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by F-0X 7y ago
> this sounds like every "low level developer" ever, in that the opinions are completely removed from reality. it isn't 19<whatever>. Who cares what year it is. Fact is, with low level languages, you can write softwa
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by F-0X 7y ago
>I can't help but think of the 'Unix haters handbook' and groan The one true gripe they outlined is that the user interface requires some explanation before one can bootstrap their own knowledge. I'll defend the unix
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by F-0X 7y ago
Even so, you can write code imperatively in scheme, it's just a bit less natural. The keyword 'begin' has the same semantics as common lisp's 'progn', which allows imperative code to be written. I was careful t
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by F-0X 7y ago
>I just wish it wasn't implemented in Scheme (only because I am not familiar with the language It is a functional-first, small and clean variety of lisp. A much more beefed-up cousin is Racket, but some implementations of scheme (in
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by F-0X 7y ago
> Machine learning techniques are AI, as the term has been used in industry and academia for decades. As the poster said, most of them are just statistics; the term has been used in industry and academia for _centuries_. Predictive mode
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by F-0X 7y ago
Exactly. I would prefer they directed their budget somewhere other than graphics for this reason. The switch still plays most games at only 720p I believe, but this is more than sufficient for enjoyable games. I think 4k is a waste of memor
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by F-0X 7y ago
> And this is a dismissal of the idea that words have effects on people. No. Context is important. A manager, a human being with authority, is very different to a standard, unchanging message baked into a program. Your claim and compari
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by F-0X 7y ago
This seems to have a weird personification of a compiler/linter's error messages as a telling off, an insult, or a put-down. It's just a message to highlight what is wrong. Red doesn't equate to bad, red equates to &quot
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by F-0X 8y ago
Can I really be the only one who clicked the link and _enjoyed_ the plainness?
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by F-0X 8y ago
I need to get this gripe off my chest. I want types on the left, and not optional. I read the main function first. I saw that call to countOccurances, without an argument. I was confused how it was going to count occurances if it didn'
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by F-0X 8y ago
Several? Besides UI programming and not requiring users to install anything, what other advantages are there?
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by F-0X 8y ago
It's not a "forest of parens" any more than any language with C style syntax is, they're just in different places (the correct places) and there's no need to distinguish with braces (which you shouldn't need to
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by F-0X 8y ago
I cannot understand this "solution" of turning to machine-verified proofs. Coq, Isabelle, etc. invariably contain bugs. Even if they didn't, you can still run into hardware bugs. Computers are not a source of perfect computat
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by F-0X 8y ago
As far as Common Lisp goes, you could just install the Portacle distribution of emacs. This is essentially a fully-geared up CL IDE, including all the favourite emacs extensions for development (flycheck, company, paredit, magit, etc) and e
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by F-0X 8y ago
This is how I feel generally when working with codebases which make copious usage of type inference. I hate it, and think it is simply counter-productive in most cases. Though most other developers scoff and this and can't understand w
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by F-0X 8y ago
>even the most jaded systems programmer can see are not ideal, like the fact that types precede names in variable declarations, Honestly, I find it shocking anybody can hold this opinion. I hate that every single new language insists on
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by F-0X 8y ago
I don't find his arguments convincing at all. The appearance of supporting privacy is not mutually exclusive with invasive behaviour internally, and records - even if supposedly kept private - is still potentially vulnerable to being h
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by F-0X 8y ago
Absolutely, I think this would be a huge improvement. The ability to easily extract plaintext data locally would be a huge help with my personal organisation and planning.
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by F-0X 8y ago
>Static typing fans hardly ever acknowledge how difficult the types make it to read the code I think types make code much more understandable. I like them to be explicit so there's no mental overhead of thinking "what type migh