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by dscrd 14y ago
Nah. Just like the business side is constantly trying to figure out ways to not have to use programmers anymore, Haskell is all about trying to figure out ways to make mathematicians more useful
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by dscrd 14y ago
" Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. " -- Tho
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by dscrd 14y ago
>Does anyone else think it's a crime that Google, Apple, etc. avoid paying corporate taxes and they should be stopped? Well, technically, if something has been declared a crime then doing that is a crime... Is dodging taxes wrong? Of co
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Hmm, there's something wrong with Macbooks' performance. My lenovo laptop running Linux with a very modest cpu (AMD E-450 APU) gives out 1 sec / 0.17s. Then again, perhaps the browser technology matters more than anything else: I'm running
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by dscrd 14y ago
We now theorize that on Easter Island, the societies that presided there destroyed their island's environment to such an extent that they themselves were essentially destroyed. To prevent that from happening, it would have made no impact if
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>Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is exactly about! After a decade of trying to "get" Haskell, I have to say that they are doing an awful job at it.
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At least it says that Go works for replacing legacy apps that are using deprecated libraries and making false assumptions. There are tons upon tons of such programs in the world.
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By your argument, C++ is controlled by Bell Labs.
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I really don't get why people continue to bang their heads against the wall that is Microsoft. We have plenty of better options, why them?
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by dscrd 14y ago
"You might be saving 11x on an Azure instance, but your ops time and staffing requirements will cost more than that." Could you elaborate on why you think this is true? It seems to me like Microsoft baseless propaganda from last decade.
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It's also very amusing for the real translators who have been F'd in the A seriously in Finland for the last few years.
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"The misconception about meditation is that it requires one to give up everything and sit silently." How I think it, giving up everything and sitting silently is a form of practice. You cannot be in-present with whatever activity you do if
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About lending... it makes no sense in digital world. Copying is another thing, however.
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Well, things change. Some years ago, nobody took MMORPG experience seriously (even thought it to be a bad thing), but these days, people get management positions because of it.
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Hmm, does all this imply that a blue-collar IT-workers' class is rising? When I was working during the summers at construction sites in my youth, I noted that everybody all the time complained about the impractical decisions the engineers a
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by dscrd 14y ago
When was it ever "needed"? What could not exist without Java?
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I'm pretty sure they're just burning plants for energy.
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I think you might be misguided in thinking that people should work twice as hard or as long. Isn't the most important factor how much and what they're putting out?
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You really think the Islamic world, over 1.5B people, think of Bin Laden as a hero?
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Perhaps depending on how important it is for that piece of code to be flawless, but generally yes. The upside of all that is that you can craft a piece of code to be practically flawless, since you know how the libraries you are using are
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Really, if you wanna complain about something that's in Rails and not in Django properly, talk about database migrations.
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Having developed software on both Rails and Django, I prefer the latter. Reasoning: python's community seems more professional. They have well-defined language change and enhancement processes (the PEP), good docs online, almost every ques
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Are there any books out there that describe how to efficiently use PostgreSQL's object-relation techniques?
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Everything else you said I'll grant with "we have differing opinions" except "The make tools are not part if[sic] the language and irrelevant" No, they're quite a lot more than just make replacement. And definitely not irrelevant!
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You forget the fact that Go is a young language while modern C implementation has to support several standards, countless extensions and probably decades of cruft in the codebase. Additionally, if you factor in that go includes a tool that
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We are the knights who say NIH!
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Microsoft and Amdocs Software Systems Limited Sign Patent Agreement(microsoft.com)
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What if I told you that you're not supposed to be excited about your programming language?
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It obviously does not affect everyone in the same way, but as a generalization, I would say that becoming a parent clearly makes one a more responsible person.
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"5 points". Figures. Everybody here wants to be part of that elite?

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