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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
> Mostly though, I love functional programming because it makes mucking around with data structures a lot easier. Can you talk more about that? My experience has actually been largely the opposite: immutability actually makes working wit
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
While the article is particularly focused on concurrency, I think that there's a larger takeaway: namely, that language features are paraded around as, essentially, features of the software that's written using them. Functional la
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A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages Are Overrated (2010)(benrady.com)
39 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|51 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I used Linux on the desktop for years. I ultimately switched to Macintosh because I was sick of battling my operating system to fulfill basic consumer needs. To be fair, this was five years ago, and I'm sure that Linux has made usabili
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I don't think this is a fair comparison. From the perspective of most consumers, the iPhone does just as much as its competitors. (This is even true for me, an engineer: I neither need nor want my smartphone to be a generic computing d
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
My girlfriend spent a couple of years in a lab that studies blood factors in aging -- parabiosis was an important aspect of their methodology. A couple of notes: 1) Parabiosis does not refer to infusions of young blood. Parabiosis specifica
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I ask this seriously: who cares? Literally -- who should be concerned about this? Mass data collection is no longer a surprise; it's simply another feature of the landscape at this point. Additionally, the notion that an individual in
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
You should post that to the front page -- the ensuing discussion would be definitely interesting.
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Functional Programming Isn't the Answer (2014)(degoes.net)
54 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|91 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
A slightly different perspective from the other comments: as far as I know, 23andMe only works with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). While far better than nothing, this covers a combinatorially small subset of genetic variation, and,
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
To be fair, it's significantly more difficult to manage and maintain a remote team than a local team. Some people thrive under those circumstances, of course, but I think that many more benefit from working with their team in "mea
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
A combination of historical factors (the concentration of major tech companies here, the resultant concentration of venture capital, even the very idea of "Silicon Valley"), the presence of large feeder populations (Berkeley, Stan
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
They survived, dude -- sorry to frustrate your ghoulish glee.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Arguably it is -- it implies that non-political communication exists, which (as this thread demonstrates) is a politically-laden claim. This, of course, doesn't demonstrate that nonpolitical communication is in fact impossible, but it
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I get the impression that "Hamilton" appeals to people who want to feel "down with the minorities" but get the vapors if they accidentally look at Section 8 housing.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The author herself doesn't seem to be experiencing outrageous banking pain, though. She's paying no US taxes, and could almost certainly fill out her own tax forms if the thousand-Euro fee is onerous. It's completely unclear
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
By far the most unrealistic thing about "Silicon Valley" is the complete lack of technical obstacles and setbacks faced by any team in the show. But that's eminently forgivable -- no one (certainly not I) wants to watch three
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
While there are certainly conditions in which these bacteria might thrive, their inbuilt inefficiency -- secreting large quantities of energy-rich alcohol -- suggests that, in their current form, they'd be relatively easy to outcompete
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Bit of a nitpick about an otherwise compelling piece, but both Rothman and the protagonist of "Elizabeth Costello" somewhat misrepresent Nagel's wonderful "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" ( http://organizati
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It seems like a category error to worry too much about machines deciding that humans are an "inefficiency" or a "liability." The drive towards maximizing efficiency is alien to computer systems that have not been explici
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Z is designed to loop through its 7918 instructions forever, but if it did eventually stop, it would prove ZFC inconsistent. Mathematicians wouldn’t be too panicked, though – they could simply shift to a slightly stronger set of axioms
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
How do these four freedoms constitute a border between "morally wrong" and "morally neutral or good" software? That seems dubious to me.
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by bertiewhykovich 11y ago
I don't understand the logic of extrapolating industry-wide pathology from one pathological example. That's not to say that millennials aren't "being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies" -- but this article giv
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by bertiewhykovich 11y ago
Given that the tagline for the project is "Fusion Reactor for Rust," I'd guess that the project's name is designed to read to English speakers as "Tokamak" while maintaining a "Russian flavor." EDIT:
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by bertiewhykovich 11y ago
The cognitive load of differentiating between everything named "Go" in the tech ecosystem is giving me a migraine.