hippobravo

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by hippobravo 14y ago
Well, you're right that I'm an asshole. And you're right that I'm not inline with your discipline. I'm just inline with my own discipline where promise has a different meaning, a super ordinate meaning that includes your meaning. As a conse
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by hippobravo 14y ago
You're defining a promise in terms of what is "under the hood." You actually define promise in terms of what-the-hardware-does. This demonstrates the varying levels of abstraction that we're operating at. You define promise: >A "promise
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by hippobravo 14y ago
The distinction between functional and imperative is precisely a semantic game and nothing else. Semantic games are meaningful or this blog post wouldn't be on HN. The title of the post makes it clear that we're playing a semantic game. Kis
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by hippobravo 14y ago
I'm not saying his design sense is wrong. I'm saying his characterization of promises as functional is so close to being right that it's the worst kind of wrongness. It's worse to say, "The capital of Kenya is Nairobi Central" than to say "
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by hippobravo 14y ago
This was my thought as well. Promises are declarative... making a promise is almost the very definition of declarative programming. It's not functional at all. This reaffirms my belief that blog posts are a terrible place to learn. People w
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by hippobravo 14y ago
Only the powerless public. The guys at the top seem to behave very rationally in their looting of the country.
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by hippobravo 14y ago
If there is literally no light pollution in your vicinity (like in the middle of northern canada, hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest small town) on a very very clear night it does look something like this. I've never seen the milk
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by hippobravo 14y ago
"This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity." Newspapers really aren't much better, they're mainly better at appearing to have integrity. The only real benefit of most newspapers is that the
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by hippobravo 14y ago
If Wall Street doesn't get a cut, it's an immoral business practice! By bypassing Wall Street, you're actually stealing profit from the too-big-to-fail investment banks. This threatens those banks with failure, and their failure will result
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by hippobravo 14y ago
The key is making sure that the regulated and the regulators are different people. Americans seem to believe that the best people to regulate corporations are the lobbyists of those same corporations. This would be a lot funnier if these sa