ab5tract

20 ms·

241.
by ab5tract 10y ago
To clarify, it isn't being used as a set literal. It's a list passed to an operator that happily coerces your lists to sets. Allomorphs are tricky things, but I think it was the right decision to treat them separately in collectio
242.
by ab5tract 10y ago
I've never used a Unicode operators myself and there are no requirements to use Unicode characters. Every Unicode operator has a "Texas" counterpart in 100% ASCII. This was mentioned in the OP. I think you are mistaking `<
243.
by ab5tract 10y ago
What are your expectations for reliable generalization? What were you expecting to work, in what way, that didn't work as you expected?
244.
by ab5tract 10y ago
I heard you like charting frameworks, so I wrapped your charting framework in a charting framework!
245.
by ab5tract 10y ago
No, it really doesn't. We used to distinguish between 'neoconservative' and 'neoliberal', but the only line in the sand between them was one was from the Republican party and the other was from the Democratic party.
246.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Take that, physics!
247.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Any idea how long ECMAScript 6 has been in development? Well, it used to be called ECMAScript 4 and it was started in 1999, a whole year before Perl 6. People use this as a negative all the time, or as "the reason" it hasn't
248.
by ab5tract 10y ago
I'm sorry, but scientists rarely talk about dark anything as if it is an unknown. They use it all of the time as a central component of their explanations. It's as baseless as the ether of the 19th century and as ubiquitous in its
249.
by ab5tract 10y ago
"→ And unfortunately, what this 'help' entails is the highly toxic systemd community - and I use 'community' in the loosest sense, because it really works out to being a sort of cult, spearheaded by a specific indiv
250.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Which law are you referring to? This law contains, in plain language, assertions that laws enacted to encourage repair are considered "public good"? I'll believe it when you post a link. What if there was a large company, Rom
251.
by ab5tract 10y ago
I'm sorry, but how do you develop a worldview where "public good" is determined via corporate lawsuits? Is it simply in the intention of the law? Because from what I can see of the history of ISDS, harming a companies bottom
252.
by ab5tract 10y ago
You have thrown up a false equivalency and are pursuing it in an odd manner. What I would prefer is that there is absolutely zero mechanisms for a corporation to sue a government over "potential lost profits". This is just not at
253.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Sounds like a luxury not granted to, for instance, Central America under CAFTA. Edit: Fixed typo.
254.
by ab5tract 10y ago
That lawsuit would be in a civil court, with civil lawyers and actual judges. Not a room full of round-robin corporate laywers. My comment was not about whether it would be successful. My question was whether it provided the means to initia
255.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but under ISDS rules (a la TPP/TTIP), companies could now sue Sweden for potential lost profits as a result of this legislation, right? (Assuming Sweden is signed onto an ISDS treaty, which it probably is not)
256.
by ab5tract 10y ago
Critical analysis of neoliberal economics is not likely to be found in the pages of one of its primary mouthpieces, though sometimes the Economist does surprise and actually mentions an externality or two.
257.
by ab5tract 10y ago
FWIW, I've found that this quote: "Not only that, but you can't make any general rules to apply what you know about some expressions to others." has been greatly improved in Perl 6 over Perl 5. That is, the very rules of
258.
by ab5tract 10y ago
"Airbnb is a case of many people wanting to have their cake and eat it too" -- in fact, considering that the whole company was founded by two bros who couldn't afford their own rent, this is a perfect summation of what Airbnb
259.
by ab5tract 10y ago
We absolutely should tax the shit out of the cretins spawning more 'arrows for god' or parents so broken in the head that they push out 5 kids because they are chasing a specific gender.
260.
by ab5tract 11y ago
Hey chromatic, maybe you missed the parts where I explicitly said that my historical knowledge is only as good as the sources I have read (+/- my sideline experience)? Please stop framing my clarifications as intentionally disingenuous
261.
by ab5tract 11y ago
If the leaked documents implicate important US figures, but the reporting of the leaks do not mention them, then the public will interpret that as "see, US figures are not engaging in this activity!". In other words, the reporting
262.
by ab5tract 11y ago
Fair critique. I meant that in the sense that the original vision of Parrot was quite closely tied to delivering a VM which could handle P6. By logical extension, this would mean it could handle any given dynamic language. However, I am tal
263.
by ab5tract 11y ago
Parrot VM is a separate project from Perl 6. It originally started as a VM that could handle Perl 6, but then decided it wanted to focus on being a general VM for dynamic languages. This led to a rift between the two communities. Before all
264.
by ab5tract 11y ago
I think it would be closer to say "Perl 6 and Perl 5 are two completely different languages, and have about as much in common as Ruby and Perl 5". All the languages in that sentence are Perlish languages, so to me it conveys the r
265.
by ab5tract 11y ago
I'm not going to bother convincing you that printf is not the highest form of string interpolation. Seems like you've got your bases covered pretty well.
266.
by ab5tract 11y ago
Really? printf is cool and useful for it's own domain. But there is a reason that languages provide interpolation. And the simplest possible example above is not one of those reasons.
267.
by ab5tract 11y ago
"Go often prefers pain for the programmer for the compiler developer's life being simpler by about 5 minutes." Interesting contrast to the philosophy of Perl 6: 'torture the implementor on behalf of the user'.
268.
by ab5tract 11y ago
THIS! Who is paying these jackanapes to spew absurdities? The same people making money spouting prophecies of "tablets will kill desktop computing" are now being paid to spew prophecies of "tablets are dead". The origina
269.
by ab5tract 11y ago
Right... Another fad brought up for the sheer fashionability of it. Saying "mutable state is bad" is just as inane as saying "immutability is bad". There are tradeoffs for either. There is absolutely no reason to pretend
270.
by ab5tract 12y ago
You can go ahead and ignore the vertical dynamics of the illegal Wintel alliance on their chances if you want, but then I think we have nothing left to discuss. Also, Sheepshaver (sp?) was available on the PPC version, allowing Mac OS apps

More ›