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by dtagames 5y ago
At the end of the day, software always exceeds the ability of the hardware to run it. That's the cyclical nature of our business. Just for myself, I'd rather write to the easiest software methodology and wait a bit for compilers&
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by dtagames 5y ago
You can't. No useful program is stateless. Only examples and proofs-of-concept can be purely functional. The lambda calculus is a way to define math in the functional style. Guess what? It needs state passed in to work. The names and o
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by dtagames 5y ago
Indeed, any useful program must have state and therefore cannot be entirely functional. Only components or individual functions can be functional in style, the goal being to have as many of those as practical so that you don't touch st
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by dtagames 5y ago
Lit (which evolved out of Google's Polymer project) has many of the same goals of the Imba project and tries to reduce the spaghetti of something like AngularJS. It handles CSS by letting you define it in within an individual component
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by dtagames 5y ago
So true! It's a tough disease to catch but totally incurable. Once you have the bug, you start to pick-up code smell in anything that isn't functional. You see code and ask, "Why are we touching that?, Why are we holding on
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by dtagames 5y ago
Yes! JS and TS allow this kind of functional style which I try to adhere to. There must be state, of course, but as few functions as possible should rely on it and certainly no function should "reach" into anywhere else to get a
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by dtagames 5y ago
Indeed, but functions are not the same thing as functional programming. (We reuse so many words in this field!) What you're describing are regular functions. If those functions hold a state , they're not functional; they&#x27
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by dtagames 5y ago
I had a chance to speak with John Backus when I worked at IBM where he invented functional programming with the goal of removing some of the spaghetti and incomprehensibility of imperative and procedural code. It certainly was not an imme
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Review of Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Covid Vaccines(scribd.com)
2 points by dtagames 5y ago|0 comments
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by dtagames 5y ago
Indeed. Tech companies now silence politicians unilaterally, while governments made up of the same politicians do nothing to stop the widespread flow of toxic misinformation on tech platforms. So, who is really in charge?
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by dtagames 5y ago
The three biggest reasons are centralized maintenance, fuel, and fleet costs. Taxi companies negotiate the entire fleet purchase at one time and replace vehicles on a schedule (like rental car companies). Often, the fleet is all one brand a
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by dtagames 5y ago
It doesn't require any special "engineering" to make a ride hailing app. I guarantee you could get an Uber clone out of a high school coding bootcamp weekend. It's really that simple. "Dispatching" a message to
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George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter(docs.google.com)
657 points by dtagames 6y ago|794 comments
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by dtagames 8y ago
Nonsense. Wolfram isn't open source for one and only one reason: it depends on a proprietary cloud-based library in order to function. Without that, the company has no revenue stream.
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by dtagames 8y ago
And all of them are full view if you are physically sitting in a Hathi Trust "partner" university library. These libraries are open to the public and allow downloading and saving of the materials you browse, making the whole poi
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by dtagames 8y ago
Two interesting facts are missing from this story. First is that the TU-144 was copied from stolen Concorde drawings. Once the consortium (now known as Airbus) building Concorde found this out, they deliberately planted false information i