dscrd

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   by dscrd 13y ago

   >In my experience, life gets much better after the end of high school, because in my experience, adults don't bully adults [1]. And if you are bullied, you can generally leave. In my experience, life does get better but also one&#x2
2. 182.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   The new IT slum of the world, Finland, is buying a new system that is based on MUMPS. It's almost amusing to think that only a decade ago we were thought of being pioneers of IT. sigh In a sane society, this would mean that there&#x2
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   by dscrd 13y ago

   I wonder if Linus has ever tried better languages.
4. 184.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   Reminds me of Ted Nelson's Zigzag, only he had N dimensions and a cell structure. http://xanadu.com/zigzag/
5. 185.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   How many units did Palm and HP sell of the Pre series before collapsing? And everybody liked that platform too.
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   by dscrd 13y ago

   https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode This global minor mode introduces vim-like command mode without really changing emacs keybindings or conflicting with existing programs too badly (like I've seen emacs vi-mode
7. 187.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails). Lines of code comparisons do not scale between programming languages.
8. 188.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   "If I were not hooked on cigarettes, as a smart, otherwise disciplined person, I'd be more sympathetic with this libertarians on drugs." Ok, then... if you could do any political change in the society without stripping essent
9. 189.▲
   by dscrd 13y ago

   Is it in America?
10. 190.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    Of course, if you want a cool phone in 2013 that's built mostly on open-source software, there's Jolla. Wayland + systemd + pulseaudio + QT... they're working with the Linux community instead of against it.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Most individual Indian developers I have worked with have been good developers -- not to mention good people. But at the same time my experience has been that as a group they tend to fail at an alarming rate. That's why I'm now th
12. 192.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    They allow dynamically typed methods when you need them. Why does that make you sad?
13. 193.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    Or perhaps he doesn't choose to but has a mild Asperger's.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Just recently, I needed a concurrent map for my project. I looked for a library and started using it. Fast forward a bit and I realized the map was completely untyped. Fast forward a slightly longer bit and I realized (perhaps wrongly? Enli
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Perhaps it's still questionable whether his work will have any actual effect on the industry as a whole, as opposed to just academia.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLGH0VHUVs Red Letter Media's take on "Into Darkness". Yes, even as an action flick it sucks.
17. 197.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    >I didn't say I was angry. I said a new language that repeats past mistakes again is sad. You do realize that these so-called language design mistakes seem to have no correlation on how successful a language will become? >when we co
18. 198.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    > Seriously??? How is any different than people in any country in the world. Do you think voting matters or is significant even in a country like the US. How many times were the US citizens able to prevent their country from going to wa
19. 199.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    Ok, then I just did not understand that part yet.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    I think there's a typo under "good, pending and Invariants"? Isn't the caption supposed to be "not okay / (x=1 should be in pending or good)"
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    They're absolutely out of their fucking minds if they think this is a good idea. People are already slowly oozing towards better operating systems, and if they actually manage to remove the possibility to run their shitty OS without any cos
22. 202.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    Arch tends to follow the latest ghc and cabal-install, not the Platform.
23. 203.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    And HyperDex only supports them via a proprietary plug-in.
24. 204.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    "functional languages" is a rather wide concept, but I would accept "Why this particular aspect of functional languages will never catch on". Many other aspects have already been assimilated by pratically everyone.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Incredible amounts of money?
26. 206.▲
    by dscrd 13y ago

    Does RethinkDB do multiple atomic updates?
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    This was just on hacker news: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/27755.aspx Although it's kinda debatable how much Go can be blamed about these failures.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Hyperdex looks good, but I'm personally a tad alarmed by them including transactions only as a proprietary plugin at undetermined cost.
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    Since you felt free to generalize us parents, I will feel free to tell you that people without kids are generally way behind us parents in terms of maturity. That might not matter in entry-level jobs, but is quite essential when you climb
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    by dscrd 13y ago

    9 hours / day is about 3 hours / day more than what has been confirmed by studies to be efficient for a knowledge worker. So if you're working over 6 hours/day, you are most probably wasting your employer's time and your own life. Infrequen