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by faaef 11y ago
I don't really see a pervasive point to this rant. It is true that OOP can be reduced to message passing, and that there's a specific style of OOP a lot of people see as "OOP", but that doesn't mean that this style
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Piping cURL into sh(grey.blue)
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by faaef 11y ago
He only talks about wise men who protect truth, so the truth being true is a given I'd say. EDIT: Of course he's talking to people who swear by the truth they protect. Instead of telling them they're wrong, telling them other
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by faaef 11y ago
Buddha about Language Wars: Then the Buddha gave advice of extreme importance to the group of Brahmins: 'It is not proper for a wise man who maintains (lit. protects) truth to come to the conclusion: "This alone is Truth, and ever
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by faaef 11y ago
It certainly beats using NodeJS. EDIT: Yea, this was meant as a reference to the coreutils-in-nodejs post on the frontpage.
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by faaef 11y ago
It's a communication medium for me. Customer service is but a subset of it.
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by faaef 11y ago
I'm not talking necessarily about elegance, but performance, safety, the ability to run on embedded devices, a widely-available toolchain and so on. Apart from that, it's great to have a favorite language, but choosing a hammer fo
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by faaef 11y ago
Apart from this being of questionable usability, why do people feel the need to solve every problem with (Node)JS? I can think about a ton of languages better suited for systems programming at the top of the hat.