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by hhas01 6y ago
Indeed. Programming with Functions != Functional Programming. FP is predicated on referential transparency. FP decides the order of operations, not the programmer. If you don’t have that, you don’t have FP: you’ve got procedural programming
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by hhas01 6y ago
Fairly sure that even thinking of clipping a cat’s claws is the dictionary definition of “scratched all to f#ck”. I’d also suggest that the toxo-inflicted depression will be offset by the many added joys of being personally owned by a furry
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by hhas01 6y ago
For small personal projects, I think a fair rule of thumb is: is anyone else using it? Once that answer turns to yes, you need to get your exit plan in place. And +1 for failing fast. It is failing slow that’s the disaster.
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by hhas01 6y ago
It’s true though. I’d rather have so-so technology plus great market and marketing than the best technology in the world and sod all ability to sell it. You can always improve the technology later, once you’re generating the revenue to pa
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by hhas01 6y ago
“What was the monetization plan?” From reading the article author’s failure was failing to ask that question of himself. With no clear objective or milestones, the project ate a huge amount of manpower for no material gain and left him thor
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by hhas01 6y ago
You do realize the reason people now die of dementia is because medical science and improved standards of living have largely eliminated all the things that used to kill them before they got old enough to develop it? The same goes for cance
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by hhas01 6y ago
Article title is gross overreach, if not outright wrong. IANAS, but even I know Correlation does not mean Causation. The paper itself only says “associated with”, not “responsible for”. Being an observational study of self-selecting cohor
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by hhas01 6y ago
In absence of good, hard, scientific evidence of effects above and beyond placebo, I’m gonna go with “Cos it’s easy to bottle and it’s easy to sell”. And profitable too, I have no doubt. Thanks to Orrin Hatch, US supplement peddlers don’t e
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by hhas01 6y ago
Glucosamine supplementation looked decidedly unimpressive a decade ago and I don’t imagine anything has changed since. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=glucosamine Still, I took a look at Dr Stanfield’s youtube channel (
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by hhas01 6y ago
The technical problem is you can’t effect worthwhile improvements in the terminal without also fixing the fundamental flaws below it: a huge mess of bloated, inconsistent, poorly-introspectable command executables, with only untagged, untyp
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by hhas01 6y ago
Rest assured it’s not just North America. https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...
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by hhas01 6y ago
Go read the entire thread then, because that’s all you’ll be getting out of me and probably quite a few others now thanks to your awful attitude. Programmers like you are the reason I finally taught myself how to code, so I would never have
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by hhas01 6y ago
Working on it… https://github.com/hhas/iris-script
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by hhas01 6y ago
[insert your own crying-with-laughter emojis here, cos HN’s comment form ate mine]
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by hhas01 6y ago
Well congrats on being a Grade-A douche. I strongly recommend you go find a new hobby—one you can play by yourself—because with salesmanship like that your project is already dead. https://jaxenter.com/wp-content/upload
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by hhas01 6y ago
“I use gendered language because coding is a men's job, women belong in the kitchen! ;-). No, just joking. Women are also welcome to become Citrine users. I just think the opening sentence is beautiful, it combines the concepts of male
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by hhas01 6y ago
Ouch. Sounds like they’re using a general-purpose, not domain-specific, dictionary for their translations. That might suffice for an initial private proof-of-concept, but not for a public audience. Imagine translating a medical or legal tex
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by hhas01 6y ago
“every identifier should have been strictly nouns or verbs and nothing else” Totally agree. TBH I don’t think the authors’ enthusiasm, while admirable, is quite matched by their knowledge and experience. A bit more up-front learning could p
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by hhas01 6y ago
But isn’t that true when googling for ANY information? It’s not a coincidence that big search engine vendors are also busy on machine translation. It’s not a zero-sum game/catch-22. Rather than look at where we are in 2020, consider wh
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by hhas01 6y ago
“they felt it disorienting to express in their own native language programming constructs that they'd learned in English” Trust me, going from natural-language English to programming-language English is just as discombobulating. (Been
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by hhas01 6y ago
Ah, but can it speak Emoji? Because, bless them. Not the first time I’ve seen a “let’s make coding more accessible” project make this mistake, alas.
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by hhas01 6y ago
“it seems translation is a simple string replacement. I don’t think that’s enough to cover all languages.” Honestly, simple string replacement isn’t good enough to cover any languages. Homonyms and synonyms, anyone? I suspect machine tran
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Citrine only ever cares about languages with prepositions” You’re confusing keyword/identifier localization for natural language. I agree with everyone who says NL is the wrong problem to solve, but that’s not what Citrine is attempti
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by hhas01 6y ago
Perhaps because “unfinished” offers stakeholders the opportunity to make major contributions, whereas “finished” means it’s already too late to make changes now so anything they do say will just be ignored. Yeah it’s all perception, but cul
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by hhas01 6y ago
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Not accurate; this comes off as very Nelsonian.” Yep, TBL’s original WorldWideWeb browser was read-write. And yes, it was Andressen’s Mosaic that locked in the popular perception of the web as read-only medium. However, it’s wrong to blame
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by hhas01 6y ago
“The LibreOffice project's imprimatur should be to stop existing.” 100% agree with that. But your proposed substitute is nonsense on stilts. Markdown? Please. WYSIWYG exists for a reason. LibreOffice’s problem is that it’s playing Mi
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by hhas01 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23428602
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Why is homoiconicity "very very important"?” I’ll take “What is parsimony?” for twenty, Alex. That said, I think “very very advantageous” would be more correct. If your language is a sprawling inconsistent mess of non-essential c
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by hhas01 6y ago
I defy anyone to build their error-handling logic off the back of stderr…

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