draven

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by draven 10y ago
There's a redirect to imgur if the referrer is hacker news.
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by draven 10y ago
> even riders who have ridden bikes for many years like myself benefit from pointed instruction in "press right to go right". I was taught that 2 hours into my training when I prepared for the exam to get my license. I remember
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by draven 10y ago
I was about to ask about the motivation behind these changes in the implementation language, but the FAQ explains it all (last question): http://pijul.org/faq.html Why is Scala considered "not open enough" BTW? Ju
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by draven 10y ago
> you will produce a robust, blazing fast, scalable application that's a dream to maintain and build upon. At work I'm working on a scala/play app. It was 2 years old already when I joined, and the first scala/play pr
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by draven 10y ago
I was about to suggest coordinating a bit to make a torrent for each course and avoid generating too much trafic downloading them, but it seems to be prohibited by the ToS ("You may download content from our Services only for your pers
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by draven 10y ago
I think it works well because there are incentives: pay more than the average to unlock a few additional games, and pay more than X to unlock everything. I don't know if unlocking everything by default would work that well.
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by draven 10y ago
> In France we had some old celebrity known for their very funny yet inapropriate one man show. Who would that be ? I immediately thought about Desproges.
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by draven 10y ago
That reminded me of the introduction of the Typeclassopedia ( https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia ), which states one must understand the types and gain a good intuition of how the typeclasses relate to each other (and
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by draven 10y ago
Openframeworks and Cinder are C++, so that's probably not fit for a first experience. Check out LÖVE: https://love2d.org/ It's in Lua (so learning the language won't be a big part of the whole experience) and
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by draven 11y ago
In this case it seems like a very thin wrapper that leverages the type system to allow catching a whole class of errors at compile time, like using exhaustiveness checks to make sure a function call handles all possible return values. I thi
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by draven 11y ago
As suspected by hisham_hm, I'm paid to code in Scala. At my previous job I tried to introduce some functional languages without much success. The stack was C++/Java and a lot of Python. I learned Scala because it runs on the JVM a
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by draven 11y ago
> i think people who want to program with types today most likely will go to rust, scala or f# I'm a Scala dev. I'm playing with Rust for lower level stuff, don't know much about F#, but FWIW I would rather code in Ocaml t
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by draven 11y ago
According to the FAQ it was suggested a posteriori, so technically it's a recursive backronym!
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by draven 11y ago
> I should do a veggie dive at a local market here in southwest China and show you guys what you are missing variety wise. I'd love to see that if you have the time to take a few pics! I used to live near a big open air market, and
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by draven 11y ago
> unless the vendor can provide over-the-air updates http://www.neweagle.net/ProductDocumentation/Telematics/Tele... mentions "Remote Flashing" so I guess they fix that.
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by draven 11y ago
For a quick answer check out https://www.janestreet.com/technology/ , "The OCaml difference" near the end of the page.
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by draven 11y ago
There's also The Healing Power of Mindfulness by Kabatt-Zinn at Dartmouth. There's a session at about 50mn in. https://youtu.be/_If4a-gHg_I
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by draven 11y ago
They'd rename it prime^26 or p128e.
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by draven 11y ago
Instead of pouring the bad ones down the sink, if they're not extremely bad, cook with them! I've saved some "meh" red wines by cooking a boeuf bourguignon, and some white ones to do a sauce au beurre blanc for example.
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by draven 11y ago
There are also some non-sweet Gewurztraminer, a German colleague once brought us a bottle, it was great. In Alsace we also have Edelzwicker. Those are "vins d'assemblage", ie blended wine. They can be both great and cheap. Yo
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by draven 11y ago
He mentionned Ada and Rust in his initial comment.
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by draven 11y ago
> Does it rain in France? It depends where exactly in France. As pointed out by other posters it's not the most efficient way of getting power for various reasons, so this must be mostly motivated by political reasons. I really ho
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by draven 11y ago
It's covered: "The longbow took years of continuous training to master. Not only was there the matter of the physical strength necessary to draw 120-plus pounds with one arm over and over again, but because the longbow arrow was d
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by draven 11y ago
Yep, tried to access ACM, and got "Certificate Manager is not available in EU (Ireland). Please select another region." They probably are going to roll out this feature everywhere.
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by draven 11y ago
Same here, I got around it by first clicking the translated word a second time (to deselect it) before clicking on the next word.
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by draven 11y ago
Same here (scala dev / haskell wannabe trying to go remote.) I have a feeling it has to do with the general demographics of those languages users. Python/Ruby/Node positions would be mostly filled by young people working on w
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by draven 11y ago
What alternative do you point them to ? (just curious)
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by draven 11y ago
Having the compiler available at runtime kinda helps too!
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by draven 11y ago
I got "Sorry, MailChimp couldn't validate your email. Try again?"
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by draven 11y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, webrings are great, it's sort of a list of curated related content. I loved browsing those when they were more common.

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