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by Volt 9y ago
>Engineers want to work on interesting problems, not to be slaves to mistakes they made years ago Maybe there should be a sense of responsibility. That seems to be lacking in this "engineering" climate.
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by Volt 9y ago
This is an interesting comment, since they consider the power of names as a selling point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543362
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by Volt 9y ago
Trust is neither binary nor universal.
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by Volt 9y ago
If Haskell is so simple, why is GHC so big? I see your claim repeated often on HN, but I think it's disingenuous.
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by Volt 9y ago
There are plenty of students and hobbyists here. So again, take it easy on the assumptions.
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by Volt 9y ago
The first line is the part I'm quoting, which is obviously what I'm addressing. He's making assumptions about the commenter that are completely unwarranted. So no, he doesn't speak for the people who use ST.
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by Volt 9y ago
>For a piece of software that enables your career, helps you to provide for yourself and/or family, that you probably utilize for thousands of hours over a given year? Speak for yourself.
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by Volt 9y ago
Do you think that TextMate fell by the wayside because of an unsustainable business model?
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by Volt 9y ago
The fact that there are these other languages with the same properties means that predictability isn't the real reason, right? It's that it also is sparse in its specification and easy to implement a compiler for.
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by Volt 9y ago
>You've got people bringing home $150-350k/yr plus every imaginable perk So now you've made this assumption. I get what you're saying, but you also have to understand that there are people willing to give up salary fo
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by Volt 9y ago
There's also Tumblr.
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by Volt 9y ago
No RSS feed?
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by Volt 9y ago
They're going after Matlab, Octave and R rather than Python.
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by Volt 9y ago
I thought this was about the present.
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by Volt 9y ago
The parent asked a legitimate question. Do you have an answer?
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by Volt 9y ago
>Its possible to have a site that is a mashup of /r/programming, /r/programmerhumor and /r/learnprogramming (and a few others) all on one site. The fact that these are three separate subs and not one kinda b
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by Volt 9y ago
Can't you just get your own bill then? I feel like so many people make this to be way more of a deal than it needs to be.
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by Volt 9y ago
It got tabs in Leopard (10.5).
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by Volt 9y ago
There was a paper a while back from someone working with MS on a Q typechecker in Prolog. Was this you?
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by Volt 9y ago
>To me modern programming is more the wider adoption of concepts borrowed from languages like Haskell: like pattern matching and safer null checks (like Maybe or Option types). It also includes easy to use coroutines or a good concurrenc
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by Volt 9y ago
"I don't want to download libboost and load its machine instructions every time I run a native C++ application".
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by Volt 9y ago
Exactly for the reason they said. The concern isn't that extensions are necessarily nefarious, but that people often want something in return for their work, which might be money by whatever means.
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by Volt 9y ago
>no need to act like you're the majority Is he making that assumption, or are you?
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by Volt 9y ago
>This is Apple's answer to their negligence to the Pro market No it isn't. >The iMac was already supposed to be a Pro machine. Not it wasn't. The iMac was always decidedly the consumer desktop. The pro machine actually
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by Volt 9y ago
Back when they actually had an R&D department.
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by Volt 9y ago
>Is it really that bad? No.
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by Volt 9y ago
How do you feel about this: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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by Volt 9y ago
It might say more about you that you think their 'setups' define them.
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by Volt 9y ago
I do know some of the history. I was just asking those questions as a challenge. Regarding the question of the other dialect, the parent used the term as a way of distancing Scheme from what I assume is the one true Lisp: Common Lisp. But t
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by Volt 9y ago
Yeah, that's what I was getting at.

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