Dr_tldr

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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It's the classic "not invented here" syndrome, but on the level of languages. It's not enough to be able to have strong types in Javascript, they want people to stop writing Javascript, scrap the entire ecosystem, create
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
JS runs natively on the web, it embraces multiple paradigms, it has a huge community, and you can get a job in almost any city on earth if you know how to use it. Haskell may be "better" as a language, (just as Esperanto may be su
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
True, but one way to push them to fix their engine and make it better is for them to feel pressure to not be left behind. People are going to code in the way that makes sense for them, and if one mainstream-enough implementation works way b
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Some of us are actually quite aware of what's going on in Russia. It's true that the US is also very corrupt, and its populace is easily led into believing it has enemies everywhere, but there are qualitative differences, here are
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
You rarely read HN, then. For most adults/businesses in developed countries, mobile is a secondary device, while PCs run everything from AAA games to filing systems to interfaces for medical equipment.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It's definitely not standard, the almost universal standard is using ES6 import/export. There are several other suspicious patterns here, I definitely wouldn't take these as canonical, or even best practices.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I think this is great advice for a beginner on their first project. Using React's localState for everything is a huge anti-pattern, but Redux adds cognitive overhead and boilerplate. Later, when you do a real project, Redux makes debug
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
So this is either a glorified bucket shop or yet another company with the brilliant idea of setting up an unregulated secondary market selling an incredibly wide variety of different ownership instruments that were never intended to be sold
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Uh, my whole point is that JS isn't that hard to learn, so why invest so much time trying to make it look like Java and write worse code in the process? Thanks for helping my argument, I'm glad we agree that you're a bad engi
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Sorry, but I think most people don't consider a badly designed service that disenfranchises customers arbitrarily and coincidentally saves HTC a bunch of money to be a "weird quirk." Plenty of other companies are able to both
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Chomsky can be a bit tiresome, but when talking about domestic US politics and media his descriptions fit the undisputed-but-largely-unknown record better than anyone else's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Is there a non-haskell resource on monads you could recommend? Anything that starts with "first, learn haskell" is probably not the easiest way, assertions from people who already know haskell notwithstanding.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
So it seems like the logical thing to do would be to create a study with better construct validity since it seems you don't think my evidence is any good and you definitely don't have any of your own. If we're both just throw
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
> Also, its very strange to see these concepts illustrated with Javascript. I imagine thats something like trying to learn Chinese using the roman alphabet. Not that it can't be done, but a lot of important details are necessarily m
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It's slightly better than the OAU, whose heads have historically been a who's who of corrupt and brutal dictators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairperson_of_the_African_Uni... But, on the whole, the AU is
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Have you noticed that you never speak in concrete terms, only pejorative adjectives? Saying you find something "laughable" and not "agreeable" is a feeling, not a refutation.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
You didn't present an argument, you just put my words in quotes and then made an appeal to an irrelevant authority. John Carmack doesn't do web apps, he does high-end 3D engines You couldn't pick a more different field and st
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
http://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing/ So we've got data plus my experience plus my team's experience in a large, very successful enterprise on one side, and we've got snark an
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I feel exactly the opposite. I'm continually amazed that Java devs have still not acclimated themselves to Javascript after all this time. If you notice that the style you're used to coding in is causing a lot of problems and that
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I still think it's a great story that's funny and well told while being respectful to the people involved. It's definitely indicative of a meaningful part of the culture that's very different from the western/americ
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
While speaking a common language usually (but not always) helps, being a US citizen is the way more important part of the story. Police in the United States are used to generally treating everyone (including foreigners) with impunity, while
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I'd just like to cosign your rebukes to both of us, they're very reasonable. Showing that you understand why I reacted how I did but that it wasn't productive is a totally legitimate call-out. I'm working on being a less
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I think the lesson is really a universal one: if you let your passion for your field overwhelm your moral judgement, the weakest and worst parts of your character will be immortalized along with your accomplishments. There's obviously
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
When someone engages in dehumanizing language towards a group of people and their baseless characterization is satirized for being reductive, you're saying that the problem is the irony , not the bigotry? Obviously it's your tree
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
So you're saying "it was already broken when I got here, who cares if I make it worse"? Sounds like a really selfish and unenlightened attitude.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Or it's that non-specialists with only a vague understanding of what you're doing don't know what you're talking about. I don't consider stem cell researchers to be lacking in empathy because some of the hyper-relig
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I know, it's almost as if they don't consider you the sole and undisputed arbiter of the limits of technology in creating social policy. What a bunch of psychopaths!
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It's explicitly not "opt-in" since the default setting is turned to "on" (tested with multiple accounts) without any prompting. Opt-out is better than nothing, but it's a pretty suspect move to say "oops,
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Hobbes whole point is that the state is created and maintained through a monopoly on the use of force primarily by means of force, aka violence, so that wouldn't make any sense in the context of what you said. Still, I'm glad you
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Only if you're so ignorant of how React works that you don't realize the JSX isn't HTML, it's syntactic sugar/an alias for the React.createElement method. It's no different than $(<p>) in jQuery, so unles

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