abiox

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by abiox 9y ago
"transpiler" is a subset of "compiler".
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by abiox 9y ago
undefined is not a function!
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by abiox 9y ago
> dynamics of virality 'virality' is a very ... particular thing to be clinging to. many things 'go viral' then fall off a cliff.
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by abiox 9y ago
> in my humble experience what experience is that? you seem to suggest something which seems unlikely; there are a bunch of second order effects involved with making a game you're interested in.
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by abiox 9y ago
hmm.... but why?
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by abiox 9y ago
i'm not sure i understand how that is a 'perfect example' of 'don't tolerate dissent'. could you elaborate?
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by abiox 9y ago
> ...including making a choice on the trade-offs for JavaScript interaction. Languages that don't give developers much choice in how they are used are usually not going to be very successful. javascript already lets you do whatever
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by abiox 9y ago
twitter's core interaction mechanism was always ripe for trolling, brigading and other abuse. the ui in general is pretty bad.
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by abiox 9y ago
i have nearly 2000 games in my Steam account. i'll stick with windows for that.
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by abiox 9y ago
> there are features built into a modern OS that just won't work with a chip set that the user bought from Best Buy at the bargain rack what features?
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by abiox 9y ago
> That's definitely not what that phrasing means i invite you to learn about idioms! they're interesting. equivocating over idiomatic language is basically a waste of time.
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by abiox 9y ago
> 1) tsc --init # creates a tsconfig.json, no need to edit it hm... i reckon that if one doesn't need to edit a 'default' config file, perhaps the file doesn't really need to exist.
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by abiox 9y ago
'religious view' was an epistemic reference.
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by abiox 9y ago
> It presumes that it will because it has so far. that's the point though. seems like a standard example of the problem of induction.
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by abiox 9y ago
the comment seems to presume that 'X jobs per month' will persist into the future. apparently automation will only ever impact truck drivers.
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by abiox 9y ago
> Just as farmers & bowling-pin-setters found new jobs in the past, taxi-drivers will find new jobs in the future. this seems like something of a religious view, and seems to downplay the nature and scope of technological advancement
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by abiox 9y ago
> Firefox’s decline is not an engineering problem possibly. however for me, technical problems are why i avoid it in general. i still use it a bit, as i'm lazy about switching between user accounts with various services and separat
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by abiox 9y ago
> because it is very unfortunate to change the terminology of a project that is here for years ...is it? i guess my interpretation of saying 'unfortunate' here is that there is some kind of sentimental attachment or something.
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by abiox 9y ago
what do you mean?
530.
by abiox 9y ago
in a sense, generics just let you provide parameters to your types, just like you give parameters to functions. it's not all that magical.
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by abiox 9y ago
it's a bummer that the windows story for ocaml is so sketchy. i'd like to use it for work (various utilities and whatnot) but the ecosystem seems to make a lot of assumptions about the system it runs on. (for me there's sti
532.
by abiox 9y ago
> for what use case(s) i almost feel this is like asking bjarne what use cases there are for 'classes' in c-with-classes. it's a structural language change that (depending on implementation details) can have sweeping rami
533.
by abiox 9y ago
> with normal syntax what does this mean?
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by abiox 9y ago
> it isn't wrong are you referring to "might is right"? what makes you say that?
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by abiox 9y ago
they opened with 'Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project'. hard for me to see that as measured.
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by abiox 9y ago
seems unclear that being `different in tech` implies that `people [are] waiting for you to mess up and will punish you with controversy and/or honestly try and get you fired`.
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by abiox 9y ago
> just you pay a social price to do so it's not unheard of for this to go much, much further. doxxing, harassing associates, campaigns to fire people, 'de-platforming', stigmatization etc. such pursuit of wrongthink produ
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by abiox 9y ago
this looks like equivocation. the quoted 'at liberty' seems to refer to something like not being restricted by the law of the land. saying 'at liberty to murder' seems to refer to something like bodily autonomy/phys
539.
by abiox 9y ago
still hoping that someday we'll see namespacing in crates/cargo.
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by abiox 9y ago
poor performance and harassment are discreet issues. both can be true (or both false). as such, any record of performance isn't by nature proof of non-retaliation.

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