axilmar

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by axilmar 5y ago
That's not the only metaphore that doesn't work any more. There are others as well: - files and folders (the article speaks about them). That's so ...50s. We need 'piece of information' to be the basic building bloc
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by axilmar 5y ago
Is there any true reason to use D over C++? At least with Rust you get some guarantees that you don't get with C++.
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by axilmar 5y ago
While it's good technology, it could be improved quite a lot. There are still quite a few gotchas/peculiar things in it.
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by axilmar 6y ago
I have only worked with Haskell on a personal basis, trying to understand if purity has any actual advantages. I have yet to be persuaded about the need to have code be pure. I never had any issue reasoning about impure code, and I do not f
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by axilmar 6y ago
I totally disagree with the author. For me, the problem of state management in the GUI is totally solved: the GUI shouldn't manage state, plain and simple. If you have a problem synchronizing your views with a light, that's becaus
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by axilmar 6y ago
Proving that an algorithm will do no harm is exactly the same as proving that an algorithm terminates: in both cases, we are trying to know the output of the program without running it. We may prove some programs, but we can't have a g
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by axilmar 6y ago
It's not gynmastics that is child abuse, it is the bad behavior of coaches that is child abuse. Let's not confuse the issues and terms, please.
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by axilmar 6y ago
The newline character plays a very important role in formatting source code: long declarations/statements are usually broken up into several lines of code using hidden newlines. These newlines do not alter the meaning of code. The same
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by axilmar 6y ago
I have two accounts, in one I was found introverted, in the other I was found extroverted. Go figure...
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by axilmar 6y ago
2 Live Crew were from the South, weren't they? isn't Miami considered South in US?
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by axilmar 6y ago
About newlines and string literals: why do languages allow newlines in source code to be part of strings? is there some hidden wisdom behind that? Personally, I would expect that the string "the quick brown fox jumps over th
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by axilmar 6y ago
We need better techology, that's one thing that's certain. The current technology we have has too many security holes.
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by axilmar 6y ago
SEGA lost the chance to dominate the home console market by the simple fact that Megadrive did not have sprite scaling and rotation. This fact meant subpar coinop conversions for SEGA'a flagship games like Outrun and Powerdrift. Not th
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by axilmar 6y ago
An effective DRM technique would be to spread a version of the game without DRM but with lots of malware in it then.
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by axilmar 6y ago
> Scrolling gives users a spatial feeling The spatial feeling is necessary only if things take more space than needed. In this case, this is not valid. There are no things that take more space than needed. It's simply a distraction.
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by axilmar 6y ago
I don't like this at all. Scrolling is a 'no' in serious UI design, and tiling should be an option. The video is too fast to allow any actual evaluation of its offerings. The big buttons in the section 'find your tasks i
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by axilmar 6y ago
I don't believe in throwing out the old completely. As others have noted, the cost of completely replacing the current infrastructure is astronomical. What could be done instead would be a parallel virtual platform inside the current t
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by axilmar 6y ago
I didn't say 'the same bug manifested in different ways', I said 'same number of bugs but manifested in different ways'. I.e. the defect ratio was similar, bugs in my FP program were of different type than in the im
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by axilmar 6y ago
From what I read here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57489844/how-does-readio... IORef does not allow a value to mutate, it allows a pointer to a value to mutate. Am I correct? Does the ST Monad work in the
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by axilmar 6y ago
In other words, Emacs has its own markup language? how does emacs know that a specific bit of text is a button, for example?
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by axilmar 6y ago
No one writes 10000 line programs, either imperative, or functional, without testing and running smaller parts of it. At least no one that I know of. I have dealt with ML while doing my MSc in software engineering, and wrote my dissertation
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by axilmar 6y ago
My seemingly offensive comments came after I received seemingly offensive comments from others. It's very rare that I start discussions by offensive comments. I start discussions by disagreement though. If that is deemed offensive, wha
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by axilmar 6y ago
Personally I'd like c++ to: a) have default parameters in any parameter position. I.e. for this to be legal: foo(int x = 0, int y, int z = 0) {} b) to allow me to invoke a function like this: foo(,) //x and z a
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by axilmar 6y ago
My personal experience with Haskell hackers went like this: -I used to hang out at lambda-the-ultimate, in which haskell was considered god sent and c++ a toy language. At the time, I was heavy into writing simulation software, which meant
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by axilmar 6y ago
Just use what is the best tool for the job, people. No need to use only one way or another. I am using FP together with OOP when it makes sense, with great results. Both approaches have their advantages in specific contexts.
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by axilmar 6y ago
Yes, it's a feedback loop. If the value created from the loan covers the interest, then the whole thing is a net positive for the economy, otherwise it's a net negative.
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by axilmar 6y ago
In my humble opinion, the article is too complex and the topic at hand could be explained in an easier way: -banks can create money when they issue a loan, because, if all things go well, the created money will create wealth. -banks cannot
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by axilmar 6y ago
And discoverability is the no 1 problem of the command line interface, that's why a lot of people don't like the command line so much. It would be a lot nicer if, while typing a command, a list of options came up, along with a sho
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by axilmar 6y ago
Well, since 1 is added to a number, the number will eventually reach a power of 2, even if the number is divided by 2 in between. Once it reaches a power of 2, it can only become odd when it reaches 1, so there you have it.
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by axilmar 6y ago
The security argument is flawed: iOS devices would be fully secured if Apple allowed secondary app stores on their devices. Using other stores not supported by Apple would have come with a big risk warning anyway. It would then be the user&

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