eklavya

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   by eklavya 10y ago

   I don't know, types help me think. I get lost real soon without them and the reason why I could never pick up any Lisps. In Scala/Haskell I can come up with a solution incrementally and types are the biggest reason why. I always h
2. 542.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   One thing fundamentally broken on xiaomi phones is GCM. So if you are not whatsapp or Facebook (they have pre configured exceptions) and you need push notifications, you have no options. You can't even have a persistent connection beca
3. 543.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   STM is awesome but a single node solution. Distributed transactions are a hard problem.
4. 544.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   Also in the STM example, they only ever read sender's balance and never the receiver's balance.
5. 545.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   We can still donate. They ask every year, this year I did donate even if I use Safari right now.
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   by eklavya 10y ago

   I was under the impression that STM, being an opportunistic (success biased) concurrency primitive, was faster than explicit locking. Isn't it more performant? I remember I saw in a talk given where in that benchmark STM was as fast as
7. 547.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   I have no idea so couldn't say. My point was not to compare them but to say FP is big in complicated software writing be it any FP language.
8. 548.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   I find that statement hard to believe when so much complicated software in the industry is built using Scala/Haskell/OCaml not to mention so much of research. (STM is an example of how some complicated stuff is solved easily using
9. 549.▲
   by eklavya 10y ago

   Either that statement is incorrect or I am misunderstanding one of C++ or Haskell very wildly.
10. 550.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Maybe yes, You can not learn Haskell in one day, if that was your point. My point is learning Haskell takes time and it's hard and it is totally understandable if for some people that is not a good investment.
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    It's not the same thing. A similar comparison would be: - Learn Javascript before you learn React etc.. - Learn Python before you learn Django etc .. - Learn LANGUAGE before you learn FRAMEWORK
12. 552.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Maybe both are catering to different programmers?
13. 553.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    You can try https://neon.kde.org if you want. I am very pleased with it on a desktop.
14. 554.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    You say it like there was ever a comparison here since just after independence.
15. 555.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    "Typing isn't a magic bullet, ..., but it sure makes development easier and your apps more stable." That right there is the whole essence of typed programming :)
16. 556.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    My father, sisters would disagree. I only had Linux on the home computer for last 7-8 years. There are absolutely no support requirements, because it keeps on working the same way with no surprises. They can not setup windows, macOS, linux
17. 557.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Aren't safari extensions vetted before they can be hosted by apple? I am asking because the page mentions it will be available on safari extension store eventually. Will that still be a problem?
18. 558.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    I couldn't understand, can you please explain in detail?
19. 559.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Thanks!! I did open the link but it was in Chinese. I will use this exclusively when it's released.
20. 560.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    It's so beautiful! Please please make something like this for react native too.
21. 561.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Yeah even I am very curious how if ever this could be pulled off. It's a wait and watch for now.
22. 562.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    I find that claim very strange. Who is asking you to spend your money? Is paying tax or not taking bribes about mindsets? I save up and I pay taxes and nobody can force me to spend money I don't want to.
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    You need one of Aadhaar Card, Pan Card, Ration Card etc to open a bank account. I give up arguing about "nobody will have undeclared cash of more than 10 lacs". It's hard to challenge faith with reason.
24. 564.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Good to know that's a thing, I thought I had misconfigured it somehow. Waiting for the Scala IDE rebase on vscode.
25. 565.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    Mine has a single star but you may find it useful. https://github.com/eklavya/hascas
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    Ok I don't see how that was a straw man but ok, let me address the specifics then. 1) Housewives with abusive husbands - No problem, just walk into a bank and deposit. Don't have a bank account? Open one on the spot, under Jan Tha
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    You must be joking. We are a poor nation and you suggest poor people in India, living in backward areas with no banks have more than Rs. 1000000 in cash and there are millions of such "poor" people?
28. 568.▲
    by eklavya 10y ago

    I find it hard to believe that people with more than 1000000 in cash won't be bothered to deposit it in banks because they live somewhere where no banks and post offices exist. Government would be least of my worries with that much lia
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    For a family of 4 you will get 2.5 * 4 lacs exemption (from scrutiny). You only have to justify the source, right? Like if you are a farmer, you do not pay taxes and you can have cash or if you are a big businessperson you can justify the c
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    by eklavya 10y ago

    The prime minister has very openly said that real estate is next. And just wait till January next year the jewellers who sold a shit ton of gold in this period will also come under scrutiny. The only thing that is not clear is what steps if