bendmorris

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by bendmorris 6y ago
>Forecasts give us probability distributions based on historical polling error data. They would give you a probability distribution if they were truly random samples. But in reality, response rates are very low, and pollsters make up for
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by bendmorris 6y ago
>lets just ban driving? Or maybe let's infringe on your freedoms by: requiring a license to drive, requiring use of a seatbelt, setting safety standards for car manufacturers...
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by bendmorris 6y ago
Presidents seem to get a lot of, sometimes undeserved, credit for the economy when they were President. Besides inherit a strong and growing economy, what specifically did Trump do to deserve credit for the stock market growth under him? An
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Why We Moved from React to Svelte(medium.com)
3 points by bendmorris 6y ago|0 comments
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by bendmorris 7y ago
The Supreme Court has held that this applies to criminal law - you can't change the punishment of a crime or change rules of evidence to convict someone who was acquitted. You can certainly pass laws to undo a merger or (equivalently)
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by bendmorris 7y ago
For your desktop browser you want JIT, but it's absolutely not required for all applications. For example, some platforms don't allow JIT due to security concerns, so any JS on those platforms has to be interpreted. There are also
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by bendmorris 7y ago
Honestly, what is the holdup on releasing the source? Other languages are developed entirely out in the open - what are you worried about? Why not just release it today in whatever state it's in, as was previously promised? Without rel
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by bendmorris 7y ago
>Because Volt must have been written in V (please let me know if a counterevidence exists) The source of V or any substantial V project haven't been released, and the author making inaccurate claims about the compiler (and taking do
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Kitlang: Cross-Compiling with Kit(blog.kitlang.org)
3 points by bendmorris 7y ago|0 comments
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by bendmorris 8y ago
Shameless plug: Kit ( https://www.kitlang.org ), a statically typed language with no runtime, can interface with C without bindings (by directly including C headers.) Kit includes features such as traits, term rewriting, algebraic
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by bendmorris 8y ago
It doesn't. It requires building political will in the group that's been left out to override them.
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by bendmorris 8y ago
The problem is housing being treated as an investment, resulting in artificially high prices and limited supply for the people who need to live in it. We should buy housing to live in, not to extract rent from the suckers that were too late
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by bendmorris 8y ago
We're trying to limit gift giving from any one source to both a dollar and item limit. It's been a struggle and some family members complain about staying within the limits we've requested (ironically, gift giving seems to be
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Kitlang: Why I Created Kit(blog.kitlang.org)
3 points by bendmorris 8y ago|0 comments
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by bendmorris 8y ago
What is "zero-cost" garbage collection?
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>It took me a long time to figure out what .njk files were. Nunjucks is a very popular JS templating language (more or less a straight port of the even more popular jinja2) - it's not an odd choice at all. https://github.
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by bendmorris 8y ago
#2 is more likely than #3 because a reasonable person gives access to another contributor or someone they spent a few minutes vetting, not a total stranger with no GitHub history.
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>The latter solution isn't much better It is unquestionably better than your users, whose trust you've earned over time, suddenly finding that their app is mining cryptocurrency. >He didn't give anybody the power to do
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by bendmorris 8y ago
People keep casually making this suggestion. In JS this can involve hundreds or thousands of transient dependencies. Have you ever (1) worked on a React app and (2) vetted all of React's 829 dependencies yourself? It's not remotel
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>If semantic versioning always behaved as it should be The exploit in question specifically relied on this expectation, by creating a new patch release for the exploit. Even if you could trust well-intentioned maintainers to use it corre
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by bendmorris 8y ago
I agree, but you have to start from a known working state at some point - and at that point you are extending trust to that specific set of versions. Anyone who ran `framework create-project` for a framework that included event-stream as a
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>He had no way of knowing the person who took it over would use it maliciously. Then it was, clearly, negligent of him to give it to this person. He gave a stranger the power to do things in his name. He doesn't have to maintain the
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>Ultimately, you can't take dependencies for granted. The problem is that JS dependencies are so modular that shifting the burden to vet your dependencies to developers is generally not realistic. Creating a new project with one o
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by bendmorris 8y ago
> if they invent new something ... they probably have a good reason to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here Even if there were no reason at all, the bias toward writing things ourselves ensures that we&#x
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by bendmorris 8y ago
Thanks for the response Nicolas. I'm not reading any ill intent into this. I do think that it's time for the Haxe Foundation to make time to be more transparent, or it will continue to stunt your growth as community members get
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>the onus should be on the proposer I'll bite: what should @Lerc have done differently in his proposal ( https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-evolution/pull/51 )?
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by bendmorris 8y ago
To quote you again: >perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough? Why jump to finding fault with the OP, rather than accepting feedback about the process? AFAICT you didn't actually check OP's proposal b
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by bendmorris 8y ago
>perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough? Why the automatic defense of the Haxe team? Frankly, small communities like this sometimes come across as cult-like in their response to criticism, and it isn't a
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by bendmorris 8y ago
Similar experience here. I've proposed a few changes to the language and none have been accepted. Rejecting convenience features with no downside like concise object literals is unfortunate. It literally took over four years to final
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by bendmorris 8y ago
https://www.kitlang.org made the front page recently; I was asleep and didn't notice until I woke up with a bunch of notifications and emails. Content that appealed to people, not gaming, got it there.

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