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No, it isn't sarcastic. It's the unfortunate truth. This is well reported on and researched. Republicans leave the Democrats a mess to clean up, the Democrats do, but the economy only starts to boom once the Republicans first retu
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It's hard to fathom any of this, and it's seriously concerning how out of touch Gen Zers apparently are. These unreasonable expectations of an entitled and clueless generation are pretty jawdropping. I hate to use those words, but
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Freedom of or from what?
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Software engineers will do anything to not pay for software.
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For what use is this?
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It's not a big caveat. How else would you define paycheck to paycheck? I'm talking about days, weeks, or low single digit months. A window of time is not indefinite. The point of measuring people living from paycheck to paycheck i
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That's all well and good, so where's the link to the studies and the studies' parameters? It's not like I'm denying well presented findings. In absence of those, I can hold skepticism about the claims. My definition
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> US Federal Reserve studies indicate that the percentage of US households with no excess income after necessary expenses (as distinct from "ordinary expenses" as a term of art) is on the order of 10-15%. This definition roughl
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If I am understanding that |x| 2 * x in Rust is an anonymous function, another F# equivalent is fun x -> 2 * x.
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I thought that the Rust playground was requiring me to use return, but I was mistaken. However, it actually lends to my original point though because I would wager that dropping the return was part of the influence of ML on the beginnings o
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I can understand that. I think it just points to that the challenge is not for me. It also comes at a time when I desperately want a break or to work on my own projects, software or otherwise.
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The argument you make about literature is one I have made before, but I don't think it applies here. To me, languages with clean syntax aren't just removing things arbitrarily. They remove things that aren't needed or they ot
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There is something real to it. It's not just nostalgia or a fad. Go and look at product manuals from the 70s through 90s. They're awesome and detailed with diagrams and even exposition discussing the general genre of product. For
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If you like Python and Lisps, then I'm surprised you don't like F#. It is much more concise than Python, even for pure OOP programming.
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MLs aren't really academic languages aside from Standard ML. F# and OCaml are very pragmatic languages. The cleaner parts of Rust came from ML. What syntaxes do engineers find clean? I don't understand the distinction you're
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Vastly. You were probably using Mono. .NET is now fully cross-platform and very good at being so.
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That's interesting you dislike ML syntaxes when they're generally thought to be the cleanest syntaxes. What syntax families do you generally like? Also, Haskell isn't really ML-syntax. I love MLs but find Haskell syntax prett
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But what does that buy you?
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One reason I didn't enjoy it was that I felt the days don't build on each other well. So you get little code reuse. It was continually changing requirements, so it was especially like work.
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It takes mere seconds to write type hints, and with modern auto-complete tooling or Copilot, it's basically automatic. It goes a long way to use tools like MyPy to verify your code and also provide documentation for users of your code.
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This isn't really a specific complaint about this book. Just triggered my thoughts on a general theme. Thanks for writing the book. I might look into it, as I'm generally interested in Lisp/Scheme-likes.
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This is a very "Internet" comment, but what struck me about the title and very many other titles in the software engineering world is that I'm not sure it's the best idea to belittle readers in the title. The implication
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Are you wanting to get into LLMs in particular or something else? I am a software engineer also trying to make headways into so-called "AI", but I have little interest in LLMs. For one, it's suffering from a major hype bubble
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Homeomorphic is also interesting because it's a very fancy sounding word for a concept that has very few requirements to be met. It's usually a basic requirement for concepts in topology, but it does very little to distinguish top
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Intuitively, just imagine picking a starting point on each of the circle and the knot. Now walk at different speeds such that you get back to the starting point at the same time. In fact, that's what the knot is: a continuous, bijectiv
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Yep. Datatypes, helper functions, and then the good stuff. In every file. It is actually beautiful and easy.
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> Only an adult can look and see what that was - immature, insecure little boys, desperately trying to show off as bigger/more mature or kick down anybody showing any weakness or mistake. Often issues from home manifesting hard. Its
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What does premature formalization mean and when does it occur? Do you mean formal in the sense of using formulaic, rote manipulations or formal in the sense of proofs and rigor? As someone who went on to study mathematics at the graduate le
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The large majority of MIT undergraduates graduate debt free.
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Bambu Labs' quality and feature set is much, much higher and larger than Prusa's, and the price is right. Prusa bet on people wanting to continually fiddle with their 3D printer, but that segment is already niche and likely dying

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