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by derleth 13y ago
I'm waiting for FORTRAN on Steam Engine.
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by derleth 13y ago
ltrace never seems to get as much attention as strace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ltrace > ltrace is a debugging utility in Linux, used to display the calls a userland application makes to shared libraries. This i
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by derleth 13y ago
I think that's a bad example, because your TryParse function can be thought of as returning a value wrapped in a monad. A Maybe monad, to be specific. In Haskell: case (tryParse s) of Just n -> putStrLn "Parsed &qu
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by derleth 13y ago
Common Lisp can do the same thing, and people typically prefer returning a product type because capturing multiple return values invariably introduces some extra syntax. Forth functions (or words, if you insist) can return multiple values
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by derleth 13y ago
If the 'point of a gun' element was the major determinant in how much currencies are worth, Zimbabwe, which had and has a military sufficient to kill its own citizens, would never have had hyperinflation.
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by derleth 13y ago
> so as a digression, which language do you think has a runtime that controls memory access better than OS? I mentioned two: Python and Java. In general, I mean any language where the runtime only hands programs valid pointers and the la
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by derleth 13y ago
If anything, it's a bug in the language design: If the client is written in C or C++, a wild pointer could potentially point to any data in the process's memory space, including sensitive key information, and from there it's
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by derleth 13y ago
> Can you explain? I am genuinely curious as two the line of your thoughts now. The worst forms of bias and discrimination are unexamined, because they can fester and influence thought and action without ever being questioned. It's
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes. I am. The fact you weren't makes the sexism all the more odious.
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by derleth 13y ago
Here's a review of GWAN: http://devopstom.com/blogish/gwan-snakeoil-beware/ Not very positive. Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109698 Contains this little com
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by derleth 13y ago
> Imagine falling in love with someone in perfect silence All primates have vocalizations of some kind. All apes have fairly complex vocalizations. Humans are an extreme case, but we're not entirely sui generis ; it's pretty w
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by derleth 13y ago
> the 'rent' vs 'buy' discussion is pure semantics. All truth in advertising laws are about 'pure semantics' if that's how you choose to refer to those kinds of distinctions. That doesn't make trut
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by derleth 13y ago
> When you get into gender, the argument can still be forced into a binary perspective by not getting much further than agreeing that some boys can be like girls and some girls like boys. Except if you do this, you can't really say
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by derleth 13y ago
Because downvoters don't win: > Come on, real men do not use macros. The sexism and historical ignorance in this sentence are in a race to see which can be more breathtaking. Regardless of which wins, meshko will look like a complet
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by derleth 13y ago
> That is all very well, but where do the hermaphrodites go? Wonderful question. Really. I just have two things which will make it more effective: 1. The preferred term is 'intersex' now. I know, but using the word everyone els
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by derleth 13y ago
From TazeTSchnitzel, who has been hellbanned: BEGIN I don't like single-sex schools because I don't think they promote healthy gender relations. I recall reading that boys at single-sex schools had much worse success in relationsh
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by derleth 13y ago
> Come on, real men do not use macros. The sexism and historical ignorance in this sentence are in a race to see which can be more breathtaking. Regardless of which wins, meshko will look like a complete fool to anyone who knows what the
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by derleth 13y ago
> you could shave a few bytes This is practically axiomatic in assembly language programming. It's just not worth it to turn you code into what you'd need to turn it into in order to make it as small (or as fast) as it can poss
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by derleth 13y ago
I'm almost afraid to ask if they think there needs to be a "feminist mathematics" as well. Because, really, the division between "mathematical notation" and "programming language" is somewhat arbitrary, es
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by derleth 13y ago
> Here in Germany, losers pay and the cost for lawyers is calculated by the amount the argument is about. Then I could be safe from lawsuits in Germany if I confined my evil acts to things that were about too little money for the lawyers
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by derleth 13y ago
> the more gadgets we have, the less we can think. True for you, but not for everyone. One of the marks of growing up is realizing that your experience isn't universal.
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by derleth 13y ago
> There are many successful companies that have been built upon cheaper rather than better, eg Walmart. In addition to what everyone else said, Walmart owns a market other companies don't seem to want: Poor people. Both Costco and T
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by derleth 13y ago
> Because somewhere out there is a competitor who will snatch up that talented person and crush them. Empirically, this is not always the case.
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by derleth 13y ago
> the number of immigrants doing these same hard work in unpleasant conditions while native-born "modern Americans" moan about being unable to find work. Are jobs that pay less than minimum wage even offered to citizens or docu
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by derleth 13y ago
> Prices going down meant I was able to buy more things at more shops. Didn't your wages go down as well?
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by derleth 13y ago
Then why was smallpox eradicated? Why can't anyone make money off of smallpox patients anymore?
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by derleth 13y ago
The point is that the typical rules in one language are completely bizarre in another. Unicode tries hard to be at least minimally useful to everyone, meaning that it has to make allowances for all of the rules. It's complicated. It&#x
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by derleth 13y ago
> How about a shadow-crowdsourced game? You know, just a forum of people hacking stuff up and suggesting new twists. There are probably multiple extant communities where such a thing could be started. SCP comes to mind for already having
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by derleth 13y ago
The Albigensians would like a word with you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
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by derleth 13y ago
> Therefore, Jesus is the boss. Meh. My boss can't tell me how to live my life. My boss's authority ends precisely where I'm no longer doing what they're paying me to do. My point is that, even in your simplified theo

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