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by awj 16y ago
I'm not sure what the solution is, but something seriously needs to be done about the requirements Wikipedia has in place. Especially when applied to open source software, the notability requirement, combined with the definition of reliable
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by awj 16y ago
...Objectivist opponents and proponents agreeing on something? I take it the apocalypse is about a year early?
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by awj 16y ago
...yeah, not so much. It's GroupOn's responsibility to make sure that the deals they come up with aren't being totally negated by this kind of merchant shenanigans. If they knew or if they didn't, they still screwed up here.
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by awj 16y ago
The point I was making was more about the prospect of adding condition handling as a language user to an existing language. Basically that most language implementations make it impossible to add something like this using the tools provided
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by awj 16y ago
> Condition handling seems generally useful. There are definitely cases I could have used this. It's probably pretty straightforward to add to languages that have exceptions. Actually, it's not. In "normal" exceptions by the time an exc
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by awj 16y ago
> About a month later, I got a bill for $60 from amazon. ...sounds like you launched the wrong instance type (specifically "small" instead of "micro"). Unfortunately that's easy to do, since small is the default in most cases. From what
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by awj 16y ago
Not to argue the example, but Python's garbage collection disqualifies it for real-time systems as well. In fact, I'm having a hard time find a "system" task for which Python (as a language) is qualified by Haskell is not.
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by awj 16y ago
Yes, if it did that we would be able to modify it (and have those modifications reflected outside function scope). It doesn't, so we aren't. Primitives add complexity to many aspects of Java, calling semantics being one of them. I'd rather
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by awj 16y ago
Do you have any good examples? Because I never could come up with a good one. Probably 99% of the reference usage I've seen (all in C++, fwiw) could be about as easily accomplished with pass-by-sharing through pointers. The actual valid use
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by awj 16y ago
...except that when methods are implemented a pointer to the "object" is what gets handed over. The narrow distinction that this pointer is passed by value makes some people feel exceedingly clever, despite the fact that the semantics of
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by awj 16y ago
It's also a symptom of zooming way in on one context and ignoring another, or just general annoying pedantry. From the perspective of an object being passed to a method , Java is pass by reference. No copy of the object is made. From the
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by awj 16y ago
Especially considering the skill discrepancy between first and second string in almost all positions, ejecting the player with substitution is still a huge penalty. I also wouldn't be surprised if teams responded to this by rewriting thei
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by awj 16y ago
...and how do you know what changes need to be made? Maybe someone should instrument the players so we can collect data and analyze the various situations that prove problematic, then extrapolate back from there to rule changes. Too bad t
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by awj 16y ago
Yeah, that's not the tone I got from this at all. There are aspects of Erlang that can be hard to get used to, but it really isn't fair to criticize the language for not conforming to your previous experience.
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by awj 16y ago
The author of the article had a win-win situation in mind That may be what he has in mind, but experience shows that isn't what happens. Instead you get a situation where people with no interest whatsoever in purchasing anything cli
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by awj 16y ago
Also, SimpleGeo and StockTwits seem to be using about the same concept: use the company name as the logo, replace a letter with a symbol representing the business. The former is "good" while the latter is "average", and without an indicatio
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by awj 16y ago
> I tried to take on all the businessy things like support, so my cofounder could keep coding. He got work done, but it was mostly paying the technical debt we had accumulated when trying to launch quickly. ... it sounds like you were f
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by awj 16y ago
Math notation has gone through a decent bit of change over time, and has proven amenable to change to suit the needs of specific environments. Lisps don't force you to use "(+ 2 3 4)" instead of "2 + 3 + 4" to be contrary, it's there to pre
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by awj 16y ago
Yeah, I'm definitely not arguing that. The point is that, at least when people don't critically think about something (which happens depressingly often), people neglect training and skill in evaluating the difficulty of tasks that appear
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by awj 16y ago
> People don't like to be made aware that their locks are actually useless. They aren't useless. They raise the bar from "able to open a door" to "able to pick a lock or willing to break the door down". That cuts out like 99.9% of peopl
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by awj 16y ago
To further abuse that analogy, it's more that programming languages are like shoes in general. You can play basketball in cowboy boots, but it's a less than ideal setup. That said, Kobe Bryant could probably beat me at basketball wearing
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by awj 16y ago
I can understand that opinion, but having the user's ability to access your site be in anyone else's hands is a scary thing. Especially when it can create even nastier customer service issues than a lost password. I'm not really sure what
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by awj 16y ago
> Like... email addresses? Or do you not think it's good to provide a "forgot password" link which emails a reset mechanism? Yeah, but those are for retrieving an account, not for day-to-day logins. I'm only dealing with trouble when so
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by awj 16y ago
Yeah, still not buying it. There's no way in hell I would think it's good to put a third party between my site and my users when that party can go down or change the only identifier I have. I understand password pain, but so does everyone e
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by awj 16y ago
... except logins and emails are known, understood points of failure that tend to fail closed. If I forget my login I can't access the website, but I can usually go to the website and play email bingo until I hit the one I used. If my email
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by awj 16y ago
Wow, someone needs to calm down. Stop calling people Karl Rove because they aren't seeing the same argument you are. Maybe it's deliberate, maybe it's not, in either case the accusation looks foolish. After using both, the noob experience i
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by awj 20y ago
"The reason why I don't like drugs: if they are so beneficial, why doesn't the body produce them by itself? It seems to me evolution would have figured out a way to do that by now. If it hasn't, maybe there are some side effects that dimini