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601.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Sometimes you need a break. That's all. It would be more ideal if companies recognised that and we can stop all the pretence.
602.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
I read the gang of four, got a hard on and banged out some code with lots of classes with really long names. Felt damn proud of it at the time. Wanted to be the next Martin Fowler, but probably just some confused poor sod now maintaining th
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Sometimes good enough is best, and other times a refactoring is worth it. Key is to think of it from a business point of view. If you always refactor or never refactor, both extremes are suboptimal IMO. Deciding when a quick fix is good vs.
604.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
True but I guess many OOers don't care to try to think prototypically. I did and I conclude that OO and prototypes suck equally so might as well use the prototypes
605.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Yeah people wish alien language is more like their home planet language, so there isn't a new mental model to learn.
606.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Or JS for that matter.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
This was a bit painful to use: http://reaxml.realestate.com.au/docs/reaxml1-xml-format.html Its an xml format for uploading property listings. Came with a dtd but was hard to really fathom out which combinations are va
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Sure * Your values wont be null. So if you have a type say Object, and a value x of type Object. x will never be null. If in some cases you need values that can be something, or nothing, there is a "Maybe a" type and an "Eith
609.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
You can't do anything extra since ps compiles to is anyway. However you can get all of the advantages of a powerful type system, and far more compile time guarantees.
610.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Next stop: Purescript :-)
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
I work for a company that bets on the horses, and yet they use broadly similar techniques. But this doesn't replace humans at all. Also as an aside, correctly predicting a superfecta happens quite a lot, and it is hard to tell from sam
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Solution is to move the bathrooms into the open plan. No more slacking or being aa wimp in private. Or even better give everyone nappies so they can clean themselves on their own dime. Once they get home.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Is there a podcast that will stop me wanting to vomit as the bus driver breaks hard every 10 seconds, or help me battle my way through the queue to get onto said bus?
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Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf](okmij.org)
1 points by bbcbasic 10y ago|0 comments
615.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Good place to forward your 404 or unused domains.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
It transmits emotion at the speed of light, anywhere in the world, on demand.
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Data types à la carte (2008-ish I guess?)(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
5 points by bbcbasic 10y ago|0 comments
618.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Upvoted. I love it when someone who really knows what they are talking about chimes in.
619.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Probably chuck it at real estate. Maybe bet a bit on raising interest rates as a hedge.
620.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Was it all fixed in '76?
621.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Consider my brain fucked.
622.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
We have WiX, does that count?
623.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Wow! Uber is quite the domino :-)
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Thanks. The GP's comment "attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth" is what confused me, thinking the string is attached to the earth, with the weight in orbit.
625.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
What if a plane gets tangled up in it?
626.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
I'd love it to be Haskell + whatever
627.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
It's down for upgrade at the moment. What prevents immutable spam?
628.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Shills galore in this thread
629.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
What if I'm neither a morning or night person?
630.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
If they are paying users. Hell yeah :-)

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