cutler

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by cutler 5y ago
There's nothing about Python, compared with Ruby, that gives it any advantage, numerics or otherwise. Ruby's C ffi is just as powerful as Python's. It's all just a first mover phenomenon. Python is the VHS of programming
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by cutler 5y ago
Although Dart's creators have pedigree it's identity is somewhat confused. It started out as an alternative to Javascript for the Chrome browser then Google abandoned that goal and adapted it to be more JS-compatible. That may be
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by cutler 5y ago
Not to be confused with Kraken JS https://krakenjs.com .
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by cutler 5y ago
In practice how is Dart functional? All I see in Flutter is classes all over the place. It's like no-one learned anything from the evolution of React and the decline of Angular.
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by cutler 5y ago
Horrible html syntax. No thanks.
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by cutler 5y ago
You only need enough Java to read the stacktraces and that's being worked on by the Clojure core team.
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by cutler 5y ago
Not so. Most Clojure code doesn't access Java at all. So long as you can read a stacktrace that's all the Java you need.
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by cutler 5y ago
As soon as you see a Builder a Container is sure to follow then you need a Factory for your Containers and a Proxy to mediate access to your Factory. Alternatively you can opt for Clojurescript and never have to deal with any of this crap.
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by cutler 5y ago
All available with Clojure plus you get the JVM.
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by cutler 5y ago
The ultimate capitalist's dream.
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by cutler 5y ago
Template::Toolkit (Perl) and Middleman (Ruby).
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by cutler 5y ago
Because we live in an age in which DIY/solo development isn't respected anymore. Devs today think nothing of filling-up 500Mb with node modules just to generate a static site. I've even seen SSG's in Docker images.
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by cutler 5y ago
Investor or parasite?
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by cutler 5y ago
Even better - ban profit on property sales.
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by cutler 5y ago
There are plenty of people starving in the UK. Food banks can't keep up with demand. There are also the "new homeless" who once had stable jobs but are now part of the gig economy. Some are out on the street but most are couc
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by cutler 5y ago
Market investment, ie. where little new value is added, is gambling dressed up to look respectable. It's all about getting something for nothing which is the root cause of all our economic ills.
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by cutler 5y ago
Marx's analysis is as relevant today as ever. The expansion of capital seeking ever-increasing sources of surplus value has left most of us as nothing more than serfs subject to the whims of landlords.
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by cutler 5y ago
Agreed. I've never understood this assumption that one is entitled to get something for nothing merely by virtue of owning a house. Investment is just another form of gambling dressed up in the garb of respectability..
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by cutler 5y ago
The same applies to the whole rented sector. We're all serfs.
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by cutler 5y ago
Anyone remember Fair Rent tribunals in the UK? Abolished by the Conservatives in the late 80s along with higher education grants. The 70s and early 80s were a golden age for more than just music.
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by cutler 5y ago
And driving wages down is the answer to what, exactly?
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by cutler 5y ago
For me the most interesting compilation target for Clojure is Dart. Writing Flutter apps in Clojure would be the dog's spherical objects. David Nolen thinks likewise and has commented on it in a recent defn podcast. Christophe Grand a
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by cutler 5y ago
Marx predicted that capital could never be satisfied and was compelled to seek new sources of surplus value in the process of which labour itself would become surplus value and that wages would be consequently be driven down. What we are wi
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by cutler 5y ago
Well, he was a student of Hegel's and described his work own work as "turning Hegel on his head". As for the other two it's conceivable these influences may have been formative during his student years.
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by cutler 5y ago
Philosophy encompasses much more than the personal subset. Mark and Hegel dealt with the forces of history, for example. Wittgenstein with how language frames the boundaries of knowledge. Orthodoxy is a comforting narrowing of options. The
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by cutler 5y ago
Marx is as relevant today as ever. Dialectical materialism gets to the root of what is driving the world over a precipice.
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by cutler 5y ago
Read everything 4 times? How many lifetimes are we talking? Does the author sleep?
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by cutler 5y ago
Are you saying a Netflix sub comes with a VPN setup or something? Please elaborate.
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by cutler 5y ago
Ford paid his workers decent wages so that they could afford to buy his cars. Low pay leads to economic ruin in the long run - a fact the UK is now waking up to.
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by cutler 5y ago
The author needs to spend some time in one of the many economic wastelands of the world. Many forms of material scarcity are just around the corner as the consequences of global warming start become apparent. Add to that stupid exercises su

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