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by Pacabel 12y ago
This really depends on where you set the baseline standard. You may see the worst-performing variants of a given model as defining the baseline, with some being above the baseline. But it's perfectly legitimate to define the baseline a
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The expectation is that a 2014 model will perform at least as well, if not better than, a predecessor model from 2013. That's a perfectly reasonable expectation to hold, as well. One really shouldn't end up worse off (for whatever
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I think that's backing up the point he's making, though. When considering the big picture, tiling window managers are quite minor and relatively infrequently used. Having a small amount of influence within a rather obscure field e
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Realistically, I don't think that knowing Haskell really would benefit most programmers, especially those working on typical, everyday software systems. There are some relatively niche situations where it might be a good choice, but th
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't see much "hatred" there at all. He's merely pointing out the very real fact that Haskell's adoption is quite limited, and the fact that there really isn't much truly critical software written using it,
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's a shame to see that comment getting modded down. It's absolutely valid and correct. The three examples given in that other comment are pretty much unknown. xmonad might be a slightly better example, but it's still pretty
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think you might be overestimating the actual usage of Clojure. It's still very much a niche language. Everything I've observed suggests that Scala has a far greater rate of adoption than Clojure, and Scala's usage is still
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That isn't really the case at all. Java (the language) is relatively small and simple. Java code can be written quite easily without an IDE. In fact, that's how it was done for many years by most Java developers, before Eclipse, N
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. Maybe that exact situation won't often arise, but in other languages like C++, Java and C# it's not at all uncommon to have nested collections.
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I don't think we can really consider it to be "stabilizing" when there are relatively significant and breaking changes like this still going on. It may be headed in the direction of stability, but that's quite different
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Like we always have to ask when somebody says what you have, "What's the alternative?" Whatever it is, it'll need to be very portable (well beyond just Linux, OS X and Windows), and it'll presumably need a free impl
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's fine that you don't care about this information. But that in no way means that others hold the same view as you. There are people and organizations paying significantly more each month than you are, and they're very like
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by Pacabel 12y ago
There's no bravery, or merely even resilience, involved with listening to and learning from criticism of one's product. Sometimes ideas are just plain bad. Sometimes implementation are just plain bad. If somebody wishes to express
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think that anyone is claiming that GitHub "owes" the community the details. While this may have been an "internal company matter" initially, it did eventually become very public. There has already been a hug
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by Pacabel 12y ago
While I suppose this may be a "new way" of debugging for the author of this article, it's hardly a new technique. strace, trace, truss and similar tools have been around for decades now. They're the kind of tools that ma
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Your description of TDD is a pretty blatant misrepresentation of the actual philosophy and techniques. Furthermore, I think that you're ignoring that TDD tries to be a practical solution to certain real-world problems. This means that
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by Pacabel 13y ago
One big advantage that Go currently has over Rust is much greater stability, in terms of language and standard library changes. This means that Go is far more predictable than Rust currently is for anyone who wants to use it seriously, espe
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I think there's a difference between sharing ideas and sharing code. An idea or concept on its own can't really do much, at least until it's put into practice somehow. The potential for harm is quite minimal, if it even exist
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I really do not know. I prefer not to make specific guesses, even lower-bound estimates, when there is insufficient information available.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Oh, I see. Some people here misinterpreted what I wrote to suggest that Python isn't widely used. Clearly that's not what I meant. I just dislike how melling basically pulled a number out of his ass, and then used it as "evid
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Where exactly do you get this "tens of thousands" number from?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The Windows taskbar and start menu allow for certain levels of usability and efficiency. The approaches offered by newer systems like Unity, GNOME Shell, and Windows 8 all fall well, well below these levels set by the earlier approaches, ho
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I don't think that's very good reasoning. Bad software is bad software regardless of who has funded it, who has committed code to it, or who has written its documentation. One does not have to be a contributor to that software in
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Even if there's no publically-known way of using a particular security vulnerability to get access to private keys, how are we to be sure that somebody (perhaps malicious) didn't find a way and are just keeping it a secret?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I think that C++ is so useful in practice because it gives you most of each of those, rather than just some of two (or even just one) of them. Programs written in C++ aren't necessarily the fastest out there, but they're usually p
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's a shame to see that comment has been downvoted. That's a quote directly from the bottom-right corner of the Rust website itself! Rust is promising, without a doubt. But it's not yet truly usable in the same sense that C,
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I'm curious how many of those installations actually see much use, especially on an ongoing basis. I know several people who have all sorts of browsers installed on their Android devices, but only end up using one of them frequently. T
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Promises can be encouraging, but they really do us no good in practice. And it's practice that truly matters. We really need at least a stable (in terms of the language and its standard libraries) of Rust before it can even be consider
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They are generally better than nothing, however. And they do generally offer better performance, better predictability, an a simpler implementation than other approaches to memory management and garbage collection. Maybe a language like Rus
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I think you might be missing the overarching issue here. It isn't so much about the specifics of gay marriage, or Eich's donation, or him losing his job because of his opinions. The real issue is hypocrisy, contradiction and doubl

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