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by ajxs 7y ago
I disagree with your reasoning. Your use of the word 'someones' sounds rather sinister, the _Someones_ involved in building and running chemical plants aren't going to choose to pay extra to inconvenience minorities, I assure
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by ajxs 7y ago
> ...all the things that happen to poor households generally happen more intensively to black households. That was kinda my point, but black communities being over-represented among the population at risk does not mean necessarily imply
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by ajxs 7y ago
I disagree with this completely. If it was overall cheaper to build industrial infrastructure in so-called "white communities", companies would be doing it. This kind of capitalism largely concedes no such moral imperatives. Also,
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by ajxs 7y ago
> ...there should be enough educated/financially able/motivated people in these areas that would mobilize and do something about it. I beg to differ with this point. If you're an educated person not looking to work in a bl
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by ajxs 7y ago
The re-framing of this story within the narrative of American racial conflict feels remarkably cheap. Don't misinterpret this as a lack of sympathy for those residents, I feel quite the opposite. I feel strongly about this in particula
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by ajxs 8y ago
My comment was more addressing the general public misconceptions of the language. I showed some of my teammates the work I've been doing in it and they were shocked, expecting the language to look like COBOL. When I reference "tod
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by ajxs 8y ago
Calling myself an Ada partisan is a bit of a stretch. I've recently begun using it for embedded development, which is a domain almost completely dominated by C. That's the angle I'm coming in from.
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by ajxs 8y ago
The Ada partisans are all out in force here in this thread to defend Ada, all four of us. haha... For what it's worth, niche as Ada may be, it's an _important_ niche. It remains widespread in safety-critical applications, and isn&
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by ajxs 8y ago
Oh, pardon me. I re-read your post and it makes more sense to me now! Maybe that plays a role. I more attribute this, somewhat in jest, to enough time having elapsed since the renaissance of dynamically typed languages began for developers
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by ajxs 8y ago
Inferred typing is just a feature of statically typed languages. Static typing just refers to the type of a variable being known at compile-time. Type inference is the ability of the compiler to infer the variable's type from the conte
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by ajxs 8y ago
I feel this is quite a nuanced question, I can answer one aspect of it though. When I think of what 'memory-safety' means in this context I think mainly of buffer overflows, dangling pointers, etc, things that have nothing really
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by ajxs 8y ago
I came here to the comments to post this exact thing, haha. I'm very late to the Ada party, and I'm amazed at how ahead of its time this language was. It's still very usable and modern by today's standards.
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by ajxs 8y ago
I'm really glad to see that there is a huge resurgence in support for statically typed languages in mainstream programming. I always felt that this was somewhat inevitable, but the tide of opinion was against it for a while. I complete
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by ajxs 8y ago
There are a few basic tutorials here: https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page that can definitely give you some insight into how kernel development works. It's an incredibly disciplined and broad field, but very inte
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by ajxs 8y ago
Is this a joke, ignorance or just being plain disingenuous? The issue of Chinese money disrupting regulatory bodies and academia in Australia and New Zealand is quite severe. China has fantastic power projection with far less restraint than
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by ajxs 8y ago
I agree with you. Unfortunately there's numerous perverse incentives within the business sector that are promoting this. I'm glad I won't be alive in 2070 to fly intercontinental in an aeroplane with avionics written in Node.
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by ajxs 8y ago
While it seems anecdotally true that the mathematical foundations of computer science are being downplayed in universities in favour of giving students a more practical education in software engineering, which is an entire contentious discu
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by ajxs 8y ago
I think I might not have explained myself too well up there. I was referring to entirely sequential async calls. Like: ``` Thing thing = await loadThing(); Thing other = await thing.doSomething(); thing = await saveThing(); // rep
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by ajxs 8y ago
I actually just made the term up myself just then to describe my feelings about the fact that all of the methods in our service layer are just `await this(); await that(); await another(); //...` and so on. Please be aware that th
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by ajxs 8y ago
I would actually agree with your statement about Typescript and vscode. Working with TS has actually been quite pleasant as far as getting up and running goes. I only ever had to consult the docs a handful of times, and each time my questio
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by ajxs 8y ago
Depending on what it is you're doing, I feel that .net and Java are far superior choices. Obviously these are pretty heavy languages, so obviously decide for yourself whether the size of your app justifies using a language like this. M
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by ajxs 8y ago
I've had too many terrible experiences having to maintain and work with buggy and poorly designed Node/Typescript packages. I'm especially thinking of the terrible choice of ORMs available for Node, Typescript in particular.
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by ajxs 8y ago
My post was directed at back-end development in Typescript/Javascript. My apologies if that wasn't clearer. I don't really have any experience in front-end development in Typescript, so I can't really comment on that. It
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by ajxs 8y ago
At the risk of being downvoted into Hades, I feel that if your project is complex enough to warrant using Typescript, its complex enough to warrant using a more robust and comprehensive language. After using Typescript extensively working o
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by ajxs 8y ago
I didn't really look at the quote as being a literal, canonical truth. I have my own doubts about it being _literally_ true, but I feel that the underlying idea that "the longer a bug persists through the development process the c
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by ajxs 8y ago
I believe it was Dr Robert Dewar of AdaCore fame who I first heard remark that ( paraphrased ) every time a bug gets missed at a stage of development ( compile-time to alpha, to beta, to production, etc ) the cost of it's resolution in
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by ajxs 8y ago
I'm fairly certain that the characteristic "If this component malfunctions loss of life is one potential outcome" is a solid case for the component actually being safety critical. The pilots would never have needed to disable
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by ajxs 8y ago
I would contend that the naïveté that would allow someone to have ever seen Google's management as benevolent is that same naïveté that will ultimately allow these practices to continue with impunity.
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by ajxs 8y ago
I wholeheartedly salute you. The individual willing to stand up for a principle at great personal expense is the kind of hero the world needs more of. While I admire your resolve, I can't help but feel pessimistic about the cause. My v
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by ajxs 8y ago
Absolutely not, but horses for courses. I use all of these dynamically typed languages regularly and I enjoy programming in them too, but choosing the right tool for the job should take precedence over personal preferences.

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