MustardTiger

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by MustardTiger 11y ago
>It would report the error in foo() when foo() is invoked That's "dynamic typing". >Only code paths that actually get executed are dynamically checked. This checks all code paths in the method. Ok, so it is extended dyn
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>What you say is true, though it would be a sad day when the future of what Canadians want Canada to be is limited by the financial pressure of another country. That day happened like 50 years ago and has been that way ever since. As mu
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by MustardTiger 11y ago
>Hummingbird would report one. When? >However, what it gives you in return is the ability to handle functions that don't even exist at program startup and are instead defined at runtime later in the program's execution throu
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This isn't static type checking though, if it happens at run time then it is by definition dynamic. And these languages already do that. What problem is this solving? I'll already get a runtime error now, how is this runtime er
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Facts don't really care if you doubt them or not. Please, answer the question. What makes that the best thing?
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by MustardTiger 11y ago
What makes that the best thing? All available evidence suggests it is not a relevant thing at all, since home schooled children are indistinguishable in social skills to regular schooled children. The forced social experience of a typical
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>Actually, much better approach is to shut the fsck up and write something useful No, it really isn't. What is the goal there? To prove you can use a general purpose language to write software? There's tons of software alrea
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by MustardTiger 11y ago
I too like to punish myself in a futile attempt to spite people who don't even know I exist, much less that I am trying to spite them. That'll teach them to like something!
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I don't know how I could make it any clearer than what you quoted. What do you think "But the phenomenon is real and the prediction it makes is reproducible, as Dehnadi showed in a meta-analysis in his thesis" means? Or &qu
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>Is compilation speed really an issue given the use cases for Go? Yes, I find compilation speed to be one of the most important things. But it is not a selling point for go. The go compiler is not very fast, and speed is not an accepta
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I did not ask you to explain anything. I said your explanation is not representative of what is happening. And the clear evidence is the paper in question. Read the "retraction". They do not suggest the bimodal distribution is
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>The problem is that Fizzbuzz and string reversing are a kind of trick questions. They are the exact opposite. They are practical, very simple, introductory questions. Fizzbuzz is literally "do you know what a loop and a condition
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Ironic, since the "people clinging to it" seem to have read and understood the retraction and you seem to be repeating a deliberately misleading headline. The two humps are still there, the retraction was only of the claimed inna
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>By this rhetorical implication, you're saying that not only are current demographics in tech (majority male, white, upper middle class) That isn't even the current demographic. Indian and Chinese people are more disproportion
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>First, one can dispute “programming ability is distributed in two humps” without implying that “everyone can program.” Yes, but people are disputing “programming ability is distributed in two humps” despite there being clear evidence of
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>The title seems to intentionally misrepresent the retraction to push an agenda (or the author has some issues with basic logic) Almost certainly the former. Notice the dismissal of scientific evidence because they dislike the implicati