Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Haskell Platform feels a bit like Prelude; fine for people who are just using it for small self-teaching projects, but once you're supposed to do something "serious" then people seem to throw up their hands and say "No!
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by Dewie 12y ago
> It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, Um, you really don't think t
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by Dewie 12y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Abel Prize is considered by some as the Nobel Prize of mathematics .
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by Dewie 12y ago
I don't think he was looking for that kind of advice, Tony. But maybe it will help.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Java: write once, install JVM everywhere.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I want to like GO but a language that targets native development but still uses garbage collection just seems like an odd pairing to me. Why? I don't see what is weird about that combination. Garbage collection is usually somethin
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by Dewie 12y ago
You talk about Factor as if it (community, development, ecosystem, etc.) is practically dead. Is it?
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by Dewie 12y ago
You might as well say that any language takes as input The Universe and returns a new Universe (perhaps also adjusting for time, if the program gives output during the execution). See? Totally referentially transparent. But not interesting.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Right, I noticed that this thread was missing the standard reply from a suburbanite parent on how X is only for young, wealthy, single people with comparatively little life experience who have no responsibilities beyond their own selves, an
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The only thing they'll know about the person they are sharing with going in is that they are too cheap to take their own Uber ride. Oh the horror. I don't know if higher net-worth necessarily means that there aren't a g
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by Dewie 12y ago
"non-technical".
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by Dewie 12y ago
What is "unneccessary" about death metal? Fine if you don't like it any more, but I don't think there is anything wrong with listening to it. I can listen to music like that as background music, to get pumped up, and som
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess many might like to portray their lifestyle as exercising regularly, having deep and intellectual conversations while socializing (without alcohol, because it's a social lubricant ), learning foreign languages, and snacking on
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by Dewie 12y ago
I wonder if there is an overlap/relationship between being extroverted and being offensive?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> (which really isn't about Haskell; but more generally about being in the top 5% of programming) Attitudes like this is exactly what the this article seems to be concerned about, if we want to generalize beyond the Haskell communit
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by Dewie 12y ago
That isn't the premise. It is describing the type of audience that the article is addressing.
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by Dewie 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JFPePh6yM#t=15m05s Like I said; if he thinks it's part of some greater thing, who cares!
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by Dewie 12y ago
... and other age-groups. Finding something that makes you feel "enlightened" and makes you want to preach a bit can happen at any age.
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by Dewie 12y ago
They found purpose in enlisting for/during the Iraq war ? Well, whatever works for them, I guess.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Any grammar mistake negates any intellectual merit on the Internet...
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'll stress that I was agreeing with Pacabel, which might not be apparent from looking at the quote I chose to use in isolation.
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by Dewie 12y ago
There are some video games, maybe mostly competitive, which certainly do take a lot of mental effort, concentration and insight. Sometimes to the point that those gamers can become exhausted from playing those games. I guess the point i
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by Dewie 12y ago
Yeah. Considering TV and such in isolation is wrong. You can't just say "you wasted those 15 hours on TV" because, if we assume that that TV watching was wasteful in and of itself, you can't know what repercussions it wo
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by Dewie 12y ago
I've only seen "hipster" being used in a derogatory way on the Internet. But maybe this is some more HN-specific way that I haven't seen/before, which shows that I'm too inexperienced on here. :}
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by Dewie 12y ago
It is not a matter of what was said, it's a matter of the fact that it was said by a (presumably!) newcomer. I'm not a web-developer (or whatever you would classify PHP as), so I don't feel hit with the remark.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Really? Seriously!? Really? You're hard-hitting reply makes me feel filled with shame. I repent!
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The presence of some quirks isn't the issue. Of course every programming language has some. It is a very weird argument that often comes up when discussing programming languages - "Lang X is weird/stupid in some ways, bu
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by Dewie 12y ago
That's why I said "presumably", and only referring to posting on HN, specifically (i.e. could have had previous accounts). This is very subjective, but I find people who (again, presumably) haven't been involved in a c
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by Dewie 12y ago
What is a language, really? It's not really an implementation (necessarily); a language can have multiple implementations, in which you have to ask "which one is the language?" if they have subtly different behaviour. In or
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by Dewie 12y ago
And then there is C#. ( implication being that I almost never see anyone hating on C#, and yet C# is really used a lot, obviously. Hey, I was probably gonna have to add this part to the post as an edit, anyway; might as well get it out of t

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