Havvy

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by Havvy 12y ago
The `new` is used at the call site while invisible at the function declaration.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Corporatism. There are laws that prevent true capitalistic competition from happening.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Being spied on by your own country is worse than being spied on by other countries. Your own country doesn't have another country between you and it to protect you. Also, other countries will look at the USA and say 'we can do it
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by Havvy 12y ago
Flow doesn't have any semantic changes from JS, only semantic restrictions. For anything that is not types, Flow defers to JS. Dart defers to it's own specification.
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by Havvy 12y ago
But `new` is a bad part. Just an optimized bad part... You could replace every usage of it with `var instance = Object.create(Ctor.prototype);` (and change every `this` to `instance` in your code), and actually explicitly return `instance`
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by Havvy 12y ago
There's Sweet.js if you want macros.
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by Havvy 12y ago
You really should not be installing dependencies for anything globally. Instead, add them as dev-dependencies and call them in the package.json `scripts` property. The only npm package you really need installed globally is npm itself, and y
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by Havvy 12y ago
Yes, but Rust is on the final stretch to 1.0 with a finite set of features to be implemented before release. So soon we can get enterprise to look at it.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Yes. I was tired when I wrote that.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Well, there's "shim"....
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by Havvy 12y ago
Yeah, but that falls under epediaman's "Stop over-engineering. YAGNI!" quote. If you want the benefits of `new` without exposing your interface, you should totally wrap it. But if you're going to have boilerplate like th
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by Havvy 12y ago
It's not async functions, it's first class functions. Having multiple ways of calling a function doesn't compose. I have enough experience to know where the foot guns are at, but I don't like writing code that has foot g
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by Havvy 12y ago
A linter to catch the bugs and then go back and fix them is more work than just making it not possible to have the bug exist. Also, the lint you are talking about is based on a typographic convention that you could easily get wrong. For ins
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by Havvy 12y ago
`new Foo` will always outperform `Object.create(FooProto)` If I create an interpreter that changes `new Foo` to `$new(Foo)` where $new is a JS function that uses Object.create to do what the `new` operator does in spec (e.g., treat it as sy
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by Havvy 12y ago
I also give my thanks. This was very helpful for me at the beginning of the year.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Is there any chance the code snippets translated to other languages, such as Rust (when it hits 1.0) & JavaScript? I saw that the Command pattern has JS snippets and Prototype talks about JS, but most patterns don't seem to talk ab
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by Havvy 12y ago
So, how does this compare to Clojurescript's Mori?
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by Havvy 12y ago
I read Thorough in high school. So it's not that atypical...
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by Havvy 12y ago
Sure, but there's no reason for a Windows enhancement to be framed as a Linux vs. Windows thing, except as antagonistic clickbait. As somebody who uses both Windows and Linux, I'm not sad that Windows is becoming more usable. I&#x
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by Havvy 12y ago
Each lisp varies dramatically in its semantics. Just because emacs is written in e-lisp does not mean it has first class language support for every other lisp. Would you say that vim has first class support for every language with block &am
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by Havvy 12y ago
Pot is only decriminalized for people above a certain age, probably 18. It's still illegal for teenagers.
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by Havvy 12y ago
On IRC, somebody once put a bug bounty of 2BTC for a geometric problem. I fixed the bug in two hours (including the time it took to look up the geometry formulas...) and did receive the bitcoin. This was at the time that Bitcoin was trendin
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by Havvy 12y ago
To be honest, he's not looking for privacy for this statement. He's looking for exactly the opposite, so using the thing that doesn't care for privacy doesn't matter for this instance.
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by Havvy 12y ago
What does this give you over using NixOS?
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by Havvy 12y ago
Your response is completely off the mark because in many ways "open source" is as much a community as it is a philosophy. Programming is as much a social activity as it is a technical one. You can release open source works, but if
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by Havvy 12y ago
Rust 1.0 is supposed to be somewhat minimal, so things like custom operators and monadic syntax are out scope since they can be bolted on in a backwards-incompatible way in future versions. Active patterns would probably also fall under thi
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by Havvy 12y ago
Anarchy won't cause an apocalypse, just a change in the structure of the ruling class as a new ruling structure is created. also on the extra terrestrial influence side, there's direct hits by gamma rays that could wipe out Earth
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by Havvy 12y ago
0.4% from solar is helping by 0.4%. That's 1/250th less burning of fossil fuels than if it wasn't there.
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by Havvy 12y ago
That'd be illegal under US gov't. regulations.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Overall good article and food for thought, but the last paragraph is a non-sequiter compared to the paragraphs that came before it.

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