MadcapJake

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by MadcapJake 11y ago
Absolutely. The consumerization of higher education affects all aspects of collegiate life. Proper discourse is seen as inefficient, prone to upsetting the "workforce", or disagreeable to funding sources. Issues that would be
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
Found the blog post on their google drive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ma8baPpeS-MPgvaqybiPa-6b...
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
> Secondly, naming a function "json" requires the user read the code or the comments to figure out what it does, and blocks the user of the name for anything else that returns json. Suppose rather than a string you have a list
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
Functional programming languages use single-letter parameter names as a tool to help condense functions and allow easy parsing. This is largely due to their desire to emulate mathematical formulae. Interestingly, functional programming lead
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
Definitely. Plus, the hype that these ghost cities articles try to build feels really forced. How much emotion can you really capture with a picture of ordinary buildings...just without people walking by. I'm sure there are people th
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
To me it's almost cognitively dissonant to see a capitalized letter in the middle of a word. In written language grammars, we have only capitals at the beginnings of new sentences (new ideas), so my brain sees camelcase terms and want
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
The Haskell syntax thing, I believe, has to do with this: https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/121/
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
The tutorial page on their site is actually quite short and sweet like learnxinyminutes.
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by MadcapJake 11y ago
I don't really get all the docker hate/fear as-of-late. If you're a developer using docker, you should be reading the dockerfiles, reading any referenced shell scripts, and know what the command line arguments you're ent
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
This is really poorly explained and man those prices are ridiculous. A free personal site gets you only 10 comments!? There isn't even a list of features that I could compare to other commenting systems. Honestly, I've never rea
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
> So why not just say that on the main page? Because most people would not be intrigued by a site that said: Pharo Basically a modern smalltalk implementation Personally I think the site is really nice and explanatory. But I ag
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
This. Either KS needs a few more canned email responses or maybe a team that can actually write custom emails. I would think that with all the money, law, and slobbering fans involved you'd might want to have at least someone who can
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
That's the deprecated version and example that he specifically talks about in the article..
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
Freya Release Post: http://blog.elementary.io/post/116134677986/freya-is-here
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
Lots of info on using exercism.io at http://help.exercism.io/
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
There's no desktop app. There's a CLI, a collection of problems and their respective tests, and a website for some collaborative code review.
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
What about curl, wget, httpie? Or how about lynx or w3m? Plenty of people want to utilize CLIs and it's definitely beneficial when learning to program to get as much experience on a command line as possible.
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
less method: 1. ma 2. Reload browser 3. 'a less method with two marks: 1. ma 2. Reload browser 3. mb 4. 'a
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
> Why is it assumed that it is "unfair" for a company providing a free service to hoard the data you give to them? It's unfair because LinkedIn had built a precedent of openness and made no indication that this was a tem
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
Perl 6 has lots of syntactic breadth with all the sigils, twigils, operators, composers, etc. But I feel that, as with Ruby, all the sugar really helps after you've finally made it past the initial WHUUUT? phase. Just takes a bit l
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by MadcapJake 12y ago
Umm this is definitely not an attempt at a better but still-not functional Java. This is an attempt at a better Ruby. Not sure of how much they've really differentiated themselves (performance-wise or feature-wise).