dhconnelly

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by dhconnelly 14y ago
A few: - Go has language-level support, in the form of goroutines, for multithreaded concurrency. Python is single-OS-thread-only, and PyPy doesn't change that. - Go has enough static typing to help you write safer code, without the verbos
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
I think this is a little too heavyweight. Since platform-consistent UX is so important, I'd prefer to stick with Apple's tools--at least for UI development. It's usually easy to tell when an app is faking the native look-and-feel in a web
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Go doesn't "lack error-handling." They're referring to the fact that Go doesn't have exceptions; you check return codes to detect and handle errors. For some this is tedious, but has advantages (mentioned in the article) with respect to und
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
antirez via twitter: "Linus, I'm with you. Preserve your bastion of code quality as it's something rare and rapidly fading away." https://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/201065752395124737
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
"his tone is very well-suited to communicate his experience and insight" I find this statement fascinating. I was unaware that a discussion of, for example, the breast-size preferences of American males was relevant to a criticism of XML. I
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
The author's technical criticisms are indeed valid. But Linus Torvalds doesn't compare things to murderous, rapist gang members, or offer offensive social commentary on the culture of an entire nation, and I suspect he wouldn't find your co
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
You're setting up a false dichotomy. There is a middle ground between behaving like an asshole and too much diplomacy. Do you really think respectful disagreement is the same as being "overly-PC"? Torvalds is a little harsh sometimes, but i
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
The title of this post should be "how not to disagree with others in a public forum". The tone is alienating and disrespectful, so much so that the valid criticisms of XML as a technology are completely buried by the arrogance and off-topic
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Makes sense. Better to make more things instead of rewrite the compiler without good cause. I'm just surprised it hasn't happened earlier, since that's the approach many new languages take. But Clojure is pragmatic, so I really shouldn't be
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Right. But the Clojure compiler is written in Java. See swannodette's comment on my comment. Apparently self-hosting isn't a high priority right now.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
I'm going out on a limb and assume someone has already considered a ClojureScript JVM backend? Or is there some other strategy for moving towards self-hosting?
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Sure. I didn't mean to imply that Scala is not used in the real world.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Another indication of how far removed we HN readers are from the real world, where people get shit done instead of argue about semicolons.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
I think you're missing the point, which is: this attitude, which alienates 50% of humans, handicaps you, and ALL OF US in the development community, by 50%.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Integration with Docs. This is fantastic.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Right. So they're cutting the department that has graduate students, researchers with NSF Career Awards and ACM fellowships, and brings in lots of money in research grants.
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by dhconnelly 14y ago
Here's the email that Georgia Tech College of Computing dean Zvi Galil sent to the president of UF: http://saveufcise.wordpress.com/letter-from-dean-of-college-...
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
It would be helpful if you could elaborate some on why you think that Dart: - has a "we-are-from-Google-and-everyone-else-is-stupid approach" - "throws the last 2 decades of language design experience over board" because neither of those th
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April Udacity courses are up(udacity.com)
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I'm new to JavaScript, but from what I can tell, the no-semicolons style - is incompatible with existing tools - is incompatible in places with upcoming versions of JavaScript - is harder to refactor, since you might need to add additional
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
That's correct. Being an ass is a God-given right--you don't have to earn it.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
So you're arguing that all algorithms on a bounded-memory machine (that is, all of them) are O(1). Sure, but that constant in the O(1) is sufficiently large on most machines that this isn't useful to programmers who need to analyze the run
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
The article didn't have anything to do with "great" coders. The article was about having gone to an elite university and expecting to do one thing for a living and realizing that the market is against you and programming is the go-to skill
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I'm a big fan of Go, but it would be nice to see a caveat about 32 bit systems on the Go website or blog. Or at least some official warning or notice that isn't just a mailing list discussion.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
"A better solution than splitting your code into multiple files would be to re-think your code and write it better." Great advice, or greatest advice?
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Regarding the title of this submission: as demonstrated by the other comments here, it's good to have some context before you make snarky remarks about the work of others.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I teach a number theory course to gifted high school students. I've been using these notes for two years now to plan lessons and find exercises. Great resource. You can also find more materials for the same course on MIT OpenCourseWare.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
This is actually typical in most programming language communities that I've observed.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I apologize if you feel my post was "Go is great!" I wrote seven double-spaced pages, and six of them were about the strengths of non-Go languages. I expected my TL;DR that I added at the top of the post would have made that point.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
If 2,000 words is too long, there's a TL;DR at the top of the post.

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