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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Most people are entirely unaware of how much data Facebook is collecting about them. Raising awareness about that is a noble goal, but it's not mutually exclusive with stopping Facebook from exploiting their naivety.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Yes, but the post mentions assignment expressions as a bad thing, and says Python "gets it right" in this regard, which would no longer be true.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
I tried to love Zig but the lack of destructors are killing me! They're such a useful tool for resource management, and apparently they weren't added in order to make all control flow "explicit" or something.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
What's wrong with module systems?
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Minor nits: 1. "Single return and out parameters" should have a special mention for Haskell, since Haskell doesn't even have multiple input parameters! 2. Python has assignment expressions now. Overall, it's a pretty goo
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
I still don't understand - you can still have a standalone executable if you want, nothing's stopping you! Package managers just streamline the common case of "I just want to install some software on this computer and have it
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
JavaScript is a god language. Changing Array.prototype is very much considered an antipattern, except in the case of shims, where it's really useful. JavaScript is reinventing itself, introducing a nice, traditional OOP facade with `cl
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Linux is a headache for two reasons: (1) because it's basically packaging your app for half a dozen different app stores, so you need tools that make that easier for you, and (2) lots of frameworks have no, buggy or unwieldy Linux supp
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Huh? Binaries downloaded off the Internet work just as fine on Linux as they do on Windows! Package managers just give you very convenient updating and a chain of trust to greatly reduce the risk of installing malware; and these are things
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Krita has been much nicer than Gimp in my experience, although they fulfil slightly different niches.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
You pay for Windows, but Linux is free. Windows is filled with ads; Linux has none. Windows is slow; Linux is less slow. Windows tried to pull some weird tablet hybrid nonsense; Linux desktops are just desktops. Cinnamon, Mate and KDE took
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Yes, for anyine who wants to do further research it's called Proton. Valve has tried several times in the past to make gaming on Linux more attractive, but this has by far been their most successful attempt.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
OCaml is a very fun language in my experience. Apparently they were going to add ad-hoc polymorphism in the form of modular implicits, but I have no idea what happened to that.
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Discovery without a search engine?
3 points by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago|3 comments
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
If the business objectives lead to a design so bad that it hurts the business, surely the people who came up with these objectives didn't do a very good job?
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
But... Wire has both! With generics, you introduce complexity into the language that everyone has to understand, but that's obviously not true when it comes to having accounts that aren't tied to phone numbers!
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
How hard is it to explain to people that their vote only goes to #2 if #1 is already out of the running?
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
What do you mean by "higher value"? Getting IE11 to work will net you an extra 2.85% of the market, but adding a very minor feature that's only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Their name is honestly fine - it's memorable, has a good domain, and is super, super search-friendly. Also, personally, it reminds me of "replete" more than "reptile", but that's neither here nor there.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
And, additionally, was a host on the YouTube series PBS Infinite Series, shortly before it was cancelled.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
No, he's saying that Thanos just delayed overpopulation for a constant amount of time, and didn't really solve anything.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
To be fair, tab helps you discover commands about as well as a dictionary helps you discover words. I'm personally looking for something like apropos, but much more powerful.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Armies are to protect people and national interests, not currency. I'd love to here more about your vision of a future without military, though.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
And advertisements steal dollars worth of my time for fractions of a cent. I personally find this more justifiable.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
I was expecting something much more sinister (that this man had a Fitbit and they used it to track his location). This is a much more positive use of the technology, but as a layman, my first concern is that this data can be easily forged.
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Griffpatch on Scratch(scratch.mit.edu)
2 points by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago|0 comments
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
I was under the assumption that that was called sibling call optimization, and TCO referred exclusively to recursive calls. Was that just an LLVM-ism, or did I also get that wrong?
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Taking pills just to follow a "normal" schedule set by other people sounds truly awful.
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
Yet that compromise affects some people much more than others, which is the entire problem, and why some people go so far as to claim discrimination. I do agree that naps are an underutilized solution, but they don't really address the
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by ikfmpwdsoz 8y ago
There is (almost) nothing to get. They're just lists. The lists can contain anything you want, including other lists.

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