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by goto11 4y ago
Some developers seem to react angrily towards anything which makes software development more accessible. That said - while VB had an amazing IDE and overall developer experience, the VB language itself had some serious warts.
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by goto11 4y ago
> Indeed, HN wouldn’t have been possible without it. This seems a rather extreme claim. Can you back that up?
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Oh yeah lots of Hollywood scriptwriters have studied Campbell, it is part of the reason all movies look alike today. I'm just saying it is bullshit that historical myths and folklore follow such a template. But blockbuster movies defin
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by goto11 4y ago
> If you buy Joseph's Campbell's claims that all myth follows a formula I don't. And I don't think anybody who have seriously studied myths and folktales buy it.
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by goto11 4y ago
> If the director really wanted us to see the film as shamanic, he probably shouldn't have used such a clunky plot device as a laser beam that makes someone enter a computer. That was my favorite scene! But I don't think the di
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by goto11 4y ago
> how do you force yourself to get through a book like Anna Karenina? Don't force yourself to read a book you don't enjoy. Life is too short. There are so many books out there. As many 19th century novels, the plot takes some t
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by goto11 4y ago
Lets say you have a Person table with with a SSN column. The column has a unique constraint because no two people have the same SSN. But the column in nullable, since not everyone has a SSN. It would be weird to expect that only one person
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by goto11 4y ago
It is not a movie about computers. The article explains it straightforwardly: It is a shaman traveling to the spirit world. It is a psychedelic adventure, using fictionalized computers and computer graphics as scenery. It was pretty gro
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by goto11 4y ago
Numeric types are weird in Java and .net. I'm more familiar with C#, but in C# adding two int's result an int, but adding two short's also result in an int. So addition is not polymorphic the way you would expect it to be. C#
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by goto11 4y ago
A media select what news to report. Even if a news media reports only objective truths, they have been selected subjectively.
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by goto11 4y ago
Is censorship via algorithms illegal? Doesn't all social media platforms do that?
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by goto11 4y ago
A single source of truth is even more critical for data. It is the principle behind normalization.
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by goto11 4y ago
Speaking from many painful experiences, DRY is underrated. Duplicate code is a major liability , and due to the natural entropy of code, duplicate sections will slowly drift apart over time. Yes, sometimes you may discover that you prematu
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by goto11 4y ago
Movie stars are not the top draw anymore. Franchises and brands are. People used to go to see an Arnold Swarzenegger movie or a Dustin Hoffman movie. Today they go to see a Star Wars movie or an Avengers movie. Actors are still important of
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by goto11 4y ago
This is not a new trend though. In Lawrence Oliviers Hamlet from 1948, Hamlets mother is played by an actress which is 10 years younger than Olivier. The article shows a graph of the age gap between leads, and it shows it slightly narrowi
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by goto11 4y ago
You do need to understand the mechanics of monads in order to do even simple IO. E.g you can write: do name <- getLine putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name) But you cant write: do name <- "Buddy"
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by goto11 4y ago
Pet peeve: The word "just" when used to gloss over something with the author don't know how to explain. Using "just" shift the burden from the author to the reader, since it signals it is the readers fault if they d
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by goto11 4y ago
They are used pervasively in Haskell, less so in other functional languages. In Haskell, you can't write a "Hello world" program without using monads, so you cant really avoid learning about them. IMHO monads are only really
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by goto11 4y ago
The problem is there is no "formula" for managing software project. People want a formula, which is why Scrum-as-a-product have been successful.
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by goto11 4y ago
First: Scrum and Agile is not the same thing. I think most people who say they hate Agile just hate Scrum. Agile ( https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html ) is not a formalized process or methodology. It is a set of simple
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by goto11 4y ago
JavaScript is another example. The core model is simple: Closures + dictionaries. But the syntax is clunky and confusing.
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by goto11 4y ago
Shakespeare's company was literally called "The Kings Men" because they had the patronage of the king.
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by goto11 4y ago
The lack of context make the quote hard to understand. Why is she talking about hands and why is she calling him a pilgrim? In context it makes much more sense. The verse is an answer to Romeos pick-up line.
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by goto11 4y ago
Regarding the genre of R&J, the confusion is because the genre names have changed meaning over time. "Romance" back then is closer to what we would call "adventure" today. Comedy basically means the characters get ma
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by goto11 4y ago
Your colleague is dumb. Stored procedures have advantages and disadvantages. For certain data processing operations it is much better to perform everything inside the database than transfer large amount of data back and forth to some extern
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by goto11 4y ago
The article probably means: Define anything as non-nullable which can be non-nullable. Unfortunately SQL defaults to nullable, so there is a tendency to define too many columns as nullable. Normalization can also reduce the need for nulla
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by goto11 4y ago
> Easy code reuse? No. It is hard to argue against the Java ecosystem of libraries.
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Go was created by Google, a larger corp than Sun ever was.
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Learning a language is the easy part. Understanding code (which you didn't write yourself) is the difficult part.
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Note that the movies was based on a successful TV-show, so it was kind of a reboot.

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