jablan

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   by jablan 15y ago

   Maple syrup seems to be endemic for North America. Not sure about the rest of the Europe, but I don't think it can be found in shops over here in Balkans (and maple tree itself is not uncommon).
2. 212.▲
   by jablan 15y ago

   There are, for example, comments and string literals, which may be non-english. Also, people use monospaced fonts for all kinds of things aside from programming (for example, my bash spits out errors in cyrillic). And if I pay for a font, I
3. 213.▲
   by jablan 15y ago

   Not only that (it would be OK if it was the only problem): the article is in a form of a thriller-movie rather than a scientific (or popular science) article - too many interspersed digressions, you have to read it until the very end to get
4. 214.▲
   by jablan 15y ago

   Nope. Whenever you use (), the parser assumes a method call. sqr, inc and (sqr * inc) are not methods (but Proc objects), and all you can do is call _their_ methods, such as [].
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   by jablan 15y ago

   I believe that the impression is there because of the fact that Scala really reminds of a dynamically typed language, with type inference and lots of syntax sugar. And if PHP is the only dynamic language one has been exposed to, then well,
6. 216.▲
   by jablan 15y ago

   Wait, you buy a smartphone plus almost-a-tablet, which has 70% of what other tablets have, costs probably 70% of the price of an ordinary tablet to manufacture, but doesn't work at all by itself. Doesn't seem like a rational thing to spend
7. 217.▲
   by jablan 16y ago

   Sorry, science wants you break some sweat and move to a proper computer. :P
8. 218.▲
   by jablan 16y ago

   What makes any subsequently chosen number any less valid than the first one?
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   by jablan 16y ago

   Agreed. It's the hogs like Java, C# and C++ that gave OO a bad name. Moreover, in dynamic OO languages like Ruby, even scary things like design patterns usually take lot less time and lines of code to implement and, later, understand.
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    by jablan 16y ago

    It would be nice if the colour was meaningful, i.e. if one could, at least roughly, guess the time based on the colour. Say, that the brightness would reflect time of day (brightest at noon, darkest at midnight) and the hue the time within
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    by jablan 16y ago

    Hell, someone should have put NSFW tag out there! :'(
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    by jablan 16y ago

    Not entirely unrelated, but during Milosevic's dictatorship here in Serbia, one of government-owned daily newspapers used PS to "slightly increase" number of supporters on a pro-government rally. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/
13. 223.▲
    by jablan 16y ago

    Quite the opposite, unless you are a born plumber, somehow ended up learning programming. Downloading and installing the compiler, and learning how to compile just to get things going is to programming what putting on a condom is to a... yo
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    by jablan 16y ago

    Thanks for the post, and I completely agree. However, there is one thing about Ruby that could have been better, considering Ruby as a didactic language: TMTOWTDI (more than one way to do stuff) concept which Ruby borrowed from Perl: althou
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    by jablan 16y ago

    I think that's a foreground, actually. :)