hood_syntax

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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I've never understood this. If you have a real or de-facto monopoly, why would you jeopardize it by providing poor service/overpricing your product? That just draws attention to the situation. Keep things reasonable and it's
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Fair enough; I knew do notation was sugar for bind, but I didn't realize/forgot about the time traveling monad. Follow up questions bc I'm still a Haskell noob: Do you know if async/wait from Control.Concurrent.Async ens
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I don't know, it's far from perfect, but is there a better way to do sequencing in a pure functional language? You have to be able to specify order of execution to tackle real world tasks unless you do callback/continuation p
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
> the better programmers (the ones that know how not to couple shit) favor dynamic typing while those that regardless of experience haven't learned how to keep coupling at bay prefer static types. Haha, wow. That is some serious rea
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
> what the hell do we do More like what can we do, which is essentially nothing besides begging elected officials to do something about it (spoiler: they won't). Alternative is court cases, but those take a lot of time and money
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Hey man, I feel your struggle. I haven't abused my Concerta prescription, but I know how easy it is to do it (I have friends who have abused amphetamines). The only advice I can give you (which you almost certainly already know) is to
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Disclaimer: this is just my personal views, so I may be missing something here. 'unknown' is almost like saying "We don't know what should be here", while 'none' is closer to saying "We didn't ge
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Valid points about the ambiguity in that example, but I do believe 'none' is easier to parse than 'null' for the average person. I'm assuming that none is meant to represent, like null "no input was given"
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
> There's always been poorly-written software, poorly-created websites, bad UIs, bad UX, etc... Yes, but the bad websites in the old days didn't lug in a bunch of unnecessary js to accomplish their aim. I do think things are im
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but they (Standard Chartered) do use a custom compiler. That might explain the difference
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Thanks for bringing this up, I didn't know they were looking for funding for a third edition.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
SML was my first exposure to FP, and while I didn't _really_ get it then, it was responsible for my initial interest in Haskell after graduation. I think SML is a great tool for teaching FP.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Ethnicity is not genetic. It's a social construct that refers to groups based on shared culture / language / nationality. The genetic similarity comes from reproduction among the population as a whole over a period of time. I
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Two questions, if you're up for answering them: * Where's the best place to get data for testing purposes? *What kind of trades do you do? Is it mostly buying and selling actual stocks, or do you go after more complicated trades l
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Cultural bonds tend to be stronger. I don't necessarily buy the arguments that follow from that premise but I do think there's some truth to that statement, especially because ethnic heterogeneity(sp?) tends to go hand in hand wit
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Are you implying people wouldn't jump to SteamOS if it met the needs of gamers? If 95% of Steam games ran on it that would be a huge thing. Lots of people don't want to run Windows 10 because of privacy issues (maybe not a huge nu
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I love William Carlos Williams. I'm not an avid poetry reader, but I always loved going through his work. Another favorite is Alfred Tennyson.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I didn't necessarily mean the effects would be positive, just that there would be effects. I would also like to see studies done regarding decisions such as the one we're discussing
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
A key point (perhaps well known but still very important) is the "let mutable" vs "let" for declaring mutable variables. It really does change tendencies of developers by putting the burden of effort on one of two paths,
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
> If a parent doesn't want their child watching certain types of content the parent needs to monitor the child Why is this so hard for people to grasp? It's not the job of other people to raise your kid(s) for you.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Thanks for the advice! I'll look into that
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Depends on what the project is. If parsing is the biggest part of the project then I would say Haskell is top-class in that respect. It has proven success stories. However, due to the lack of control over GC it has latency issues with certa
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
It is unsafe, but it is not unusual as far as I know. You're not an alarmist but most people won't care until it bites them in the ass.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I want freedom and access to the source code of my OS and desktop. Wish I could have that with Apple
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Fantastic way of putting it. Developers shirk responsibility too easily
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
They shifted to Voat, not other places on reddit. Although that does solve the problem for reddit, the communities didn't disappear.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
> can be an effective way to silence their inhabitants Although that is true, the authors note that they merely shifted to alternative platforms. It's not really getting rid of the problem, just moving it somewhere else.
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
I understand where you're coming from and agree to a large extent, but I think your hypothetical person's characterization of infix as a "basic capability" is a bit off. It's antithetical to Lisp's design to ma
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by hood_syntax 9y ago
Them being incapable of judgment renders that point somewhat moot.

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