Yoric

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751.
by Yoric 2y ago
What kind of niche bugs are you speaking of? For what it's worth, Rust (and other languages of ML heritage) are really good at getting rid of huge categories of bugs, not just memory. Not all bugs, of course.
752.
by Yoric 2y ago
But that changed a long time ago. Now, the main bottleneck with Java is memory usage, but 20 years of JITing have turned Java into a language more than fast enough for most tasks. Won't beat Rust on most benchmarks, of course.
753.
by Yoric 2y ago
Fair enough.
754.
by Yoric 2y ago
Wikipaedia lists 24 countries amongst the allies. And the war in Europe was mostly piloted from the UK.
755.
by Yoric 2y ago
Could he be speaking of "the web"?
756.
by Yoric 2y ago
I'm in France. ~18 months ago, my entire team was laid off. I have lucked out on some previous jobs, so I have a very good resume. It took me a few months to find a new position, and that's after 100+ interviews and some serious g
757.
by Yoric 2y ago
Could have been me at some point in my career. One time, I interviewed while on burnout (general startup stress + workplace bullying). The position was a perfect match, but I was so exhausted that I couldn't write a simple loop. I was
758.
by Yoric 2y ago
I'm a EU citizen and I have no idea what you're talking about.
759.
by Yoric 3y ago
Well, null safety is a good start. But I seem to remember that the type-checker got confused rather easily with nested closures, for instance, or co/contra-variance.
760.
by Yoric 3y ago
Absolutely.
761.
by Yoric 3y ago
Well, as far as I can tell, in the big language shootout (which is still the only decent language benchmark I know, but if you have others, I'd be happy to read them), in all the individual benchmarks I've looked at Rust is either
762.
by Yoric 3y ago
Is Dart sound these days? When I tried it, it was pretty easy to trigger type errors at runtime.
763.
by Yoric 3y ago
Yeah, it's the kind of case where it's hard to decide between putting them in jail or giving them some kind of award. Possibly both.
764.
by Yoric 3y ago
Well, given the prices in Bay Area, perhaps they were simply priced away so far that it saved them several hours per day? Or perhaps it was closer to family?
765.
by Yoric 3y ago
1. From what I've read, nobody (outside of Jews and Christians) cared or realized that there was a difference between Jews and Christians. So I stand by my words of "considered". 2. Absolutely, but until Constantine, Christia
766.
by Yoric 3y ago
Well, to be fair, Christianity became a thing only when it got the Roman Emperor, which happened also as part of a war. Until then, it was considered just another Jewish sect, impossible to distinguish from a dozen other Jewish sects or a d
767.
by Yoric 3y ago
Galiloe's story is a bit more complicated than that. The Inquisition didn't have any problems with Galileo and his theories until he started insulting the pope in one of his books. Then the theories became a pretext to pressure hi
768.
by Yoric 3y ago
A compiled programming language for analog quantum computers.
769.
by Yoric 3y ago
Well, money can be used to power a service that (almost) nobody uses, or to power services that Mozilla hopes will be more useful. I, for one, had assumed that this service had been retired ages ago.
770.
by Yoric 3y ago
Always happy to see a new entry in simple-ish distributed programming! Could you summarize how this differs from, say, Erlang/Elixir?
771.
by Yoric 3y ago
You may be right. I haven't used OCaml or Haskell in a while, either. Last time I did concurrency in OCaml, there was no such thing as `let*` (you had to use Camlp4 to achieve anything like this), so it's entirely possible that th
772.
by Yoric 3y ago
I'm a staff engineer. My work is quite different from what I did as a senior. I spend much more time investigating/solving organizational problems, attempting to make knowledge available cross-teams, extracting requirements from e
773.
by Yoric 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've been one of the oldest developers in my companies since I started in the industry. I have no idea where old developers go, but it's starting to feel a bit lonely here.
774.
by Yoric 3y ago
I'm of two minds on this point. Uncolored async is simpler language design and works well for _most_ cases but provides way fewer guarantees than colored async, with the potential to break badly in some cases. For instance, there are m
775.
by Yoric 3y ago
Interesting analysis. I tend to agree on the complexity budget. That being said, even if we ignore wastefulness, have you tried async programming in OCaml or in Haskell? You immediately enter a CPS/monadic nightmare that makes programm
776.
by Yoric 3y ago
I quite enjoyed that movie, although the relation with Vidocq was a bit tangential. The tv series with Claude Brasseur had a bit more material :)
777.
by Yoric 3y ago
Makes sense.
778.
by Yoric 3y ago
It's part of the ML family, so it looks more like Elm (or OCaml, or Haskell, etc.) than PHP. If my memory serves, the way they enforce this is by generating the client alongside the server.
779.
by Yoric 3y ago
A long time ago, Mozilla had a prototype of this, but it never took up, in part because there was no standard for web payments. Then Brave claimed to be working on this, I don't know the status. I believe that Chrome had someone workin
780.
by Yoric 3y ago
In contrast, all of Europe has demonetized its old currencies (Deutschmark, French Francs, Italian Lira, etc.) when switching to Euros, and a few times before that. I've just looked it up and one Napoleon Franc is currently worth ~20€.

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