Mesopropithecus

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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Not a fan of snarky comments generally, but this one made me laugh. And cry.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
The author's notion of OO is intentionally narrow. I don't know about Simula, but C++ is still reasonably close to Algol, compared to what Smalltalk and Self bring to the table (the author also mentions programming environments vs
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Oh absolutely - my critizism is about the decision to make them lazy by default.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
TIL that the Clojure rationale doesn't mention or motivate lazy sequences which are all over the place in Clojure. That laziness (in collection APIs, duh) was a major reason that I stopped using the language more after 1 or 2 years of
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
The raw margin (per unit) can be high even when the manufacturer is a poorly run company.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
ASUS Zenphone has a setting that lets you set a charging limit at 80, 90, or 100%.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Cool stuff. What's funny is that when learning Smalltalk, I got used to proportional fonts for programming, but only in a Smalltalk environment. I still find it odd to see that in another editor, and I have no idea why.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
In what way?
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Just wanted to mention that amending the Swiss constitution is near trivial, one could start there :).
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
My fist thought on reading the title and confirmed by looking at the article. Looks like they meant C.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Technology is one thing. I'm wondering why the crew weren't required to hand in the CVR right after the incident.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Hasn't helped me either, and I'm in all likelyhood a bit younger than most people's dads :). This is an anti pattern which good directly against the concept of "affordance."
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Given the car is lightweight while the fan generates such strong downforce, would it lift off if it was to actually flip over?
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
> [...] most modern, procedural languages (C++, Go, Python, Java, etc.) all very similar in terms of their basic concepts. [...] With Rust, though, one needs to learn entirely new ideas — things like lifetimes, ownership, [...] Maybe an
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Cool, thanks! This sticks out from PL syntax criticism that goes along the lines of "not enough curly braces" etc.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
As somebody who appreciates Lisp, I feel your pain. As somebody who also appreciates Rust, I'm curious, what is your baseline?
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
> Rust does require structuring programs in a "Rust way" to avoid fighting with things it can't prove to be safe. That was my concern that I had when I started learning the language. I think it is true, but I was surprised
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Thank you! I found that hard to dig up even on the linked page.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Not following, which 1 reliable power system do you mean?
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Unfortunately you are right.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Morality and legality are two different things. If your morality is at odds with Human Rights, maybe your country with DiFfErEnT mOraLiTy shouldn't be part of the UN. Last time I checked, Qatar was part of the UN.
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by Mesopropithecus 4y ago
Mobilization could be a sign that it's no longer about face but about ass.
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by Mesopropithecus 5y ago
Unfortunately the HN text input won't let me do this, but a funny starter for the article would have been this: '(Spanish flag)'[::-1] basically ''.join([chr(127466), chr(127480)]) vs. ''.join([chr(127466
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by Mesopropithecus 5y ago
And worse yet, imagine you're liable for not supporting each and every new web standard that there is 100%, right away. Just to illustrate how absurd such a ruling would have been.
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by Mesopropithecus 8y ago
What you mean is that C++ doesn't have a way to (easily) let you check whether a given reference is null or not. int* a = NULL; int& b = *a; compiles and runs just fine.