Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Sounds good to me.
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by Dewie 12y ago
To me, the idea of a low-level[1] language with S-expression syntax seems appealing because it is both pretty fundamental machine-wise, and syntax-wise. Why not have a Lispy language as an underlying fundament? The syntax is both about&#x
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by Dewie 12y ago
Conventional music albums were known for only giving a small percentage of its sale value (minus retail and such, of course) to the actual artists. There didn't seem to be much fuss around that. But now that artists are getting a raw d
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by Dewie 12y ago
The upvotes and downvotes on this post has been a true roller coaster. EDIT: someone is fast on the vote-trigger; hello, friend. ;)
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by Dewie 12y ago
Who's talking about code style ? Some Go users like to talk about Go as if anyone who doesn't like it just dosn't "get it", or that they obviously don't appreciate Getting Things Done.
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by Dewie 12y ago
"Go philosophy" apparently being an absolutist and unwavering belief in One True Way To Actually Get Stuff Done. It's surprising that a philosophy that tries to promote simplicity also manages to come across as so elitist at
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by Dewie 12y ago
> , but it is a fundamental way of how social humans form opinions. Wow, that's amazing: people form opinions in part based on how much they respect/trust someone. Consider my cynical views totally and irreversibly changed. The
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Not to take away from an obviously intelligent individual. It's interesting to observe how programmers and other similar intellectual workers prostrate themselves in their own specific way when referring to someone of high statu
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess this is where the anti-FP people forget their staunch scepticism for a second because a respected imperative programmer uses an FP language? Regular functional programmers haven't been able to change their view, but I wouldn&#x
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I cant work out if Formula E with completely autonomous cars would be interesting, or really boring... Well it can't get any more boring than it already is.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Hi. Rust core here. I for one am ready for my daily Rust PR programming.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Articles like this are so aggravating to read[1]. I want to skim and get to the point where they actually start to discuss the actual idea, so that I can determine if it's worth it to me to read it. But they want to build up to it as i
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Rust is probably not going to be a language that you will script in. No; you have D for that. EDIT: Seriously, for the grumpy down voter: I've seen quite a few programmers write that they use D even for things that are normally c
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Personally, I think that it's nice to have an ever-decreasing number of languages to support, preferably English. The first part of that is because it's annoying enough to unambiguously parse one human language much less doze
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I do realize that there are more countries like this, "More"? I wouldn't be surprised if it was most .
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by Dewie 12y ago
According to that definition of memory leak, I guess you can call anything that doesn't eagerly free memory for memory leak . And the term gets quite weak and vague in that case.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Because Mr. Brainiac isn't skilled at managing his time.
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by Dewie 12y ago
What do they think about math majors? It's similarly "soft" in that it is a study of entirely intangible and abstract concepts - nothing to do with manly machinery or contraptions at all. What do they think about electrical e
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by Dewie 12y ago
> It's hostile, unprofessional, and unnecessary. Well I guess you do what's normal when you think someone is being unprofessional: stop buying their products and stop doing business with them. Oh wait...
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by Dewie 12y ago
It wouldn't be properly UNIX-like without randomly omitting vowels.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess I should feel for these people since I'm in an academic slump myself - though not any equivalent of MIT or anything. But what do you expect when you willingly play in the big leagues of nerd status jockeying? If your self-worth
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Here's a related thought experiment: could ever increasing divorce rates be explained similarly by risk? There is much less risk of divorcing now, women are about as financially independent as men, and it could be argued there is
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by Dewie 12y ago
If only the poor stopped being so stupid and irresponsible, maybe they could pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
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by Dewie 12y ago
:)
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by Dewie 12y ago
You're saying that there aren't any photo sharing startups in that backwards backcountry? Gosh darn.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> You may dislike passenger cars (and I detect more than a faint whiff of Puritanism around that whole attitude, but that's a discussion for another day), Is this how Americans insinuate that they think someone is too old-fashioned
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'd rather keep any personal journal/diary offline. Even if Web technology was trustworthy in itself, I'd have to learn about exactly what is safe to do in a browser, if I trust the website itself and if I trust the person&#x
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Actually what he's arguing (rightly) is that burnout is harmful. That's not the same as "programmer passion". What I've been wondering about lately, though, is if what looks like passion can all of a sudden tur
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> A PhD in computer science is a strong advantage. Figures.
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> Operating system kernels would be an example of that: The best test for a *nix OS kernel is, if it can run a shell. You need all the essential syscalls to do something sensible and if any of the required parts doesn't work the who

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