some training wheels so we're gonna use Go for this project". It could also be tha
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This has sometimes worked for me when I'm trying to fall asleep. When I'm successful, it's like I'm letting go of the narrative of my own thoughts, and instead just seeing it unfold. Eventually, I start to feel as if the
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm thinking of putting a mattress beneath my desk/cubicle. I have a hard time falling asleep on command or taking naps at all. Maybe properly lying down instead of lying kind of uncomfortably on the floor will help with that. Thi
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I agree with you on that. "Either" suggests 'either this or that', to me. "Result" feels too generic. Any value can be called a 'result'. Though I don't know what the reasoning is on the naming o
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by Dewie 12y ago
It seems like that in some cultures people need clear excuses or pretences to be together with other people (atheists going to church looks like a pretense, i.e. the church and faith itself is not interesting, but the congregation is). Then

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