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by _bxg1 6y ago
What a narrow-minded view. The problem is not that null exists, it's that many statically-typed languages don't let you distinguish nullable from non-nullable variables. In the ones that do, null is functionally equivalent to Mayb
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think what you're thinking of is the JavaScript JIT situation. A JIT compiles and executes arbitrary, new, native code at runtime. A regular interpreter doesn't create native code.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
unsafe { } blocks already exist, and in fact it looks like these have to go inside of them. Rust can do unsafe things, it just goes to great lengths to empower you to avoid accidentally doing unsafe things. It also forces you to label all
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> proprietary, locked down CPU Is it somehow more proprietary and locked-down than the Intel ones?
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Ask HN: Is “Trustwave” Legitimate?
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a) Any static type system has things that it can't express elegantly or maybe at all. In my experience, the more "meta" your project is, the more you're going to run up against these bounds. So it makes sense that this c
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by _bxg1 6y ago
At the risk of stretching the metaphor, what I'm talking about are bearings that separate the wheel from the rest of the car. Maybe you have a thin, outward-facing server that does nothing but authenticate, validate, and sanitize input
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I don't know if you realize how massive the React user-base is at this point. That would be like saying, "how do you know they won't determine at some point python is not sustainable and in two years you have to learn some ot
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The point is that it's not my problem. Those things, together, comprise "React" as far as my application is concerned. React being a huge project which millions of dollars have been poured into, and which billions of dollars
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think there's some truth to this, but the same is true in, say, the Java world where you're almost not even writing things in Java-the-language, you're writing things in Spring. That said, it's probably more true in th
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The point remains, though, that I avoided an unnecessary dependency. I copied that function once and never needed to mess with it again, because it was 15 lines and I could verify personally that it did what it needed to do. For contrast, w
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yeah, I wondered if it was something like that. Sounds like input is sanitized before it even touches that system. Which begs an interesting train of thought: could we make systems that last longer by doing a better job of isolating pieces
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> The primary reason for this is because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing. Hello. I'm a JavaScript programmer who cut my teeth on Java twelve years ago, followed by C++ two years later and throughout the
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> I’m just not inclined to agree that civil society can’t continue to run on millions of lines of COBOL for another 60 years. It certainly can. > Java 8 and Python 2 on the other hand are a far more serious threat. When systems can’t
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by _bxg1 6y ago
How long until Daft Punk incorporates some musical Tesla coils in a live show? Update: somebody beat them to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psoLXEBmfRg
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There's ReasonML, which compiles to JS and seems intended for production
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I most certainly don't. I've just come to believe CNN is nearly as bad.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
During the midterms we were watching the live vote tallying on CNN, and at one point one of the hosts accidentally said "we" when referring to the Democrats. It was at that point I stopped taking CNN seriously.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Gangs breed in places where basic needs aren't being met. Poverty and economic despair drive people both to join gangs and to buy from them. A big part of this movement involves re-allocating the enormous budgets that many of these pol
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The rest of the original title was, "[and] Invest in Proven Community-led Public Safety". That part may be even more interesting, at least on the surface. I'm really curious what it means. Minneapolis could become a testbed f
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a) I'm incredibly happy to see that the masses still have a voice b) I'm not positive this is the right solution, but it could be, and it will be fascinating to see how it plays out and whether it's something that could work
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I would imagine there's some cultural overlap between HN, Usenet, and subreddits about Magic and technical subjects
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Right, but nobody's going to say any of those in a blog post. If you're going to the trouble to write a blog post you're probably making a statement . Even if it's ill-informed. There's another dimension to this to
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I've never seen it outside of HN personally
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From personal experience, including reading a lot of HN, I think programmers as a species are especially biased towards putting forth opinions in the hopes of being validated for our experience or intelligence, even when we know we don&#x27
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Its goal was to create a sustainable alternative to ads, not just block them. I haven't been keeping up with it so I don't know how successful that's been, but it's a noble task that nobody else is really working on.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> UPDATE, 1:30pm: The sound is intentional.
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I honestly think this is awesome and beautiful, though I might feel differently if I lived nearby just because of how relentless it is. I remember years ago I had the idea that if you could design construction equipment to rotate/oscil
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> Doesn't cost you anything if those ones don't stick. This sounds like the central problem, to me.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Wow this is great. Beyond the titular map, it's also just a really good-sized collection of videos of incidents (bigger than any other collection I've seen so far). Good job.

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