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by eduction 3y ago
I was replying to a very unuanced article, with the headline “DSLs are a waste of time” and no further hedging on that headline in the text. So ya, I knocked down the argument on the argument’s own (very broad) terms. No need for the person
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by eduction 3y ago
I don’t think it makes any sense to dismiss regex “because it’s so universal” — you’re disqualifying a DSL because it’s successful, then saying all DSLs are unsuccessful. It’s just a tautology at that point, same as the article. (And SQL is
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by eduction 3y ago
True! I think used Perl about that long, and probably Ruby after that. And those are (obviously) general purpose.
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by eduction 3y ago
This is a good point but also a little circular since the good vendor specific languages tend to break free — like Netscape’s (and nominally Sun’s) JavaScript :-) (and I think SQL started at IBM but I’m not sure if they tried to keep it pro
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by eduction 3y ago
We stop calling the useful ones “DSLs” so this is a truism. Is SQL a “waste of time?” Regular expressions, HTML, Makefiles, CSS (and CSS selectors aka jquery selectors)? It’s the bad ones that are a waste of time. The ones still called “dsl
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by eduction 3y ago
Microsoft gets too little credit for NT. They were effectively 9 years ahead of Apple in developing a usable multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS (counting Jaguar as the first usable OS X). Further, they did it in a way that (unlike on
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by eduction 3y ago
Are you? California, legendary NIMBYs included, built the most prosperous and popular state in the nation, with its largest and fastest growing companies, with more innovation and scientific discovery than any other part of the country, wit
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by eduction 3y ago
> ssh-copy-id This section starts out talking about how the command uploads your public key then seamlessly switches to saying it uploads your private key (which I am guessing are typos). Also that command does not just upload the key, i
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by eduction 3y ago
Thanks. So even chewy compute operations (parsing a big html page then running a complicated xpath against it) are ok? What would be an example of blocking - is it just network io? Presumably file io too? Update: I think I’m conflating a bi
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by eduction 3y ago
Is it true that these frameworks only work with async compatible libraries? Will a typical pypi lib work with them? For example, a css or xpath parsing library, or date time library - do I have to worry about those blocking and not working
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by eduction 3y ago
What does this have to do with an article about network download size?
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by eduction 3y ago
Hoffer doesn’t say bad mass movements are like that, he says all mass movements are like that, according to the article: “ Hoffer writes that “in a mass movement, the air is heavy-laden with suspicion…the faithful strive to escape suspi
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by eduction 3y ago
No one needs to have been in a cult to discuss this article, and frankly it has nothing to do with cults. Mass movements are different than cults - you are the one who said otherwise and it’s on you to prove your point (not on me to divine
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by eduction 3y ago
If they are safe they should be 100% preserved and if they are dangerous they should be 100% removed. What is the logic of reducing them by 50%? Seems obvious there is none on a practical level but I also fail to see it on a political level
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by eduction 3y ago
Your cult had radical beliefs but so did abolitionists in the early 1800s. The political meaning of the world radical traces back to a British movement of, as Wikipedia puts it, “the late 18th century to support parliamentary reform, with a
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by eduction 3y ago
I’m very curious for an example of a mass movement without clearly defined goals. Even USSR communism, Naziism, and the cultural revolution in China had clear goals. Cults have clear goals. Hate groups have clear goals. Seems orthogonal to
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by eduction 3y ago
Casting all mass movements as essentially dysfunctional, as this piece does, only works for “bad” movements like those that produced Naziism in Germany or communism as it was practiced in the USSR. Or perhaps prohibition of alcohol in the U
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by eduction 3y ago
You’re being an oaf about the strollers, the noise isn’t anywhere near as loud as for motorcycles (bizarre to compare them) and if you had kids you’d know the inflatable tires only work on large jogger or double wide strollers (and about th
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by eduction 3y ago
Your thinking on these and other posts is narrow minded and totally subservient to the richest people in Silicon Valley, starting with the people who own this site. You also have the temerity to go outside HN and tell people to rewrite post
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by eduction 3y ago
Your comment has nothing to do with what you’re replying to. He’s explaining (at someone else’s request) his own consumer choices. He can make his choices and the people you’re talking about can make their choices.
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by eduction 3y ago
>Great product designs require no manual, and similarly, great interfaces need no documentation. Imagine having to read a manual on how to use a coffee mug. This could not be more wrong. Not everything is easy. If a library is addressing
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by eduction 3y ago
It’s one thing to say German economy is getting worse, I don’t take issue with that. It’s another thing entirely to say it’s “no longer exceptional”. Especially while quoting exceptional stats like lower unemployment than US and rest of con
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by eduction 3y ago
[makes an authoritative list of non gov federal sites so you know you can trust them even though they’re not at dot gov] [puts that list at a non dot gov website]
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by eduction 3y ago
I hate this kind of misleading two step: “ per capita GDP in the former GDR is higher than in many regions in northern France. Unemployment, at 2.9 percent, is well below the U.S. or EU average, even though Germany took in a million Syrians
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by eduction 3y ago
At this point it’s just legalized bribery and apartheid (how many Muslims pass the screening? How many Yemenis?). The TSA should be abolished but if it’s going to exist it should be equally efficient (or miserable) for everyone.
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by eduction 3y ago
I went to DO's site due to your comment and I don't see anywhere where I can just get a server. Do you mean a VPS/Droplet? (I'm looking under Products and Solutions.)
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by eduction 3y ago
You’ve circled back to the same point the person you’re replying to was supporting: “ the problem is one of cultural context which is often not shared between generations of coders. “ There is no such thing as absolutely good code. It’s con
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by eduction 3y ago
He has the CEO’s number and successfully calls him, and through some miracle gets through directly to ask this trivial question — as opposed to getting the number from the assistant who answers his phone - sure ok but then under what preten
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by eduction 3y ago
Bad chart - EU membership has fluctuated but they don’t control for this. Mentally visualize adding in 3.1 trillion to EU 2023 to control for Brexit and the difference becomes a lot less stark (though still interesting).
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by eduction 3y ago
This is a great nearly 20 year old idea. There is at least one major flaw, which is that GPG keys can and often do expire, and this presumes “live” verification of comments and a single global GPG key associated with a domain. So once you r

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