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by incepted 11y ago
I totally remember Deuteros. It was riveting. I remember adding more and more stations and bases, I thought I had the game down, and then after deploying a certain number of stations, I triggered a reaction from the aliens and little by lit
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by incepted 11y ago
You are missing my point. Their methodology matters little when their findings are consistent with a lot of other sources that use different methodologies. All these sites agree on the general brackets that these languages belong to. Until
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by incepted 11y ago
This article is pretty meaningless without any link to the app so we can see for ourselves. I couldn't find it in the Apple store, did anyone?
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by incepted 11y ago
Tiobe is consistent with pretty much any other measuring approach (job boards, github, stack overflow, etc...), so yes. It's a pretty reliable indicator.
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by incepted 11y ago
Erlang is mentioned only once in this entire article, and it's in the "See also" section. Nothing in this Wikipedia article supports the claim that Ericsson uses Erlang at all.
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by incepted 11y ago
> One aspect of it is that it is used more of an infrastructure language Ah yes, the "dark matter" argument. It's out there but nobody can see it. You'll just have to trust me.
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by incepted 11y ago
I was asking for the names of the experts allegedly behind Erlang. As for listing companies that use Erlang, plenty of companies use PHP and COBOL too. This doesn't say anything about whether these languages are the most adequate for t
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by incepted 11y ago
That's one of the many definitions we have for it, yes. Plenty of people will disagree with it too.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Erlang is made by professionals with decades of experience Who are they, besides Joe? Can you at least provide their names? I'd really like to take a look at their credentials because beyond WhatsApp and an obscure Ericsson router
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by incepted 11y ago
Sure, but I interpreted OP's statement as saying "used in practice" as in "used in the real world". Pretty sure that Erlang would barely register as a blip on such a chart.
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by incepted 11y ago
When trying to assess popularity, measuring "ad populum" is exactly the right metric (hint: look at the root of the word).
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by incepted 11y ago
You're both right and wrong, it's just that "functional" has a lot of different definitions and nobody can agree on which one is correct. As a result, "functional" has become pretty much meaningless when descri
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by incepted 11y ago
> Even though it is probably the most practically used functional language. Would love to get some evidence to back up Erlang being the most practically used functionally used language, because for all I know, it's hardly used at a
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by incepted 11y ago
Not many, but even so, this is never the right question to ask. That question would be: what programs are written in <LANGUAGE> that couldn't benefit from being rewritten in another language? And most often, the answer to that qu
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by incepted 11y ago
Exactly. More generally, this is what code reviews are for. On top of the personal issues that might be occurring there, it looks like that team doesn't do code reviews. Code reviews are not just to make sure the code that goes in is s
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by incepted 11y ago
> It's amazing how you can tell so much about a person just by reading one short article. I take it you never heard of Brian McKenna before?
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by incepted 11y ago
We need more reasonable people like you :-)
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by incepted 11y ago
Sounds like the author is sharing a personal story here. I'm guessing he wrote some FP code and one his coworkers complained about it. OP, two pieces of advice: - Ask yourself why your coworker went to your boss instead of talking to y
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by incepted 11y ago
This is an old story, going back at least a year: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Martins-Beach-owner-ch...
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by incepted 11y ago
I thought this was about mint.com... Relieved.
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by incepted 11y ago
If the language you want to work in is so important, you should have picked the company first and the location second. Besides, data outlives code. By orders of magnitude. You seem to be in love with Haskell today, chances are you'll b
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by incepted 11y ago
I never said that, I recommended to address the cause (unjustified subpoenas) rather than the symptom (the government asking for access to phones owned by criminals or alleged criminals).
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by incepted 11y ago
Then take issues with illegal subpoenas. Siding with Apple on the current Apple/government discussion is trying to cure a symptom instead of a cause.
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by incepted 11y ago
If there is a subpoena against that phone, I don't really have an issue with the government gaining full access to it. But there needs to be a subpoena and that backdoor can't be activated without one. It's a similar, albeit
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by incepted 11y ago
If anything, they are sorry they got caught. If they could get away with it, they would definitely have continued to kill jailbroken phones as much as they can.
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by incepted 11y ago
Shortly after saying that, he went on to work on the Kotlin libraries and compiler (not any more, though).
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by incepted 11y ago
> Maybe that's where the things in programming are going? Doubtful. Idris is probably the most visible current effort in that direction and even it is extremely obscure and barely known beyond the Haskell afficionado circles. And fo
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by incepted 11y ago
> One of the things I love about Scala is that you don't have to "go all the way" though This is true of any language so it doesn't mean much. Still, we went through the same thing with C++ 20 years ago. Google even u
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by incepted 11y ago
> Maybe Java will adopt these things in say 5 years - but why would you want to wait 5 years for them? Exactly. I'm an Android developer and while I have followed the latest OpenJDK developments on Android with interest, I don'
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by incepted 11y ago
I don't see any syntactic features in Java 9 that will close that gap further, but I guess we'll see.

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