Vektorweg

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by Vektorweg 12y ago
This article is more about the man than about what he does. There are lots of people who try to stop diseases and epidemics. The difference is, its Bill Gates and its posted on a tech-heavy news site.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I expected that. But I don't stop to say what needs to be said. Its another topic in how far down-votes are a good idea. Somehow, its a populist regulation of communicating non-conform thoughts.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
He shouldn't have made his software closed source. Too many business men followed him, leading to a vast amount of bullshit software no one can easily relay on to make something better. The free software culture slowly recovers. But we
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I'm talking about the free software culture.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Gates took wealth from many, many people and gave it to the few. It is the inversion of free software. You don't see how he hurt the society and how much more wealth could have been created without his decision. I don't throw ston
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Thats what the most crazy evil people in history said in their defense: in the end, it would have been peace -- the mass murdering dictators. There are better ways to achieve a better living for everyone. No one needs to suffer or to die fo
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I have one question: is it right to destroy a whole culture just to be the good guy afterwards?
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Yes I know ... Hacker News / YC isn't the place to make aggressive jokes about proprietary software ... :/
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
How about to try to cure the proprietary software disease?
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Actually, to get something in german's pirate party program, there must be a 66% majority. Hm. I never heard of blocks in the pirate party. Luckily, it seems that the core pirates are too liberal for that. Things could go wrong, but th
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Yes, but they would then know, that they are stubborn. Actually, there are so many individual people in the pirate party because they think the pirate party is doing what the individual does. Teaching them otherwise makes a difference. But
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I think that diversity wouldn't be the problem, when liquid feedback would work. But communication in the PP is really slow relative to their tech based democratic goals. The process to get a clear statement is too slow.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I wrote some animated SVG's in the past. It was often slow but good enough for most tasks. Quality was/is browser-dependent, but it worked well in overall. I'm not sure what people want to achieve. So, how well works Scalable
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Forking isn't worth much when the code is too difficult to change. Innovation depends also on extensibility.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
A troll you can argue with isn't a troll. Its just too easy to exclude people because of there non-conformism ...
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I guess no one understands sarcasm.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Inability to comprehend pointers Inability to determine the order of program execution I don't think that pointers or mutable variables are important, when you are a pure functional or logic programmer.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
The * or Kleene star describes a sequence of values from a specific set. A nice function name would be "many", like in Haskell's Parsec. In comparison between *, "Kleene_Star" and "many" is the meaning of
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Thats why I usually don't point this out. Some people could get infected or something.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
English is a common base. Not everyone understands Regex or enough about math. If you use Regex, some people might not be able to understand and change your Regex if necessary. Well, most of the time, no one else needs to understand it ...
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
I usually don't point this out, but: Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other. Like the issue with RegEx, its probably better to use nice English words in code to describe a problem solut
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Sorry, i haven't checked in the last days. I haven't seen exactly the same corresponding monad. But I would compare it with existing backtracking monads used for logic programming. My point is, that a backtracking monad in general
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
we like to party! Definitely. Love it.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Actually, the gold mine is monad transformer. There aren't many things you can do with monads (and the OP's one is nothing new). The real power is in the combination of monads.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Many Haskell books and tutorials tell what the "do" really does. People should read more.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Well. There is a magic contingent of how much humans can know at a time. And the amount of time to learn nearly as much as an expert know is five years of hard learning (or better: good teaching). It's just a guess. I think, experts&#x
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Theoretically, everything is related to each other. Practically, no.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Scala keeps features for imperative and functional programming, which is one category too many, because they solve the same problem just different. Thats how Scala is supposed to work. Its impossible to remove an approach.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Actually, the vast amount of features in C# isn't improving readability. But MS can't just throw out the bad half of features, which makes C# practically unimprovable. Scala has a similar problem.
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by Vektorweg 12y ago
Peyton Jones and some other nice people work at Microsoft to improve Haskell, which is IMHO the right tool.

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