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by hughw 11y ago
Nope, I knew there'd be a regular humorless hn down voting dickhead. Oh right, I'm not supposed to mention that, or I'll get more dread down votes lol.
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by hughw 11y ago
>> I have never missed autocompletion in Javascript >A moment ago, you complained about having to press a few more keys for the type annotations." For Typescript, I dislike the extra typing. I have never missed autocomplet
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by hughw 11y ago
As I explained, requiring an IDE to make effective use of a language is a marker for a complex language. The system as a whole may be an effective way to build programs for some people, but it's now more than a language. The logical ex
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by hughw 11y ago
I do appreciate the type inference.
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by hughw 11y ago
You're exactly right. The problem with OO is that you are really making state changes in what you should think of as an in-memory database, but the languages offer you no support for doing so logically. A logical language, or as you su
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by hughw 11y ago
Sure. But programming languages whose claim to utility lies in an IDE -- they aren't necessarily bad, but it's not a programming language you're selling me, it's a whole environment: MS Visual Studio or whatever. A compl
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by hughw 11y ago
Nice try, Grady. (edit... y'all, please let me have a little joke)
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by hughw 11y ago
"you should be able to auto-complete pretty much everything" Requires tooling.
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by hughw 11y ago
I just had my first exposure to Typescript recently, and the only part I liked was the fact that it allowed me to mix in plain old, untyped js syntax. TS, used as TS, feels verbose, like java, with lots of extra keyboard-typing to create a
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by hughw 11y ago
I agree. JS is beautiful in the parts where it encourages functional, not object, programming. That link puts it nicely: "You're working in the phony version of JavaScript that only exists to dress the language up like Java."
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by hughw 12y ago
That's a really helpful review of reasons to consider CLR. Thanks.
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by hughw 12y ago
What do you think about tjradcliffe's comments "...we had even less clue then as to how the climate system would respond to any perturbation than we do today, and we have relatively little clue today...With regard to the existence
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by hughw 12y ago
Serious question -- is this not the source code page for the JVM? https://jdk8.java.net/java-se-8-ri/
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by hughw 12y ago
IANAL but these observations are all location related. The police don't need a warrant to follow you (I don't think). Isn't observation by tracking your phone a lot like that? A detective following you could also observe priv
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by hughw 12y ago
I'll see your bet, and raise you: "Block chain computing."
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by hughw 12y ago
The article is only attempting to get the news out that there's an emerging movement to decentralize, and that the underlying technologies aren't baked. If you knew that already, you probably didn't get a ton out of the artic
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by hughw 12y ago
He did argue against the policy on its merits, providing several concrete examples where applying the law enables malefactors to do bad things to you. And nothing in the article refers to the FSF or the concept of free or open source softwa
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by hughw 12y ago
Thank you for looking that up and providing the reference. The M-W argument is flawed when the bit that "literally" modifies already is hyperbole. "Abuse of language sends me through the roof" is hyperbole. "Abuse o
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by hughw 12y ago
Thomas Gold thought it would last a good bit longer. He hypothesized Earth's methane is primordial, dating to the origin of the planet (as with other planets in the solar system). There would be a virtually limitless supply. http:&#x2
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by hughw 12y ago
Literally?
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by hughw 12y ago
Also, this load error. If your user name is dblake, watch out! "Not allowed to load local resource: file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/dblake/.launchpad/cm001.ubm-us.net/cache/defau…ache/defa
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by hughw 12y ago
Every thirty years, we have to break up AT&T again.
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by hughw 12y ago
There's nothing un-nice about that article. It's a reasoned argument. You may disagree with its conclusion, and you can write your own refutation of it. But it has nothing to do with ESR's niceness.
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by hughw 12y ago
Supported OSes: "Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP" They haven't updated WSfU for years now.
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by hughw 12y ago
I've found using a powerful language like Scala permits me to insert terse one liners, where in Java I might have created a function with a rich, English language name describing what the function does. Instead of a semantic descriptio
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by hughw 12y ago
Oooh.
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by hughw 12y ago
Don't you ever lose focus for a moment? I do. Especially with 35 tabs open.
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by hughw 12y ago
As a point of interest: Nigerian scam letters predate the internet. In the eighties and nineties, colleagues in the oil and gas industry, and I, received frequent postal letters, postmarked Nigeria. One memorable one I received from a high
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by hughw 12y ago
I hated it at first. Then I got used to it, and I liked it.
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by hughw 12y ago
Apropos. I'm reading this article, killing time waiting for my EC2 high compute spot instance to finish converting 33,000 TIFF images to PNG and resizing them.

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