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by djur 3y ago
> the state of the art in JS has so evolved as to make further such work mostly unnecessary, or so I infer from its more-or-less absence over the last decade or so at least. That Ruby still requires such explainers be published in 2023 a
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by djur 3y ago
How does this syntax make code slower and more error-prone? According to the article, it actually saves allocations in common cases.
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by djur 3y ago
When is the last time you used Ruby?
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by djur 3y ago
Unlike JavaScript, which only has, uh, three (functions, arrow functions, and methods).
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by djur 3y ago
The ergonomics of passing anonymous functions in JavaScript as originally released was awful, as was passing "keyword arguments" as objects. That's why arrow functions, async/await, and object destructuring were added to
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by djur 3y ago
The language didn't have keyword arguments at the time it was originally created (nor did many other languages). The use of hashes as a way of simulating them was popular at the time (I've seen the same in Perl) but it was a good
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by djur 3y ago
YouTube has had ads forever. It's never been free.
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by djur 3y ago
I agree. If you watch a lot of YouTube it's a great deal. Way cheaper than cable.
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by djur 3y ago
Why does that matter? The process of budgeting is the same in public and private organizations, including the unpredictable elements that result in overestimation and padding. The source of funding doesn't affect that. Federal governme
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by djur 3y ago
The Japanese release was for the Super Famicom. It is reasonable and correct in this context to use "original" to refer to the English localization, especially since the game was released almost simultaneously in both markets.
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by djur 3y ago
The database product came later in Infocom's life. The Z-machine was designed specifically to port Zork. Jimmy Maher covers the birth, life, and death of Infocom in great detail: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01&#x2F
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by djur 3y ago
"1996 Super Nintendo game, originally subtitled Legend of the Seven Stars" Is this what you're referring to? The original SNES release did have that subtitle: http://thevideogameproject.com/suprpgsnesdisplayon
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by djur 3y ago
It's not surprising that you would find a game boring if you've only played the first 10 minutes of it 50+ times, but you might enjoy it more if you stick some of those 10 minute sessions together and try getting past the tutorial
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by djur 3y ago
The analogy isn't valid. If your startup fails because the people you hire steal from the company, you have legal recourse. If you lose money because you invest in companies that underperform, the SEC won't intervene. No markets o
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by djur 3y ago
What does any of that have to do with whether it's a "coup" or not? "Coup" has an implication of illegitimacy, but by all accounts the board acted within its authority. It doesn't matter if it was an ill-advise
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by djur 3y ago
There are some people who complain that JRPGs take away too many obscure menus.
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by djur 3y ago
I thought the NES translations were fine. They were a little more formal than the tone of more recent translations, but they felt very friendly and literate compared to the terse messages you got from the contemporary Final Fantasy games.
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by djur 3y ago
Nintendo also dedicated an issue of Nintendo Power to a full strategy guide for Final Fantasy, including a surprising amount of new (heavily Westernized) art depicting various scenes in the game. I read that issue front to back many times b
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by djur 3y ago
I agree with this except for one detail: EarthBound and Mother 3 especially are better written than any Final Fantasy game. (And I love Final Fantasy.)
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by djur 3y ago
Why shouldn't infrastructure programs also be jobs programs?
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by djur 3y ago
What reason do we have to believe that the underlying technology will improve enough for the product to be actually usable? Many of this product's features require a degree of trust that clearly isn't merited at this stage. An ass
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by djur 3y ago
I wonder how comedians compare to other performers, though. There are plenty of stories of musicians with problems, for instance.
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by djur 3y ago
The paragraph you describe criticizes some of the characterizations in the game and a lack of options for character customization, both of which seem to be safely within the ballpark for game reviewing. The reviewer clearly has an anticapit
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by djur 3y ago
What do you think people reading wartime coverage want to read about?
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by djur 3y ago
My recollection was that Kotaku had an entire subsection of the site dedicated to posting pictures of attractive women doing cosplay. I don't remember much political activism -- do you have an example?
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by djur 3y ago
It's a wonder that there isn't more sympathy for a group of people who say "have fun staying poor" so often they started using an acronym for it.
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by djur 3y ago
There's no real mystery. Shakespeare was a well-regarded poet, actor, and playwright in a time in English history where these were not yet particularly prestigious things to be. Marlowe died a quarter-century before Shakespeare and we
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by djur 3y ago
The problem with this argument is that there's no reason to believe a slippery slope exists. It's just as easy to go from "no tracking" to "digital colonoscopy" as it is when your starting point is "anonym
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by djur 3y ago
The primary network activity Audacity does is checking for updates, which you don't want in a distro-packaged binary in any case. I don't know if it's "looking out for users".
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by djur 3y ago
If you don't trust Audacity, why would you trust Ardour?

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