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by brl 18y ago
What about circular references?
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by brl 18y ago
In the case of dangling pointers, garbage collection just converts a potential heap corruption bug into a probable memory leak instead. Not really an obvious win. At least in C you have to be conscious of memory management in order to suc
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by brl 18y ago
Haha, so weird. First comment ever and it's in a meta-HN thread. I call shenanigans.
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by brl 18y ago
What are they called now?
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by brl 18y ago
I'm not putting down the contributions of secretaries or any other non-engineering roles in a company. My point is simply that the quality of developer talent at a software company will permanently influence the future of that company in a
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by brl 18y ago
Why not?
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by brl 18y ago
I guess because hiring a mediocre secretary or janitor will not jeopardize a software company in the same way as hiring a team of mediocre engineers.
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by brl 18y ago
You're not doing a very good job here of dispelling the stereotypes people have of fraternity members.
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75% of new open-source software written in C or Java(theregister.co.uk)
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by brl 18y ago
Yeah, exactly. The help command should also have a dozen useless esoteric options but no obvious way to actually get any help. Here are some suggestions :) -B Don't not use non-buffered IO for not displaying output -e Pipe help outp
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by brl 18y ago
It's probably true. http://i39.tinypic.com/k2n8n.jpg
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by brl 18y ago
The concept is brilliant and filled with potential, but like every other joke on Uncyclopedia the delivery is pretty disappointing. For example, they set up an awesome joke here: uncyclopedia@uncyclo-laptop:~$ help --help Display
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by brl 18y ago
Since Finger Trees are powered by Monoids, this is also a very good explanation of why Monoids are useful in Haskell.
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by brl 18y ago
Anybody who would want to get rid of this book is insane. This is a book worth keeping your whole life whether you have read it yet or not.
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by brl 18y ago
The exercises are actually scattered throughout the text. Definitely don't skip them, some of them are a lot harder and more mind-blowing than they look.
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by brl 18y ago
The comments he's referring to are hilarious: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/experiments-in-philoso... I can't imagine spending hours writing essays with elaborate 'rational' arguments to defend one interpretation. If somebody tol
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by brl 18y ago
Because it's fun watching you go bananas in the banana thread.
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by brl 18y ago
Interesting, all edible bananas are sterile: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0726_wireban...
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by brl 18y ago
The bananas you buy at the supermarket are all genetically identical clones. This is why they are so vulnerable to the banana plague.
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by brl 18y ago
Not sure what your point about Java is since it doesn't seem to be either very evil or a very pure OO language.
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by brl 18y ago
You can do that, but nobody writes Java code like this since it's more awkward and aesthetically offensive than explicit bounds checking.
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by brl 18y ago
Night security at some office building sounds like a dream job to me. I would do it for free and maybe I would even pay to do it since I would get more (computer) work done there than working out of my apartment.
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by brl 18y ago
Does this look obviously illegal to you? It does to me. http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/fosforgroot.jpg I think this is a world record for number of different war crimes captured in a single photograph.
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by brl 18y ago
There is no possible legal justification so it doesn't matter what their motives are.
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by brl 18y ago
It's a very nice slogan that 'Israel has every right to defend themselves' from the rocket attacks, but they have no legal rights to take actions outside of the constraints of International Humanitarian Law. Reprisals against civilians and
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by brl 18y ago
I really should have mentioned Scheme in the title.
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by brl 18y ago
A typical well written Haskell program has more type annotation than the same program written in Java. Not only that but because of type classes those annotations are even more verbose than an equivalent declaration in Java. It's true th
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by brl 18y ago
I estimate that I've written about half a million lines of C code and I will have to strongly disagree with that. Manual memory management just isn't that much of a big deal once you are experienced enough with C to organize your software i
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by brl 18y ago
Noob answer: In a strict language, you write an expression and it's perfectly clear when it will be evaluated. With lazy evaluation to know if or when an expression will be evaluated you have to follow it through possibly many layers of fun
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by brl 18y ago
Yes, I have had to solve this problem a lot. It's probably my own fault because I am an inexperienced Haskell programmer, and maybe it's just because I'm incompetent but I find space performance very difficult to reason about. It seems lik

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