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by Zababa 5y ago
My point is that functional languages have all these features, even if some are found in non-functional languages these days. Even functional langauges themselves are often not only functional. You can do OO in Scala, imperative and OO in O
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by Zababa 5y ago
To me they don't sound like audiophiles. The keyboard in this article is $365. Audiophiles can put $10 000 in a cable. A cheap keyboard is like $20, my current keyboard is around $100. If you map it to something like car prices, cheap
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Which is consistent with my own personal observation that fans of purely functional languages tend to dislike Go, for the most part.) It's not only your personal observation (though I would remove the "purely" from &quot
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by Zababa 5y ago
This is a wild guess, but maybe the Search function could be a bit better than expected if it was a bit smarter about allocation size than the regular version you posted. From what I understand, the initial capacity of slices is 0, which wo
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by Zababa 5y ago
> I would like to understand a bit more about where a lot of the Go criticism comes from. Of course some amount of it comes from direct frustrations people have with the language design, but I suspect that doesn't account for all of
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by Zababa 5y ago
Sounds like administration is made of replaceable cogs that are projecting.
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by Zababa 5y ago
How many times this "valid point" has been made since the beginning of the year? Saying it more won't improve the situation.
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by Zababa 5y ago
But that's not my point, 4chan has clear rules that are not about illegal content: https://4chan.org/rules . There are moderators/janitors enforcing thoses rules and a report system. The first rule is: "1. You
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Or Christopher "moot" Poole, who created 4-chan. 4chan has never been about free speech, it had rules since the beginning which are constantly enforced.
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by Zababa 5y ago
I don't really like this quote. Lots of smart people often explain that they ask "stupid" questions and that it's important to get over your shame of being stupid. Questions change you from having a passive role to an ac
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by Zababa 5y ago
My whole point is that sometimes intermediate steps don't have good names. I often have to apply multiple transformations to a collection, but only the first and last step have a name because the intermediate steps are just that. &quot
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by Zababa 5y ago
Which ones? I'm not aware of any that has only checked exceptions, at least in the mainstream ones.
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Maybe France doesn't have enough of a stockpile to destroy all humanity 8x over, but not sure how much that changes the game theory. I think we currently have 2 submarines with 150 nukes each around the world. Probably not enough
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by Zababa 5y ago
Not every step has a meaningful name. And usually you already have the name of the function. For example: let batter = mix(water, flour) let saltedBatter = add(salt, batter) let risenSaltedBatter = letToRise(saltedBatter)
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Also, how people are able to practice and improve at something, like practicing guitar and eventually being able to hit every note, or being able to never leave their wallet behind, or stopping at every stop sign and never forgetting w
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by Zababa 5y ago
> I don't see why I would ever want to do the first one in real life, when exceptions exist. Exceptions usually aren't typechecked.
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Reduce already is a map and filter and one, why do you need to loop it 3 times? Because being explicit about intent is important. Map means "transforming each element of the collection", filter means "keeping only some e
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by Zababa 5y ago
Why would they read the warning label on the product page then?
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by Zababa 5y ago
> "Today there are three men for every four women with degrees. Put simply, there aren’t enough highly educated men to go around." I'll admit that I find it disturbing that having 3 men with degrees for 4 women with degree
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by Zababa 5y ago
As with many articles like that, it's missing a "in rats" at the end of the title.
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by Zababa 5y ago
I didn't know about all that backstory, thanks for sharing that. Another reason to not use it.
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by Zababa 5y ago
It already works, I can play Elden Ring online with Easy Anti Cheat working. Worked since day 2 I think.
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by Zababa 5y ago
No, they're not. Fextralife especially is filled with information that's often wrong or misleading.
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by Zababa 5y ago
Sharing a project with the world and taking time to document it reeks of privilege? I really can't understand your reasoning.
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by Zababa 5y ago
> I'm afraid a lot of people have no clue. Their only idea is action movies and FPS games. The horrors of war is like half of the history classes. It's hard to miss.
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by Zababa 5y ago
> to avoid Ken Thompson attacks I was always under the impression that the "message" of Reflections on trusting trust was that you have to trust someone at some point.
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by Zababa 5y ago
16,085 respondents? That is not a lot. I don't know how many people use JavaScript in general, but that's probably at least 1 000 times that.
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by Zababa 5y ago
A good example of ASCII diagrams: https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore
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by Zababa 5y ago
I don't understand why this is surprising.
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by Zababa 5y ago
Aren't video games companies a good example of tech-as-a-cost-center companies? Salaries are often not great, working hours terrible.

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