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721.
by goto11 5y ago
It is almost forgotten now, but the platform which carried Java to critical mass was the browser. Java successfully pivoted to server-side, but initially it was considered a client-side language. C++ was the preferred application developmen
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by goto11 5y ago
People are learning Python because they want to do ML or scientific computing - not the other way around. Python has its current popularity because of NumPy and the whole numeric and ML ecosystem. I love Python as a language, but realistica
723.
by goto11 5y ago
Microsoft introduced VBScript support in Internet Explorer. VBScript was a variant of Visual Basic and therefore a lot more familiar than JavaScript. VB was already used in MS Office and a whole generation had learned programming starting w
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by goto11 5y ago
Netscape already had total dominance of the browser market when JavaScript was introduced.
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by goto11 5y ago
Languages do not becomes successful due to their intrinsic qualities. Languages become successful when they are coupled to a successful platform. E.g. C became popular because Unix became popular, JavaScript became popular because of the br
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by goto11 5y ago
So if bands of luddites stated murdering software developers, this would not be a problem if the overall growth of the industry was larger than the rate of murders?
727.
by goto11 5y ago
This seem to be a discussion of different proposals for adding a "pipeline" operator to JavaScript. A pipeline passes an argument to a function, so foo |> bar is the same as bar(foo) Better overview here: htt
728.
by goto11 5y ago
No.
729.
by goto11 5y ago
You mean like a macro? You would still need some underlying mechanism to conditionally execute code.
730.
by goto11 5y ago
Are you praising or complaining that Python returns an object rather than a plain string?
731.
by goto11 5y ago
What are the source?
732.
by goto11 5y ago
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, the US did not have bases in in Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Bin Laden was complaining about US presence in Saudi Arabia and Israel. So even with recent withdrawals, the US presence is only back at the l
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by goto11 5y ago
> The goal of terrorism is to scare people into restricting their own freedoms. It has worked amazingly well so far. No it isn't. Not any more than it is the goal of burglars to get people to invest in home security. The goal of ter
734.
by goto11 5y ago
For the same reason people in the US call the Queen Queen even though she is not actually queen of the US?
735.
by goto11 5y ago
Especially mysteries need to be coherent and consistent, otherwise the audience will just feel cheated. In a mystery every detail matter. > Reality is full of false promises. So why not in fiction as well, Mr. Chekhov? Well, as Mark Tw
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by goto11 5y ago
Chekhov wrote short stories and plays. It is harder to apply the same principle to serialized narratives like tv-shows and comics, since you don't know how everything pans out and you cant go back and edit.
737.
by goto11 5y ago
The principle is older that Hollywood itself, so I don't know what it has to do with "new woke"?
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by goto11 5y ago
In good writing, details serve multiple purposes. Just showing a gun because it will be used later will seem ham-fisted to an audience. A good writer will introduce the gun as a character moment and as setup.
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by goto11 5y ago
No, it just tells you that somebody will fire the rifle at some point. This increases tension but does not really tell you much about what is going to happen except it is going to get dangerous and violent.
740.
by goto11 5y ago
It doesn't have any significant impact. The map was already assumed to be fake by most scholars. We have both historical and archeological evidence for the Norsemen reaching the new world, so that is not in doubt.
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by goto11 5y ago
https://nandgame.com is a great introduction to such stuff. But that is just a single layer. The problem with computing is not that the individual layers are difficult to understand, is it the sheer amount of layers. I follow
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by goto11 5y ago
Does anybody really know anything which goes on under the hood, all the way down to transistors? I think it is half a century since this was even possible for a single person.
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by goto11 5y ago
What in particular do you consider cruft? The original "standard flow" layout model is still very relevant for document-like pages like Wikipedia even if more advanced layout models have become available. In theory you can do ever
744.
by goto11 5y ago
Those answers seem just random guessing?
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by goto11 5y ago
I thought UNIX was supposed to be an example of worse-is-better philosophy which is in contrast to architecture astronauting? But you may have a point with "everything is a file", and I wouldn't say that pattern have been ent
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by goto11 5y ago
> .Net did actually turn out to be the big deal it set out to be At the time (2001) .Net was the brand for a vaguely defined all-encompassing Microsoft initiative - something about connecting everything. The .net framework was just one p
747.
by goto11 5y ago
You saw this article, didn't you?
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by goto11 5y ago
Obviously geeks always think their product choices are driven by rational thinking. This is why marketing to geeks are like "you are more smart and rational if you buy this product". Marketing is used because it works. Of course y
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by goto11 5y ago
Marketing associate emotions to products. For perfume ads it is a feeling of being attractive. For products marketed to geeks it is a feeling of being smarter and mentally superior to others. Notice how successful geek marketing talks about
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by goto11 5y ago
Fascinating. Fantagraphics ( https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/newspaper-comics ) have done great work restoring and publishing such classics, but there might be much more to discover.

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