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by goto11 4y ago
Perl is a great language if you are a single developer. I think there is some "reverse network effect" for Perl, where people might enjoy writing in the language but nobody enjoys having to maintain Perl written by someone else.
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by goto11 4y ago
Fair enough, but you probably wouldn't call is simple.
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by goto11 4y ago
Yeah, compounding interest is part of the metaphor. As long as you grow faster than the compounding interests, you are good. If the options for a startup is the keep growing or die, then taking on technical debt is reasonable. Of course it
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by goto11 4y ago
Does Facebook have problems recruiting?
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by goto11 4y ago
Technical debt is a sensible strategy when you are a startup aiming for growth. If you become successful, you can hire enough developers to pay back the depth in due time. If you fail, the debt doesn't matter. Take Facebook: They build
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by goto11 4y ago
Everyone does lip service to simplicity, but in reality simplicity is really difficult. If you have seven conditions driving a decision, a bunch if's might be the simplest implementation. If you have hundreds of conditions, a tree of i
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by goto11 4y ago
This is the right decision. The primary reason anyone still writes Perl is because they already have a lot of existing code and dependencies in the language. Backwards compatibility is a critical feature for a language in that position. I
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by goto11 4y ago
The jury has to decide whether the evidence available constitute proof beyond reasonable doubt. Someone has to make that decision, just like you are doing in your comment.
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by goto11 4y ago
If proof was a binary thing, then you wouldn't need prosecutor and defense either. you could just have some clerk examine the evidence and establish guilt.
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by goto11 4y ago
Sure, but the point is that either army only attacks if they are 100% sure the other army also attacks. This is just not possible, since the last acknowledgement might have been intercepted by the enemy.
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by goto11 4y ago
The semantics are pass-by-value, but objects are always references, so only the references are copied. That said the JavaScript spec does not require any specific implementation and implementation may chose various optimizations.
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by goto11 4y ago
To be clear, folktales like Cinderella or Sleeping beauty were not originally stories for children.
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by goto11 4y ago
> Did you know that Cinderella's evil stepsisters had their toes and heels cut off The Disney version of Cinderella is based on Charles Perraults version, which is significantly different. An Perrault is older than Grimm, although b
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by goto11 4y ago
Backwards compatibility, as always.
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by goto11 4y ago
Programming languages are more like tools. It would be weird if a plumber and an architect needed exactly the same tools.
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by goto11 5y ago
> they are just far less likely to be caught Perhaps, but I wonder how you get reliable statistics on the demographics of the criminals which don't get caught?
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by goto11 5y ago
Pretty badly inspired then, if they thought plants and trees were created before the sun and stars. Just goes to show that people and books which claim to be divinely inspired tend not to be very reliable.
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by goto11 5y ago
The original question was if Genesis was in conflict with current science. This is clearly the case.
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by goto11 5y ago
No, it is not reasonable, because you are applying your interpretation ("created" means "made visible") only in the specific passage where you find the literal meaning uncomfortable. If you at least were consistent in yo
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by goto11 5y ago
> I'm not sure what is inaccurate about the description of this general state of affairs in Genesis. So how about God creating the sun, moon, and stars after creating plants and trees?
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by goto11 5y ago
> Therefore one interpretation of the fourth day narrative is that it describes the sky becoming clearer so that these individual bodies can be seen. It is not an interpretation which is justified by the text, but sure - you can interpre
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by goto11 5y ago
> There is nothing in Genesis that is at variance with known science This is so absurd a claim I don't know where to begin. But how about the claim that the sky is a vault which separate the waters above from the waters below? The s
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by goto11 5y ago
I don't think this is is the case for mythology in general either. Greek and Roman mythology does not seem to make such claims of absolute truth.
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by goto11 5y ago
This is the sane approach. Nobody uses the bizarre address formats with quoted strings and embedded comments and whatnot. There are included in the RFC because of backwards compatibility with legacy email systems from before SMTP.
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by goto11 5y ago
Sure, but the most common typos would just result in a wrong address which is still syntactically valid. That is why the address should be verified by sending an actual mail for important stuff. This is also the only way to protect against
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by goto11 5y ago
The original study was timing how fast developers could solve a given task. The slowest took 10x the time of the fastest. With this setup you can't really get negative results. And participants who didn't finish the task were excl
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by goto11 5y ago
It's older than Hollywood. R.L.Stevenson's The Treasure Island (1883) did a lot to romanticize pirates and establish the tropes of the pirate genre (like treasure maps). In general you will see romantization of outlaw groups soon
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by goto11 5y ago
The article present it like it purely due to western-centrism these characters does not have distinct code points in Unicode. In reality the issue is much more subtle - a discussion whether a certain glyph is a ligature of two characters or
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by goto11 5y ago
I was thinking of The Force Awakens, but I might misremember how positive the critics actually was at time. Maybe it was a bad example.
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by goto11 5y ago
Fair enough, but general formatting codes would overlap with what is already supported in rich-text formats like HTML or LaTeX. Unicode is a standard for encoding characters , it is not supposed to be a rich-text document format itself.

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