dualogy

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by dualogy 9y ago
> All those parenthesis. (Still a top objection) I'm glad for its parens. Would never have checked out Haskell (and gotten into purity&lazy-eval) if Lisp's syntax was like Haskell's (no mandatory braces except by cho
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by dualogy 9y ago
> Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism Surprise! "Education" is the tool to adapt us descendants of egalitarian (gender and otherwise), fraternalistic, communal, polygamous, nomadic ice-
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by dualogy 9y ago
They should put that in the 101 textbooks, so we won't waste decades writing billions of LoC!
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by dualogy 9y ago
Yes I usually try to stick to the current language's standard library as much as possible --- and then for DB or other interop/protocols not already in there, there's typically the canonical mature library or binding in place
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by dualogy 9y ago
I have taught myself to not feel bad about "off days". Rather than 5 days on, 2 days off like structured employment, if I "go with the flow" my body/mind/voice might demand after say 15 days on, maybe 3-5 days
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by dualogy 9y ago
> I don't want to hear the scratching of a spoon in an empty joghurt cup Well sheesh where did you grow up, Silenceville? Peaceful Springs? ;) > Your body tells you very directly what it needs and how much. True in the case
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by dualogy 9y ago
> I was somewhat disappointed to find out an object was just a struct with some functions attached > when I learned that they were just bundles of existing data types, though 'oh is that all?' Uh-huh. When I learned how
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by dualogy 9y ago
> Why do countries bother to hold gold? Nowadays, a chief reason is "because the others do, too" ;) it is also a brilliant instrument to stabilize/tweak currency fluctuations without buying/selling "too much&qu
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by dualogy 9y ago
Well, for one he has some books to sell ;)
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by dualogy 9y ago
Well, that's a telling finding. It's just "telling" different conclusions about "global wealth", "JPMorgan's market capitalization", and gold's "fair" value to different minds ;)
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by dualogy 9y ago
This Germany may have done, but "the gold crisis" / general Bretton-Woods-Exchange-Mechanism crisis brewed since the mid-late 60s and culminated visibly in France (de Gaulle I think) sending a tanker to collect their $ trade
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by dualogy 9y ago
> Definitions are how you formalize your understanding once you've developed it You probably already "developed it" if you're looking back on even just a few years of full-time coding, typically "multi-paradi
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by dualogy 10y ago
> The proposed contract listed here is a 100 percent set aside for Women Owned Small Business concerns. The Government will only accept offers from this (sic) small business concerns. All other firms are deemed ineligible to submit of
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I wonder what people will say in twenty years about our NodeJS, AWS, microservices and JavaScript systems. The same we're saying today about Object Pascal, Business Objects, Cold Fusion or DCOM: nothing at all.
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by dualogy 10y ago
> It's a good thing. Most of the time for most of the people, it's better to work closer to your problem Having a rough understanding of what memory is at a very rough high-level grasp ("numbered byte-size cells" is
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by dualogy 10y ago
> For one thing, it made me realize how similar people all over the world are. For me, it made me realize how similar redditors all over the world are.. =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Why do so many FOSS developers imitate the worst aspects of the proprietary, commercial software world? Just bubble things. Plus the youthful enthusiasm, I remember emulating and cultivating the hype speak from the late 90s / ea
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by dualogy 10y ago
I know about FB (Haxl, spam filtering etc) but what exactly is MS using Haskell "in production" for?
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I still can't fathom how to do anything real with it That's incredibly easy, of your list of "problems to attack and programs to write some time soon" pick any one and get busy. It'll feel real-world very soon
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by dualogy 10y ago
I started on my own "multi-language/multi-editor" (potentially) out-of-process "language server" (sans an established protocol) in Go (json over pipes because who needs sockets) as the MS-initiated LSP was and it se
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by dualogy 10y ago
> But I think, the long-lived, are not the best sources of information on how to live long. That's a mighty fast conclusion there, young shot! Given that historically, "most of the people were wrong most of the time", co
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by dualogy 10y ago
> vehicles for almost stunning cultural paranoia and new sectarian hatreds Expound =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
Got some examples to roughly outline? Am curious for encouraging anecdotes as a chronic (semi-willing) NIH syndrome "sufferer" in all areas I can hypothetically attack with just a laptop and a compiler..
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by dualogy 10y ago
Ah well, just go with Cortana then.. =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
SPJ must be the bounciest computing-guy-over-30 I've ever encountered. Always a refreshing pleasure to watch any of his performances =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> what would put me to ease as a shareholder is what is that "personal" reason That's easy. A "personal reason" is one that's none of anyone's business ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> and was accessed by pressing the down arrow repeatedly on the character select screen until his "down syndrome" caused him to be selected Haha. There was so much crazy humor very widespread everywhere before "PC landed&q
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by dualogy 10y ago
> On the one hand there was a lot of legal scare, surrounding MP3, patents, DMCA, export controls As with any "scares", it took place largely in the media (even there not that much, maybe the odd op-ed and tech/talkshow) w
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by dualogy 10y ago
> My rule of thumb is: if the common food category was really as bad as they say, you'd see people eating it dropping like flies, and the nasty-sounding stuff would become a public health emergency. Sounds convenient but IMHO some
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by dualogy 10y ago
Rather than handwringing over what meat it is OK to eat, just eat meat, emphasizing fresh over processed. Done.

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