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by freyrs3 13y ago
It also makes profiling much harder. Boehm doesn't play nice with valgrind without a fair bit of work.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
The only rational response is to weigh the benefits of developing for and using the iOS ecosystem with your convictions about general purpose computing. If you don't think Apple shouldn't have this kind of power then don't us
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by freyrs3 13y ago
And that's because those companies have made deals with Apple behind closed doors that your average app developer can't leverage. It's rational in the sense that it serves their interests.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
This was unexpected? How is not naive to expect a corporation to remove any software when it infringes on their bottomline. If you buy into developing software for this corporate-controlled walled garden of any kind you set yourself up for
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Same idea, you reduce arguments down to these repeated definitive-sounding cliches that are held sacrosanct and impenetrable to dissent.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Nerds ( also one myself ) tend to suffer from the over-generalization fallacy. Whereby they think that their local experience generalizes to a much larger scope. For instance, If you read most of HN programming articles with the prefix &quo
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Reducing software development practices down to these cute catchphrases is a bit disingenuous. If you're writing throwaway code for a client with loose constraints and a tight deadline you'll write code differently then you would
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Asking about previous employees is no more rude than asking an employee for references. If a company has a history of lots of employee churn that's a big warning sign.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
A video series or course on LYAH would be an amazing resource. On an aside, there's a bunch of great intermediate level video tutorials working through various projects here: [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/jekor&
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by freyrs3 13y ago
The equivalent chapter in Learn you a Haskell is probably a better place to learn about list processing in Haskell. http://learnyouahaskell.com/starting-out#an-intro-to-lists
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by freyrs3 13y ago
If you're designing relational databases then it's absolutely necessary.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious how universities are allocating their money such that these adjunct professors who are teaching more classes with more students, who are paying ever growing tuition themselves, are still living below the poverty l
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I'm really not pleased with what Lenovo is doing with the x230 and x240. The old Thinkpad keyboards used to be the a huge selling point for the X series line and now that they've gone chiclet keyboards like everyone else it's
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Only if you think Clojure is the natural progression of Java. This seems like a minority view though.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Are they needed? No. Are they useful abstractions? Yes. Like most abstractions in Haskell the theory is always optional.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I didn't find this talk all that informative, particularly Gilad's rant about Milner type systems is really against a strawman and shows his ignorance of the topic. The rest of the rant about monads seems to boil down to "I d
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by freyrs3 13y ago
> making language tools in windows is actually quite challenging due to the poor quality of tools. This is why the tutorial doesn't use Windows. It would mostly be a tutorial about fighting to get tools installed instead of actually
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Whether it's technically better or not is usually not in question. It's whether it's compellingly better to the point of outweighing the migration cost. For most of the community it still seems the answer is no.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Is pg also to blame for not immediately hopping on a plane to feed starving children in Africa? Just because someone is silent about an issue you personally care about doesn't give you cause to criticize them for their morals.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I find the twitter comment you linked to very insightful, it's just a thinly veiled statement of "even if the facts don't support the claims I made about your actions, you're still to blame for your inaction ". Thi
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by freyrs3 13y ago
> you don't have idea about what is a "witch hunt" witch hunt (n): the act of unfairly looking for and punishing people who are accused of having opinions that are believed to be dangerous or evil Sounds like proper usage
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Is it really deserving of the level of vitriol heaped on the issue? Even as printed it would only be mildly controversial, and even then not nearly noteworthy. It strikes me as me as offhanded comment from the first time I heard it.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
So he's a flawed human being who makes mistakes just pg and the rest of us. What really is scary to me is the group dynamic that has come out of this "social justice" movement in that it seems to fueled by very loud public co
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I'm not sure I want to work in an industry where some offhanded quip can lead to the kind witchhunt and character assassination like we saw over the last few days. Paul Graham may have some views that seem controversial to some people,
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, have you actually tried getting NumPy/SciPy working on Python 3? Because they've been fully supported for quite a while now. I don't understand how this myth keep perpetuating itself.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
A lot of people cite that lack of NumPy support is what's keeping them from moving to Python 3, I've seen this comment more times than I can count. It seems most of them haven't done their research and found that NumPy/S
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by freyrs3 13y ago
That's a workaround, not a fix.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Constraints are what prevent fallacious reasoning. It's better to have a tool/framework tell you you're wrong then not knowing about problems or believing falsehoods.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
The adoption rates do say a lot of things, but not about the claims you're making about human reasoning.
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by freyrs3 13y ago
I don't know how you're coming to this result, but it /is/ easy for people to think functionally. You can teach intro-CS classes in both functional and imperative styles and generally they pick up both styles at the same

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