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by extempore 10y ago
Paul Phillips here. I searched my tweet archive for my tweets about Go. Draw your own conclusions. - Kill me before I look at go. - Nobody shot me first so I looked at go. Sigh. After maybe an hour of go I was ahead of where I was after a w
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by extempore 10y ago
For any who wish to better understand this important point, see https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/the-real-po... (including the comments)
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by extempore 10y ago
That was Metaspy, part of Metacrawler. Source: I wrote Metaspy. That was almost 20 years ago!
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by extempore 11y ago
He means best-known, not best known. It's a statement about which is better known, not which is better.
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by extempore 11y ago
This is such an interesting choice of example because this particular implicit is baked into the language, and the discomfort you feel is a fine measure of how good an idea this is. Last I checked there was no way to turn it off. scala&
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by extempore 11y ago
> But I would really appreciate it if anyone else has more thoughts about how to filter out images that do not contain people :-) Google allows image searches to be filtered by is/isn't a face. I think you could tap into that
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by extempore 12y ago
"Criminal" is definitely the word to use when it comes to applescript, though maybe not in quite that way.
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by extempore 12y ago
Recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Then-Thought-Was-Fish/dp/0985318139
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by extempore 12y ago
The purpose of criminalizing such activity is not to discourage people from engaging in it. It is to guarantee that everyone is a criminal, thereby ensuring that leverage is always available.
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by extempore 12y ago
I am intimately familiar with your work on scalac, and that's all I can bring myself to say about that.
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by extempore 12y ago
That's right, I'm the stodgy conservative one and martin is the fearless innovator. Where is this version of the movie playing? I'd enjoy seeing it. Your second paragraph lands somewhere between completely wrong and "not
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by extempore 12y ago
Dotty is unlikely to attain relevance - for me or as a future version of scala - because there's no reason to expect it to be any less of an implementation nightmare than is scalac. It is being written by the same person, applying the
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by extempore 12y ago
Yes, MPS and "language workbenches" in general are chasing something similar. Ideas like these are entirely in the details though, and so far I haven't found anything which does it for me. I could easily be missing it, in par
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by extempore 12y ago
There is "a spec" yes. Now let's see someone implement a compatible implementation based on that. We're not talking about fiddling at the boundaries here. For instance type inference is completely unspecified. There is n
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by extempore 12y ago
Martin has been determinedly ignoring me for so long (at least two years, probably more) I've pretty well forgotten it was ever otherwise. He is undoubtedly correct that ignoring me achieves better damage control than any active respon
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by extempore 12y ago
I will continue to merge from scalac for as long as I can, because with no meaningful specification it is the only way to retain compatibility. I didn't say I'm dropping reflection, I said I'm dropping the scala-reflect layer
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by extempore 12y ago
> Paul, why do you say it's wrong that Float(Long.max - Int.max) is equal to Float(Long.max)? I don't. You have inserted coercions. I'm aware of how many bits things have. It's hard to make it through five years on a
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by extempore 12y ago
For the record, martin has never hired me for anything. I co-founded a company with him.
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by extempore 12y ago
> I would actually say that he is making it worse, in some respects. Many, actually. Oh, for sure. The key though is that the value of "it" which I am making worse is not a value of "it" which I have any interest in m
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by extempore 12y ago
I also vote for both.
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by extempore 12y ago
Typesafe hasn't lost my confidence. Typesafe has been responsible for important progress which is already being taken for granted. People either have forgotten how low assurance was in the 2.8 days, or they weren't using scala yet
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by extempore 12y ago
It's not a question of whether they should exist at all but of whether they should infiltrate the collections hierarchy to the extent that someone has to maintain code which looks like this. And there's plenty of it: this is only
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by extempore 12y ago
The offhand dismissal of Raymond Chen as an "incompetent programmer" captures the hacker news zeitgeist.
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by extempore 12y ago
I gave a talk recently which has a premise the importance of flow state. Linking into the middle of it: http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/keynote-lambdaconf2014/1... I take the position that a slow compiler exac
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by extempore 14y ago
Yeah, it's configurable between "Demand my password again if 15 minutes has passed" and "Demand my password again immediately." You can tell you're going in the wrong direction when you first have to "enable restrictions" hoping to relax th
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by extempore 15y ago
It translates to myObk.explode(10).times.
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by extempore 15y ago
toIndexedSeq takes a type parameter (I'm not sure why - it appears unncessary) which means the result of toIndexedSeq is not known when it is attempting to infer the Ordering. toSeq doesn't take one, it's known to be Seq[Int]. The other lo
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by extempore 15y ago
> Some things that should be simple and straightforward, like iterating through an array, are impossible. Impossible? array foreach f array map f Or if you miss java enough: var i = 0 while (i < array.length) { f(arra
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by extempore 15y ago
They have of course spurned your counsel about catering to windows users throughout the last decade, all the way from "close the stores and give the money back to the shareholders" to somewhere in the neighborhood of the most successful com
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by extempore 16y ago
If you lose it you might look on amazon, where you can find this book with four different covers. (!) http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp_27...

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