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by h_r 12y ago
This line of reasoning remind me of new-age "theorists" talking about how quantum physics supports their view. The fact that people use words imprecisely or nonsensically does not somehow automatically make their formulations reas
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by h_r 13y ago
I had this happen to me years ago while driving on an isolated stretch of highway with no streetlights or other ambient light. Suddenly the engine cut off and it was completely dark while rolling down the highway. Needless to say, it scared
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by h_r 13y ago
I think he's saying he likes the type inference in addition to the static typing (no inference in Java).
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by h_r 13y ago
I understood the "open" comment to mean "open to modification and extension", independent of whether it is dying out.
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by h_r 13y ago
Or... it's more like makefiles with a lot of shell scripting sprinkled throughout.
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by h_r 14y ago
Wouldn't a bicycle be a lousy transport during the winter or when it's raining? Or when you need to carry something like a suitcase to the airport that's 20 miles away? Your reasoning seems to be incompatible with a bus system too.
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by h_r 14y ago
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentia...
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by h_r 14y ago
I've been learning Haskell lately but I've seen the same idiom in other functional languages. I was struck by two things you said: you have to know cons'ing to understand x::xs and each symbol, x and xs should be unambiguously named in isol
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by h_r 14y ago
According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/10/29/f... on p.36, ipc between apps is blocked for Win 8 Store apps. If this is required by an application, you have to run it in the desktop. Deprecating the desktop won'
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by h_r 14y ago
Well... you would have to trust both the gem author and those who might have compromised an author's credentials. And my understanding is that the install can easily be running under a different set of credentials than normal use. (not a Ru
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by h_r 14y ago
As others mentioned, Clojure makes it fairly simple to generate a normal Java class containing your Clojure code. In addition, you can access clojure.lang.RT to run your Clojure function directly, like this: RT.loadResourceScript("pkg1/pk
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by h_r 14y ago
This comment packs a lot of confusion into very few words. You're conflating a factory abstraction like Spring with dependency injection. void foo(Reader r) { / do stuff with r / } ... foo(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/log.txt"))); Th
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by h_r 14y ago
C# has closures but why do you say it has first class functions? I'm pretty new to C# but I thought all functions still must be members of a class. Yes you can pass delegates to, or return them from, a function but they cannot stand alone.
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by h_r 15y ago
Yes that's right. Not that I don't believe in minimum wage, per se, but that I don't believe in laws generally that prevent people from interacting with each other in accordance with each person's self interest. Or if I want to avoid pedant
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by h_r 15y ago
I must not understand what you're asking here but what's wrong with that? If someone wanted to work for $3/hour, why not let them?
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by h_r 15y ago
I don't get this attitude toward SO. Most of the people who go there get the answers they seek, including experts with questions outside their domain of expertise. I hear all sorts of people fretting about how to give back to the community
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by h_r 15y ago
It will be most effective to grow the language from the bottom up by: propagandizing the benefits among developers, building bridges to other technologies (simple APIs), befriending other alternative language communities who are selling the
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by h_r 15y ago
Censorship is using legal force, physically if necessary to shut you up. It isn't simply refusing to provide you a platform.
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by h_r 15y ago
He said hypocritical, not incoherent.
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by h_r 15y ago
What about the following sentence? "At no point do we or should we say, `Now that we have defined an abstract group, let's assume they exist'. Either we can demonstrate they exist by constructing some, or the theory becomes vacuous." Doesn'