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by cies 4y ago
> Rust has the most beautiful runtime/toolchain but a doubtful syntax. When you want to use it for the type of number crunching programs that Julia is made for. Rust is made for making programs that currently C and C++ are used for:
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by cies 4y ago
No answers though. "The Truth Is Out There" (X-Files theme music in the background)
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by cies 4y ago
Clearly. That was the main problem voiced when they started doing this, wasn't it?
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by cies 4y ago
How are "invisible aliens" not rebranded ghosts? (beings without a physical body)
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by cies 4y ago
In same vain we could ban ice hockey then :)
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by cies 4y ago
And we will live in the most boring Brave New World where all danger is eliminated because of this reasoning. Sports will be gone, only the gym survives as it has the lowest risk factor. No more alcohol and drugs. And there will be condom p
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by cies 4y ago
You do you. I want helmets for those who want helmets. I'm fine without, thank you for being considerate. The article makes a point, I agree with: don't put barriers on cycling. I agree wholeheartedly. And I have trouble with most
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by cies 4y ago
There was a commedian saying cars should be make more dangerous for the driver: "that will teach 'm". He claimed car's driver safety features made them less safe for everyone else, as driving like an idiot had little neg
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by cies 4y ago
> What's the difference from a seat belt law? You found a risk reducing law that probably does make sense. Very small investment (Volvo relinquished the patent, thanks Volvo) and very large benefit. But this "their personal ris
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by cies 4y ago
The only real argument for making it less safe is the "increased interactions with the police" argument. This seems to be very US-centric as in most other places an interaction with the police will not get you shot/teased&#x2
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by cies 4y ago
Demand bicycle safe cities! Helmets should be optional. Taking risks should be legal. > Just wear a helmet. You do you. Next up we gonna enforce pedestrians to wear air-bag suits "for their own safety", forbid roller skating,
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by cies 4y ago
To some a curse, to some enlightenment. :)
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by cies 4y ago
Have you been to Iran? I have, many times. I will tell you a little secret: in that part of the world, Iran is considered Germany (stable, rules-based, strong-govt). Compared to Canada, the US is like India: huge difference between poor and
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by cies 4y ago
I tried it and it is INSANE how you can just focus on the UX/features and not have to worry about the boilerplate. This is not just FP, this is "no runtime errors possible" FP. With Elm-GraphQL your QUERY BUILDER is even full
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by cies 4y ago
You are right in the US you can say that. But showing how the govt is criminally scheming against the people gets you in jail just as much. Ask Assange. > This “all imperfect systems are equally imperfect” is utterly detached from realit
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by cies 4y ago
Different sure, but different in its resistance to reform? Nah.
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by cies 4y ago
> 1. Hasura - DB + Basic APIS, 2. Ory.sh for Auth/Authz Great choices! 3. React on the frontend Here I'd go with Elm, and a generated GraphL API client. Here an example to play with (which btw also includes ZomboDB for ElasticS
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by cies 4y ago
Fucked up election systems everywhere. If there are basically only two parties by the way the counting works, then the those two parties can do the "approval of candidates" internally. Main difference being that one system is run
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by cies 4y ago
On a related note: the Buddhist monk that was used as inspiration for Yoda... https://www.lionsroar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yoda-ri...
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by cies 4y ago
> React + TypeScript [...] anecdote I agree that that combination it is very ceremonial. We now doing new projects in Elm as the JS/TS ecosystem simply does not cut it for me.
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by cies 4y ago
How many deaths world wide (estimated, as these numbers are always estimates) from the 2018 flu season?
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by cies 4y ago
zerohedge.com? /s It'd probably be FT for me, they follow a "just the facts" approach mostly.
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by cies 4y ago
I feel that's pretty close to Ruby and Crystal. I was actually hoping for something more out of line (like C++ and Perl) but more modern.
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by cies 4y ago
The word "strong" is not well defined in this context. But usually it is used for languages like Haskell, Idris, PureScript and Elm. Ruby does not do as many automatic casts as JS. In this regard it may be seen as "stronger&q
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by cies 4y ago
> Perl and C++ made me miserable You compare to rather new, and "geared to learners", languages to some old and know-to-be-arcane languages. I'd be curious what you think of, for instance, Kotlin and Elm.
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by cies 4y ago
> can absolutely write unmaintainable But you CAN write fast code too! And that, for a fairly high level language (in some aspects) is quite a feature, especially in the context of the safety it provides. In pure Python/Ruby you can
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by cies 4y ago
Move to better tech: going from building apps on Drupal to Ruby on Rails got a big team to understand what they were doing (MVC, web applications, migrations, DDD, fat-model, separating concerns, REPL-based development, deployments-wihtout-
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by cies 4y ago
While I agree with all you said, I hold the belief that intelligence is mostly determined by birth (probably genes). So that may be a limiting factor even when your work ethic is high.
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by cies 4y ago
> I'm skeptical of anything whose central claim is "I can easily turn front end data requests into SQL and back again in very few lines of code". Same for me. The Elm video is showing off a toy, an interesting toy, but a
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by cies 4y ago
This happens already. I'd love to add some more women to my dev team, as that has shown great benefits in earlier teams i hired for.

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