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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
I take it you haven’t seen the printer demolition scene from Office Space? /s
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
I was being flippant
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Every company these days are AI companies. Even the ones you’d least expect. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98mrepzgj7o
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
...which is basically a convoluted way of agreeing with me that there is shared knowledge one can call upon when moving between those two languages.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Yes. For example: https://claimistry.com/trademark-law-differences-across-coun...
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Oh man. That joke takes me back.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
No. You're pointing out what small-village life is like. There's plenty of villages that are still like this (I lived in one until recently). And your comment implies that cities are a relatively new phenomena despite the fact tha
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Village life isnt for everyone but what you’re describing here isn’t even remotely the same thing as the discussion we’re having about being friendly towards strangers. If you need to introduce yourself, then you clearly don’t live in a vil
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
That’s a depressingly negative way to view people who are just trying to break the isolation of modern life.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
This is where trademark law starts to get a little murky and the law will differ from country to country.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
> So what should you do? Just call it My Awesome Notepad and expect users who are searching for Notepad++ to somehow find it? Yes. Exactly that. You have no entitlement to free publicity based of someone else's hard work growing the
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
The issue is by calling it Notepad++, you're now confusing users into thinking it's officially endorsed. Which means complaints, feature requests, bugs, and even any backdoors/malware included in the unofficial version tarnis
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
No, this is just old. Pity though. RSS / Atom was a fantastic concept and it’s a real pity big tech killed them off.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
That’s such a beautiful way of putting it
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
What the fsck possessed manufacturers to come up with that stupid recessed door handle? I think I might actually hate that more than touch screen climate controls.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I’ve learned something.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
DirectX fragmented the market (it really is a pity they couldn’t work with OpenGL). But I will concede at least the API was nice from a developer perspective. Internet Explorer did everything it could to fragment the market place with non-s
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
This has been Microsoft’s playbook since the 90s. You talk about this as if it’s something new and people should have trusted them before.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Of course I’m asking in good faith. I wouldn’t have asked how you’d implement the same problem yourself if I wasn’t interested. But you also have to understand that it’s very easy for people to say “x is bad” when actual real world problems
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
You’ll need to be more specific than that. Why was it bad? How would you have written it differently?
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Can you share which parts of the code were bad?
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
That’s not what people mean when they talk about paradigms in programming languages.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
I think the crux of our disagreement is this: How much familiarity do you need to be starting from scratch? In a later comment you said the following: > You aren't starting from scratch in the same way that if you have written javas
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
> Reading slop code is a terrible way to build a mental benchmark for what's good The days of AI only being capable of producing unreliable slop code are long gone.
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
“Leaning into functional” isn’t a hard thing to learn. However pure functional is when coming from an imperative language. And that’s the point I was always making. Rust takes inspiration from different languages than Go. But there is a hug
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
> I have written production code in about a dozen languages as well believe it or not. You said 6 in your other comment. Which is half a dozen. But I take your point about the syntax being complex. That was the main reason I stopped codi
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
Scala is a great language. And Rust definitely has noticeable influences from ML. But I’d say Rust is closer to C++ than it is to ML. But, to be fair to you, I’ve not touched Rust in a couple of years so maybe my memory is fallible here?
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
You’re conflating paradigms with idioms. Go and Rust have different idioms and syntax. But they occupy broadly similar paradigms. For example, you don’t need to relearn how to do iteration like you would with a logic or pure functional lang
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
If you believe that then you haven’t spent much time working in different paradigms of programming languages. Syntax is the easy stuff to learn. It’s any shifts in paradigms (eg pure functional vs imperative vs logic… etc) that takes time t
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by hnlmorg 6mo ago
I would be very surprised if you couldn’t figure out what was happening in one C-derivative language when you’re already competent in another C-derivative language. This isn’t like learning JavaScript and then expecting to be an expert in

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