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by chickenfries 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this story. I’m sorry to hear about professor Busi. My introduction to computer science was also HtDP and your experience mirrors mine exactly. The people who were the most upset about it were people with exposure to J
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Fair enough. I don’t considering your complaints about Math.random() or division by zero to be a fair reflection of “real world use.”
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by chickenfries 8y ago
This matters in the real world question of “should I use elm” even if it doesn’t matter to the theoretical question of “is the elm language sound?”. Especially since there is only one implementation of elm that updates very infrequently.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
No the core question is “does the time and effort spent on those cases justify the cost of switching to elm?” I have to weigh the benefit of no runtime exceptions against things like having to write interop code for libraries that I may hav
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I literally have never experienced a bug because of the existence of Math.random(). I don’t think I’ve ever used it outside of a coding interview. Similarly, I don’t spend time debugging runtime errors caused by document.querySelector()? If
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by chickenfries 8y ago
The NHS is probably concerned with stability, accessibility and performance. Also I would like you to please explain why sass and Nunjucks are not good for “satisfying changed requirements” Edit: Also, are you serious that GDS should consid
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Would this be more impressive to you if it were React or Angular? Your users don’t care that it’s Nunjucks or Sass. Nunjucks and Sass are perfectly fine.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
This last presidential election was decided by several thousand votes in a few states. There were even closer local elections this year. One persons vote doesn’t ever decide things, but if you can’t see the absurdity of everyone taking that
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I don’t know anyone who does that. they might be well informed, I would have to see what they were reading but yes I would agree that 23 hours a day of news is not helpful. This is absurd.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I mean the title doesn’t help. You might even call it click bait. I think the “everyone should read the news” culture that Aaron describes is a straw man. Most people I know who read the news regularly know that it’s partially entertainment
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by chickenfries 8y ago
If all you do is read voter guides then you have delegated your critical thinking to the organization that produces the guide. I would not call you a informed voter if all you do is read a voter guide every election.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Are you talking about Iraq? I’m pretty sure the problem there was war, not democracy.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Yeah this post is literally the same argument as “my vote has never changed the outcome of an election so why vote?”
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Not if their goal is to be “lightweight” like they say it is.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Joi is much larger. https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=joi@14.3.0
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I'm considering doing Racket because it has a lot of good resources for people who aren't necessarily experts in Scheme.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
This is fine. Guessing gender based on things like name is terribly error prone. Imagine if you have a name like Taylor. But I’m sure everyone who wants to be annoyed by this will find a way to be annoyed.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
> The word “sad,” for example, scored low for both warmth and competence. “Melancholy,” on the other hand, scored high for competence and low on warmth. Why can’t “sad” be used in a “warm” context?
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Man, this issue is really damning.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
It's pretty well agreed on HN that you get what you pay for, and anyone who complains about being unable to hire good developers simply just isn't compensating well enough. Why on earth would you not want to pay a better qualified
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Why would you point that out?
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by chickenfries 8y ago
This show is pretty good, but take it all with a grain of salt and recognize that the experience of the two hosts is not representative of all engineering jobs. Still lots of good advice though: https://softskills.audio/
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I think you’re reading too much into it... the candy desk is always a republican because it is on the republican side of the chamber. Perhaps democrats just wanted to be able to grab candy on their side of the chamber. Or they wanted differ
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by chickenfries 8y ago
You just said that these “ideas” are mainstream but you admit your interpretation of them is controversial. I agree that interpreting contraception and abortion as genocide is controversial. I don’t think even the Catholic Church thinks tha
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Where are the genocide journals or conferences?
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by chickenfries 8y ago
My experience is the exact opposite. DDG works well for most things, especially programming, but when I want to find the address of a local business Google is much better, probably because they use my location.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
DuckDuckGo’s search results aren’t as good for the average user.
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by chickenfries 8y ago
Slavery has and continues to exist in countries all over the world, including America. The 13th ammendment explicitly exempts prisoners. I don’t want to get into an argument defending China but pointing out this “irony” isn’t a meaningful c
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by chickenfries 8y ago
All of those pain points sound terrible. I want to like Reason and Elm so much but it seems like the amount of time you have to spend getting these things to work with other libraries is absurd. Writing JS is not so hard that I would be mor
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by chickenfries 8y ago
I’m sure that people richer than me can’t imagine living the way I do. I’m trying to point out that if you’re in the upper middle or upper class, your standard of living isn’t applicable to everyone else. I’m trying to point out that there

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