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by ebruchez 5y ago
Maybe because the world's total fertility rate has been consistently coming down and might soon get lower than the replacement rate. [1] If this continues, the world population, while still growing due to people living longer, [2] will
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by ebruchez 5y ago
Not disagreeing, but there are a few other really good (if not great) Duck (and Mouse!) artists in Italy, South America, and other places, including Fabio Celoni, Corrado Mastantuono, and Casty.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I recently bought the complete Don Rosa Library.[1] This is published in the US and it is really well done, with background information on all the works by Don Rosa himself. This is a good sign as it means that Don Rosa's works are not
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by ebruchez 5y ago
If you think the two are actually comparable in degree, you are seriously misled.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
They do some folding, but I don't remember the "raining superstrings" part. In any case, it's an incredible trilogy. I loved it and I recommend it.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I should have read the article first. I touches on that exact question I raised above!
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> Why is everyone worried about blood clots, and not that the J&J vaccine has a crap-tastic efficiency of 66.3%? See "Why you can't compare Covid-19 vaccines": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55
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by ebruchez 6y ago
About the reptilian brain, from this article: [1] > Perhaps the most famous example of puzzle-piece thinking is the “triune brain”: the idea that the human brain evolved in three layers. The deepest layer, known as the lizard brain and a
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by ebruchez 6y ago
You forget Scala with Scala.js, which is fantastic. https://www.scala-js.org/
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I found this article on the topic really informative: https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> better designed than Scala How so? Do you mean Java in general, or just the pattern matching part? Can you provide an example where Java is "better designed"?
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I should add to lihaoyi's reply that in addition to the target environment's libraries, many Scala libraries cross-compile for Scala JVM, Scala.js, and (to a lesser extent due to its relative novelty) Scala Native. For example I a
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> It only interoperates with Java in a trivial sense. It's not in a "trivial sense". You can call any Java code from Scala, call Scala code from Java (except when dealing with Scala constructs that don't have direct J
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by ebruchez 6y ago
It might be worth mentioning that Scala now compiles to 3 different targets: - JVM - JavaScript (Scala.js) - native (Scala Native) The tie to the Java ecosystem has significantly loosened over the last few years.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> It doesn't really matter how great they are, it kills JVM interop right there ... That's extreme. It really doesn't "kill" interop at all. If you want to convert, convert. There are many cases where you are not
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> In swift everything is a statement. There’s a big difference because statements don’t return things, only functions do. That sounds absolutely awful.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> Aren't many of the recent language success stories now about AOT compiled languages like Go, Rust and Swift? Scala also has Scala Native which, well, compiles to native. It's not yet as polished as Scala JVM and Scala.js, but
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> Scala defines its own set of collection classes [...] And that is a huge benefit. Scala collections are really great. In addition , Scala also has wrappers around Java collections for interop, or you can just use plain Java collection
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I remember when Java was first announced. I was in college. I read "The Java Language: A White Paper" and I was immediately excited. The benefits touted were: - simple - object-oriented - distributed - robust - secure - architectu
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by ebruchez 6y ago
Scala 3 introduces a number of simplifications. For example, typeclasses and other constructs are much easier with Scala 3. This said, Scala always included the idea of having a powerful type system. From this perspective, it can never be a
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by ebruchez 6y ago
There is a Seinfeld episode that covers this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennium_(Seinfeld)
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> Isn't the FP community in the Scala world at war? I have heard that there have been one or two difficult individuals in certain segments of the FP community, especially 5-10 years ago. I understand that this caused the Scalaz&#x2F
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by ebruchez 6y ago
It doesn't matter much in my opinion if you start with Scala 2 now or wait for Scala 3. Scala 3 is 95-99% compatible with Scala 2. There is very little that you would learn in Scala 2, especially as a beginner, that will be truly obsol
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I am not sure how much of that is worth responding to. You obviously have a strong opinion and have been burned and appear to have pent up anger. I don't share your opinion. I use Scala, I love it, I am looking forward very much to Sca
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> I saw Scala taken over and destroyed by the FP fanatics I suspect that the above reflects a very personal experience rather than something general. I have been using Scala for 10 years and never used monad transformers. I find Scala co
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by ebruchez 6y ago
> XPath (which is procedural) XPath is not procedural. It is entirely composed of expressions that compose and return results. The closest common language might be SQL.
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by ebruchez 6y ago
Interestingly, Scala 3 is adding union types as well as explicit `null`s: https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/expl... I think that the expectation is that idiomatic Scala code will mostly
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I live in one of the few cities in the Bay Area where everything is buried, and it's refreshing not to have stuff hanging all over the place and blocking the view. Now, granted, AT&T fiber is slow to come here, but it's hard t
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I did exactly this as part of a school project back in 1996! The applet was doing the computations, and the JavaScript, with this thing called "LiveConnect", was calling into the applet and back :)
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by ebruchez 6y ago
I for one rather like Lex as an interviewer. But he did sound drunk in his Chris Lattner interview!

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