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by davidgrenier 11y ago
I was happy to read this... it seems to me that adding a compiler optimization that in turns makes the compiler significantly faster must be some kind of thrill in itself.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
I read the paper but grant my ability to understand it is limited. My interpretation is built on what's discussed at the end of Kahneman's Ted presentation: https://youtu.be/XgRlrBl-7Yg?t=1015 Is that why the down
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
Are you suggesting the previous employer is allowed to divulge that kind of information?
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
Too bad this article makes the flawed assumption that getting a higher salary is just better. I recommend reading Kahneman... here: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full.pdf
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
My cue was to vote against strategies that seemed built on a rewards and punishments foundation.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
This piece nails it down.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
"and we supported them all the same." What does this mean? "I wouldn’t fault them if they chose to leave." What would it mean if you did?
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
Not 100% confident on how people pronounce "cock" but it's definitely not close to "caulk". Being a french speaker, I would say pronunciation is closer to "puck" with a k, so go with "Kuck".
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
And with this, I hope we'll see a race for GC pauses improvements.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
STEPS looks like a new project from 2006 with this 5-year progress report published in 2011... I can hardly believe Kay is recognized for that being that it's far too recent and none of it is mainstream.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
I had seen that video before... I found it upsetting as most of it was bragging and ranting, am I the only one who noticed? There was no material in that video that anyone could use and following the above article ( http://gagne.h
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
I will grant that I should've spent some time coding in Smalltalk by now to get a better sense of the implications of that style. I myself find it surprising when people delve into a language debate pitting a traditional imperative&#x2
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
I have no clue what Alan Kay did, except to foist the horror of Object Oriented programming to the world. But here, I conceded, I don't know. Please enlighten me.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
Wondering if outside civilization can infer the economic system based on the crap in orbit around such a planet.
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
Maybe I don't understand what you said... but I have a feeling introverts would get penalized? Have you read Quiet?
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by davidgrenier 11y ago
It's higher, but the line is flat... i.e. it started with a higher baseline but stayed stable. So the rise over time of sciences has been similar to humanities.
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
Worth noting that F# has language-support for Units of Measures and countless new languages have come since 2008 without that in mind.
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
You guys wanna make sure it crashes at run-time?
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
It's fair to say that but it isn't the case that someone can have an worthwhile opinion of something they haven't tried and a lot of people working with say JavaScript or PHP just have never tried a decent ML-style language i
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Ask HN: Testing in production after deployment
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
I would hope that it is because educated people would realize that above a certain amount, an increase in revenue is only an incentive to something illusory. http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full.pdf&a
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
One big problem is programmers tend not to write programs from scratch, rather they work in existing systems. And even though I'm a static-typing proponent, I will concede that developer productivity is likely to correlate a lot more w
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
Buy an organic flaxseed oil. You don’t want to burn toxic chemicals into your cookware to leach out forever more. That sounds deeply unscientific.
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
Compiles your client-side F# code to JS such that you write all your code in the same programming language. You get to leverage the sophisticated type system of F# for your client side code and get transparent interop between front-end and
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
Personally glad to be free of all that goofiness, Angular, JS or what have you. http://websharper.com/ Almost two years in production. I even had the opportunity to try the F# Type Provider for Sencha Architect and although
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
As all abstractions are leaky I have to concede that it has to be, but considering the size of the abstraction it's actually surprising how little gets in the way of getting things done (short of getting the hand of it for which the le
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
I've been using WebSharper in production for 20 months now and I wouldn't consider doing web development any other way. People have mentionned that such abstraction generally become more trouble then they are worth but I completel
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by davidgrenier 12y ago
Here's a small script to access the Marvel Comics API from F# Interactive using the FSharp.Data JSON Type Provider: http://fssnip.net/mC