celeduc

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by celeduc 5y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
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by celeduc 5y ago
How? Fundraising power! Horse trading! Lobbying! The entire system of government being corrupted by corporate money from top to bottom.
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by celeduc 5y ago
I'm not surprised at all. Good/bad, un/readable code can be produced in any language. Ruby fans crowed about its beauty then created incomprehensible DSLs of awkward Yoda code. But norms and values do differ between language
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by celeduc 5y ago
Languages have varying costs of entry and mastery . The relative cost depends on what languages one already knows. But some language features are rarer and more difficult (declensions, conjugations, symbols, tones, etc). The size of the
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by celeduc 5y ago
C isn't very readable either which is why commenting is encouraged. But the Obfuscated C Contest is a competition whereas APL is literally the punchline for illegibility.
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by celeduc 5y ago
"a16z" must have an entire team dedicated to generating and promoting clickbait articles for HN.
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by celeduc 5y ago
> the reaction both from employees and people I spoke to in private was overwhelmingly positive. Overwhelming positive reaction from subordinates (whose paychecks he signs), and peers who are also tech/finance bros. Sounds like a st
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by celeduc 5y ago
Bezos lawsuit countdown commences!
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by celeduc 5y ago
Side effects may include dry mouth, red eyes, and core dumps.
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by celeduc 11y ago
I love how Bezos didn't address the reports of his own famously bad behavior, which sets the tone for the entire company. Or maybe he's under investigation by the Amazon HR department right now?