SaxonRobber

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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
TLDR; I’d sooner dig up SML’s grave than be caught near a Lisp.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
I know C++ is a vile, but Bjarne only had the best intentions. Cut him some slack!
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Too bad the other dinosaurs didn’t catch on until it was too late and they died. (Or became zombies)
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
c
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Most developers aren’t software engineers, they are coders who just jump on the hottest JS trend or are utterly content with Enterprise Java mediocrity. Their entire lens is warped by a narrow view of “coding” and are incapable of programm
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Because Rob Pike is a hack
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Living in a rural or suburban area doesn’t mean you have a car. There are plenty of poor people who don’t own one or have limited access and must share. At the Indian reserve by where I grew up almost no one had a car, they had to walk an
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
There are food deserts, they are the places where residents will spend hours taking public transit just to go to the grocery store because they are too poor to own a car. This fucks with your life, it will be a challenge to get to the store
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Also a botnet
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Republican bobble heads gave up reason, along with morality and honesty, a long long time ago.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Iran probably received permission from Iraq. They have a strong influence on the country al all levels.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Winning is bad for business anyway.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Because it’s become common practice to add a pound of sugar and cream for whatever reason. Probably worse than a soda after doing that.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Smartphone apps and social media are not pushing humanity forward. They are huge productivity drain if anything and cause more problems than they solve.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Because CPython is the reference implementation.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
100-page ML book for a brisk tour Deep Learning (Goodfellow) Introduction to Statistical Learning
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
No point unless you have an interest in numerical linear algebra. The people who write the foundational Fortran/C/C++ libraries are experts in numerical analysis which is another rabbit hole. If you want to write your own for fun
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
That’s the culture. The risk takers just need to go south for more opportunities anyway, why stay in Canada?
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Part of the trouble with Haskell is the prevalence of syntactic sugar. It is incredibly easy to make code that is tiny and indecipherable because it relies upon functions which are compositions of higher-ordered functions with monads and ob
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Lambdas shouldn’t be considered clever. What did these people learn in school?
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
MIT open courseware has a course on Performance Engineering which details some of the types of low level optimizations that can be done. It requires a lot of measuring and problem specific solutions.
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by SaxonRobber 7y ago
Percentages are misleading, what matters is the actual time it takes. Even small gains will have an effect as you increase the traffic and add additional stages to the system. Small delays accumulate and can have a surprising effect on qu