dogsandcats

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by dogsandcats 5y ago
Honestly, most of my junior-level coworkers would not even be able to do the first days without help. Those AOC tasks are training for skills most developers don't really need or train much (except maybe reading comprehension). Most co
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
> Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more/less devs of each "group" are deciding to participate. Could be also AOC getting more popular and hitting the developer mainstream more, hence sk
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
This is kind of like the learn a programming language to get a job vs expand your mind discussion If you want to learn a language for being able to talk to more people then yeah, most conlangs don't make sense. (Except maybe Esperanto
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
I am not sure if I get your point. Yes, having a small base vocabulary has trade offs and yes it is true that you will have to not just learn the meaning of every single word but also common idioms. You can be up and running very fast in To
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
That was an issue with the language Loglan where the author claimed copyright on the language. As a reaction the community created Lojban. Basically GNU/Lojban. Whether you really can copyright a language is pretty dubious though, prob
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
Toki Pona is great as an introduction into language learning. As many English speaking people seem to be functionally monolingual they could greatly benefit from learning it. It would probably be the human language equivalent of a pure Java
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by dogsandcats 5y ago
Honest beginner question: Why wouldn't I just unwrap the values first and then do computation with the unwrapped values? I get how Maybe types can be useful for parsing something or doing IO but once you get your Maybe value, wouldn&#x