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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
That still has a very consumerist bent to it. What about some real outcome-based measurements? Why aren't we measuring how well the economy performs by measuring how healthy people are? Or levels of malnutrition? Or happiness? Or stres
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Apple products don't really seem to display this much. Maybe it's why (or because) they cost twice as much as products from other manufacturers.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Unfortunately, what ends up happening in most cases is that people make products, give them a ridiculous 1y or 2y warranty, then claim that if there're any problems after that time period you'll have to pay to repair or replace.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>If buses would be so much cheaper that special wheel-chair accessible vans could be provided instead then maybe that's a case that should be shrugged-off. No, it shouldn't. This is the problem with just saying 'the market
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
What's wrong with 'designing for me' when it's his own stylesheet for the page ?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
No, a pure function taking the original source code as the only argument.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I disagree. It's a lot harder to see what code using them does at a glance, because the names are meaningless. 'forM' means what, exactly? Nothing. It means nothing until you apply it to a particular monad. It's trivial
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
This reminds me of the 'fine-grained permissions' vs. 'broad permissions' security models. The former is more expressive, more powerful, etc. It also is technical, complicated and confusing. The latter is less powerful a
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I'll point out again that this is very reminiscent of the OOP fad and "everything is an object". "Everything is a monad" is similar. "It's all just the CPU monad" is just.. inane. It's like sayin
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I think that the stock market model encourages short-term thinking. I think everyone agrees with that. Thankfully there's another option: just don't sell out. Stay private. You might not become a billionaire, but who really wants
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>The benefit of working with typeclasses has always been the ability to see and abstract out patterns that occur through Functors, Applicatives, Monoids, et al. Which leads to code that needs to be puzzled out, rather than code that flow
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Yeah at the end of the day it's just another programming language, and you can really get things done in any programming language.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The most important feature of monads definitely isn't composition, because they don't compose well at all . Monad composition is the worst feature, by far, because it doesn't exist. >Also, as someone in the Haskell indust
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Thank god. I've felt like we've been getting closer to breaching the peak of the hype curve for what I'd probably call 'monadic pure functional programming' i.e. Haskell, Scalaz, etc. It'll have its hardcore ad
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
And there, again, the myth is repeated that the market is an efficient way to encourage good ideas. It isn't. It's a good way to encourage safe ideas.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I think this would be far more useful as an overlay over a physical map than just entirely replacing one. By that, I mean.. think of isobars.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I disagree about the London tube map. I think it's brilliant. I barely looked at a real map any of the times I've stayed in London. I know the places I want to go, all the guide books (and locals!) tell you the nearest tube statio
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>Blocking a road is not free speech. Preventing people from going into a building is not free speech. This is just private citizens attempting to restrict the right of movement of other private citizens. It's a march. It's a pr
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
And of course it makes sense in context. ('It' being changing an agrarian capitalist society to an agrarian communist society - clearly the natural progression.)
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
It has everything to do with free speech. It wasn't about being 'disorderly', it was about laughing at a confirmation hearing being considered disorderly.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The USA doesn't have freedom of speech in any meaningful sense. You only have to look at the way peaceful protestors are treated to see that. The Occupy Wall Street protesters were treated horrifically. As more and more formerly public
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>"Rights to be forgotten" is another peculiar notion popular in some TV propaganda driven Western countries loving makeovers. Keep on rocking in the free world while it lasts. Right to be forgotten isn't peculiar and neith
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The Holodomor wasn't an attempt to enforce power, it was a genuine attempt to modernise agriculture by forcing the change to happen.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
That's just plainly false. It's entirely possible to implement it using employees that are human reviewers. If that's not profitable then they should rework their business model until it is profitable.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
You don't 'teach it'. You learn it.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
That's rather disingenuous, because Haskell forces you to use `newtype` wrappers for lots of things you shouldn't need them for and don't need them for in C++.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Just use a password manager with a single long secure pass phrase you can remember.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
across a network in modern parlance
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
So it's not a daemon or a server. It's just a process. Running some code in a separate process isn't a 'server' it's just how all programmes operate.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
This isn't a thing elsewhere?

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