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by courtf 13y ago
Yeah agreed, wasn't trying to cast doubt, mostly just pontificating.
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by courtf 13y ago
Honestly not trying to be a brat here, but I do this a lot myself, and I'm no Ken. Sometimes sitting back and just examining the symptoms of a bug can help narrow down the context that it was likely to have arose from (if you know the
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by courtf 13y ago
I forget which blog review of Go I was reading, but the summary (paraphrased) has stuck with me: "I came to Go expecting the elegance of a ballerina, and was surprised to discover the grace of an experienced bar-room brawler."
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by courtf 13y ago
What cruel fates conspire to tease man with this fool's existence? The solemnity of the grave seems a comfort when faced with the endless torments of a life of gaiety. If only the dead could speak aloud their regrets, that we might co
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by courtf 13y ago
Just to nitpick a bit, voter turnout was nowhere near 100% in 2008, so no, we can't say that 52% of Californians were toxic in 2008 (not counting LA obviously). The types of donations that went into the pro Prop 8 campaign helped fuel
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by courtf 13y ago
>what exactly is this position everyone keeps ascribing to him? That he doesn't think gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Was this a trick question? > What's wrong with it being a deeply-held belief?
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by courtf 13y ago
I've been using the community edition of IntelliJ for years now, primarily for Android work. I can't imagine switching back to Eclipse, and the switch to IntelliJ was not at all difficult. The Android plugin for IntelliJ does a
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by courtf 13y ago
I would venture to guess Tom. I certainly don't know for sure, but he has a wife (don't know about PJ's marital status) who is herself a founder/CEO and wouldn't raise eyebrows spending time working at the Github of
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by courtf 13y ago
Pretty fascinating, I didn't realize there were any links between depression and inflammation. In addition to suffering from depression starting at a fairly young age, I also have allergic reactions that result in inflammatory response
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by courtf 13y ago
Fair enough, the syntax is rather pleasing.
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by courtf 13y ago
All of the praise here for scala can be applied, verbatim, to Java itself. Some of the concerns are no different than Java (UTF-8), or are actually not a problem there (intellij IDE vs eclipse). While the comparison to dynamic languages is
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by courtf 13y ago
I feel a certain amount of empathy for the author, mostly due to having been adrift through some lengthy segments of my own life. I will only say that spending much time navel-gazing is a largely futile exercise, particularly when the fruit
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by courtf 13y ago
I don't mean to go off topic here, but what is it with postings on HN that have blatant typos in the first sentence? I think this is the third time today I've seen it, and it's starting to make me paranoid. Is this some kind
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by courtf 13y ago
I adore elegance, but over time have come to understand that edge cases tend to creep into those "leaky abstractions," and you can find yourself unraveling things, at least partially, in order to solve bugs. There's no shame
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by courtf 13y ago
Relevant: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/21/through-good...
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by courtf 13y ago
Not at all what I was implying. Not everything is so black and white, yeesh. It's getting so a guy can't pontificate without having a bunch of pre-conceived positions applied to him before even getting the chance to... oh wait,
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by courtf 13y ago
use the market place to correct them A rather fragile business plan, perhaps not in 2013 USA, but certainly elsewhere in the world and historically. The libertarian argument always seems to assume rational actors playing in ideal conditi