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by cantankerous 12y ago
Agree with you there. Programmers need to understand the semantics of their language and use it to their advantage. I think this is especially the case in functional languages, especially in Haskell, where two seemingly similar pieces of
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Good read. Minor quibble: I'm not sure calling Julia a functional language is really a fair statement. Yes it's LISP-like, but if you want to go there, Ruby is a LISP-like language in the same ways Julia is. I don't really
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by cantankerous 12y ago
I think the critique is with the implied (but not always understood) overhead of some of FP's common types of abstraction.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
That's probably fair. I should have not been so ham-fisted. I think you could probably eliminate the gun angle entirely to a game like this, but it's wholly necessary if the players opt to engage in responsible play like (presum
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Replace the gun/gun effects with sci-fi laser equivalents and I think it fixes most of these issues. Other issues notwithstanding. Doesn't seem irresponsible at all to me. The creators are just trying to run with something new a
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Random question: Do you have any suggestions for learning better knifework/technique? I feel like I'm SO SLOW at chopping anything and there has to be a more efficient way for me to work.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Which statically-typed languages are you using?
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by cantankerous 12y ago
I'm like you, I'm not sure how to assign a dollar value to this vulnerability. The implications of a broken TOR are huge for all players, especially over time. Considering TOR protects the livelihood (and lives even) of so many
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by cantankerous 12y ago
NPR is loaded with programming that isn't just news-related. This includes musical programming, comedy, special interest programs, and topical shows. Listeners to NPR already know this. They filter what they want to hear by turning
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by cantankerous 12y ago
You'll probably be looking for a Go runtime that fills a kernel shaped hole. Without a kernel, where do all your syscalls go?
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Last I checked compilation time wasn't really a thing a ton of folks worry about (myself included). Faster machines and reasonably better compilers have mostly solved this problem. I'd take zero-overhead generics over a slightly
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Hundreds of thousands of lines of Rust? Out of curiosity, what kind of software are you writing in Rust? ... And can I get in on some of that? ;-)
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by cantankerous 12y ago
I find the conflation of language with runtime in the flag example to be especially obnoxious. All the Wolfram Language looks like to me in this example is a bunch of key value pairs with some hidden calls to a runtime that costs me money
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by cantankerous 12y ago
This. It's an important exercise to explain your work without using jargon to folks outside your field. Clearly your work is interesting if you spend your time doing it. Knowing how to relate this interest and enthusiasm to others
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by cantankerous 12y ago
"There's no technical reason why this is an issue." This is beside OP's point. This is a human problem; not a technical one.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
By "get" I think you mean "accept". I don't think most people accept it because the evidence does not overwhelmingly support this statement.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
"Who will serve them? These are people just like us, they have needs and desires much like ours." And they will be served by people just like us, technologists.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
And yet up in smoke they went. Here today, gone tomorrow.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
They apologized for letting everybody down. It's hard to address the myriad of grievances that folks have come up with about this issue in a reasonably-sized letter especially when GitHub probably feels like it didn't do anything
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by cantankerous 12y ago
With respectable auditors, independence is what you're paying for. Auditors that are found out not to be independent quickly go up in smoke. Just ask anybody who worked at Arthur Andersen about the Enron scandal.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Context. The issue at hand is regarding the mistreatment of women. Of course it makes sense to frame it that way.
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by cantankerous 12y ago
> The better question is, "Should hotel taxes exist in the first place?" That question has already been put to the local electorate, and they seem to be happy enough with the status quo. Taxing hotels is a way for a locale to
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by cantankerous 12y ago
For such a mission critical application (hardware design) my mind is blown by how laughably bad the HDLs are when compared to modern programming languages. Chunks of the languages aren't synthesizeable, and which bits are/aren&#
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Higher level languages inevitably come with built in semantics that the programmer takes for granted, but can't be synthesized directly to hardware. In C, it's the function call stack. In Haskell it's higher order types and
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by cantankerous 12y ago
Same. I wonder how hard it would be to bake in some kind of local webhook system for that purpose. Haven't looked too closely at this, though.
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Obama to Call for End to Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data(online.wsj.com)
1 points by cantankerous 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantankerous 13y ago
He means that there is a generally understood semantic meaning for the functions as they exist in the Haskell Prelude. Replacing them under the hood with something potentially different makes the "meaning" of the basic functions
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The 6 Reasons Lists Should Be Banned From The Web(zacharyernst.blogspot.com)
1 points by cantankerous 13y ago|0 comments
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by cantankerous 13y ago
> it's a crime by french law committed in france Was this actually a crime or just a civil dispute?
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by cantankerous 13y ago
Sounds good. I will check those out, thanks!

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