ionforce

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by ionforce 13y ago
You are correct; I should have said non-idiomatic rather than non-native. But idiomatic writers do feel like natives!
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by ionforce 13y ago
Scala is like Perl in that there is a non-zero possibility of writing non-native code. In Scala, you're supposed to favor immutability and functional constructs, but there's nothing preventing you from treating Scala exactly like
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by ionforce 13y ago
I admit I'm being myopic here but that's exactly why I ask. In what scenario is a genuine message passing/arbitrary methods useful? I tend to look through everything in an OOP/type safe way, so the idea of having an unli
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by ionforce 13y ago
I doubt you would have said the same thing if the post started with "that dude" or "that guy".
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by ionforce 13y ago
Well there must have been an underlying reason why companies would go out of their way to invest in their own transportation system than invest in the one that already exists. Maybe they were met with resistance? What is this resistance?
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by ionforce 13y ago
How can middle class not mean anything? Doesn't it refer to the fat section of the income curve, where there are supposed to be the most number of people?
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by ionforce 13y ago
Schrödinger's source code repository?
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by ionforce 13y ago
Have you not heard of the high incidence rates of Chinese and Indian students being notorious for cheating? Ask any computer science teacher's assistant.
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by ionforce 13y ago
Who are you?
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by ionforce 13y ago
I guess it's a natural reaction to people wanting to jump on that "big data" bandwagon. Kind of like size envy I guess? So sad...
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by ionforce 13y ago
It's absolutely not unfair. Even to the beta Apple has invested a ton of time putting their UI designs front and center. If they didn't want them to be the travesty they are now they would have made them differently. It's har
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by ionforce 13y ago
You don't want direct democracy. Otherwise the majority will rule over the minority.
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by ionforce 13y ago
Fellow git aliaser, consider shell aliasing git to g!
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by ionforce 13y ago
I'm sure there's a Scotsman somewhere that would like to speak to you.
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by ionforce 13y ago
I don't agree with this. I think the root problem in many "arguments" is that the two parties are speaking completely different languages or using two different rule sets. One side will use logical sounding arguments that aren't really logi
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by ionforce 13y ago
Why does the victim in the article have to be a woman? Why can't it just be a random, genderless Internet denizen?
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by ionforce 13y ago
I think it is an abstraction about how finance is as a whole. I gather you are not in finance, but neither am I. Let's say I'm a fledgeling lemonade stand and I want $10 of investment. You give me that $10 and with it I make $15. You wanted
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by ionforce 13y ago
Why would there be a hospital policy against gender disclosure?
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by ionforce 13y ago
I've done a lot of theorycrafting regarding specialists vs generalists. If we could take a detour to the Warcraft/Final Fantasy arena... Being a generalist is like being a Druid/Shammy/Paladin/Red Mage. They will never be as good as a pure
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by ionforce 13y ago
I love the fact that he wanted at least a letter of verification for future job prospects. Future thinking kid! And, he has a history with Microsoft and Mozilla, and he's only 17! I love it.
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by ionforce 13y ago
Soda is symbolic for free perks. Free water, free tea, free snacks, free cabs, free dinner, etc.
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by ionforce 13y ago
You fix it with heavy-handed moderation that actively punishes curtly written content.
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by ionforce 13y ago
It's a sad reality that FOSS is about the developers scratching their own itches, and not really about user level polish. That's what paid businesses are for. User bugs are hard and not sexy and probably not fun to developers, which is why
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by ionforce 13y ago
Static analysis aids in finding common errors earlier in the development process. Also, what does reverse compatibility have to do with ease of parsing?
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by ionforce 13y ago
For varying contexts of bad. It impedes on things like static analysis. You don't want the surface area of your programming language confined to 1) runtime 2) being run by a specific binary. Where is the offline tooling? Where is the variet
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by ionforce 13y ago
Operator overloading is good if the operator continues to mean the same thing across domains. If I have two integers and I want to add them together to create a new integer, that's pretty clear. It's still clear that if I have two complex n
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by ionforce 13y ago
What makes it complex and bad?
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by ionforce 13y ago
Surely not all children? You mean children enrolled in music class, which I don't think qualifies as a small amount of training.
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by ionforce 13y ago
As a musician, I would disagree heavily with the author's statement that "people learn to read [musical notation] fluently with a little training". A few certain individuals can be musical without being musically literate but understanding
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by ionforce 13y ago
To further clarify, only the entirety of Perl cannot be parsed perfectly. There are large subsets of Perl that can be parsed easily.

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