Tichy

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by Tichy 13y ago
Sure if you prefer static typing then JS is not for you. Continuations seem to be rare among other languages you could choose. Personally I have only seem them in LISP, what else is out there? I would love to use LISP, but the libraries sim
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by Tichy 13y ago
I think most frameworks for JS are opinionated, I mean things like jQuery, Sencha, AngularJS, emberJS, or also various server side frameworks. Once you specialize on using one of them, you'll probably adopt their conventions. I myself
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by Tichy 13y ago
You know that you can just do foo.prototype = { dothis: function(){}, dothat: function(){} } In the beginning I wrote it more like foo.prototype.dothat = function(){} foo.prototype.dothis = function(){} Which was a lot more ugly.
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Does the Pi have WiFi, though? Mine doesn't, but perhaps I don't have the latest model.
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It would definitely depend on the kind of project (for me at least). I probably wouldn't recommend writing the controller for some medical device in JavaScript. My impression was that devices like the one here are more for tinker proje
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You can use objects in JS if you want to - but fair enough, different tastes and preferences.
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Sure if you write very low level stuff, C is probably more suitable. I wonder how much today's "embedded devices" still have in common with traditional embedded devices, though? If it is capable of running JavaScript, it prob
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by Tichy 13y ago
I think JS is more elegant than Python - just different tastes, I suppose. I find the crippled lambda unacceptable, and I don't like things like len() as a standalone function (in Python).
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Which ones, though?
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It's extremely simple - basically everything is a hash. It has full lambda, not just crippled lambda like Python. It's very fast (I think it is the fastest scripting language except for Lua, and getting faster because of the brows
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by Tichy 13y ago
You prefer C over JavaScript? Header files? Pointer arithmetic hell? Precompiler Macros? Manual Memory Management? Seriously? To each their own, though.
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by Tichy 13y ago
JavaScript is my favorite programming language. It's not perfect, but still. (Other languages I know: Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Scheme, C, Erlang).
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Thanks for taking the time to answer. I disagree with almost everything you said - I think most feminist live in an imaginary world and have no idea of the real world. But I'll leave it at that. Perhaps the army of gender studies stude
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Why wouldn't I feel discriminated? It's not my fault that I was born male. And I have only once gone to an expensive conference. I offered to help with organization and running it and therefore got in for free (paid own travel exp
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Exactly - so instead of giving people more money so that they can slack of and have kids, make them work even more and take away their kids.
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"The problem is, there are no good incentives to pay for you to have an 18+ year responsibility." If you think like that, don't have kids. I think people should have kids because they like having them around. If we go extinct
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by Tichy 13y ago
Try to imagine all the so far unseen flower arrangements. Men would arrange flowers in a different way.
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My suggestion is employers should receive money, not pay money.
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How - faking child births? If society wants more kids, it should pay up. The point about the childcare thing is: the solution is not providing parents to get rid of their kids so that they can work. The proper solution would be to enable pa
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by Tichy 13y ago
That's true, but the current pro-women-child-laws also have unintended consequences - mainly that women are a risk for employers. I'm not sure I am even in favor of such policies, but maybe at least certain vocal would get their w
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by Tichy 13y ago
"what you see is the higher the gender equality, the higher the birthrate" Yeah, I am sure in Bangladesh and Nigeria they have great gender equality. Have more children, we have the childcare also seems like a stupid proposition.
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Isn't it mostly the case that people's employers pay for conferences? How many people pay out of their own pocket?
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The things the mention sound to me just like the standard things cryptographer worry about on a daily basis. I am not sure there is anything new there.
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Usually there is 0% of me at most conferences, so shouldn't I be paid some money to correct that bias?
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I know what attracts me about other people, and by analogy I can also imagine (somewhat) how gay people feel. I find it harder to imagine why I'd rather have a vagina and boobs than a penis. Seems fair to ask people who feel like that
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by Tichy 13y ago
We seem to have maxed out HN's nesting limit, it takes hours for the reply button to become available... Thanks for discussing, it is actually very difficult to discuss feminism in the real world. Few feminists are willing to expose th
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Let's see - "women only" - check...
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It's quite common to give women free entrance to nightclubs, too. Well nobody will admit the real reason "we" want more women in tech. Let's just say it makes for a better atmosphere and more "attractive" work
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Another question, since I don't personally know any transgender persons: if gender is just a mindset, what drives them to want another biological sex? Isn't the feminist dogma that biological sex is basically irrelevant and only g
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"you can absolutely choose your gender" I've been reading the intro of the book you recommended. Frankly, that gender discussion seems extremely weird and trite. Why don't you just behave the way you like to, rather than

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