jayvanguard

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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I agree, I think optional or gradual typing is the future for dynamic languages.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
This post and the one that prompted it both seem to be begging the question. I don't see greater percentage use of static vs. dynamic languages now compared to ten or twenty years ago. There is a lot of interesting research into strong
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Good stuff. A bit more accessible than this free online textbook: http://www.dspguide.com/
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The article you reference doesn't actually provide any evidence that the claim is false.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I'm Not on Facebook is the new I Don't Own a TV.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Despite your single article, I followed NAFTA and secrecy was not the dominant talking point. Specifics about industries affected were the focal point. Elected officials were actually involved. Your other two examples are from last year and
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> All international agreements are generally discussed in secrecy. People keep repeating this line with no evidence. I've been around for a number of international treaties and this is the first one I recall where the #1 issue is ho
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I found the choice of terminology for this odd too. "Family Owned" makes it sound much more benign than the more common "Privately Owned".
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> The hopes of private industry are that an entirely private corporation, in order to protect its brand's value, needs to avoid this sort of thing. It's 2015, no-one believes this anymore.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
This is quite likely an example, from a data modelling point of view, of an extremely slowly changing dimension driven by historical regulations, laws, and taxonomies. It may still be meaningful for a few industries, but not in general.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Most normal countries aren't aiming for equality, they are just aiming for not-massive-inequality.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I was wondering about the private vs. public position of companies on this. Seeing Microsoft recently flip to the "good list" of companies made me very suspicious.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
This man knows nothing of history, let alone physics.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Great summary and very needed at this time to make sense of a number of trends. A minor nit: I think it would be better if he didn't overload the long ago claimed term "Data Modeling" and specifically called it Generative and
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
It was explicitly not a design goal to be backwards compatible. "In exchange for breaking backwards compatibility, at least at the language level, Perl 6 offers plenty of high-powered language concepts that Perl 5 didn't support..
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Wasn't it Netscape 1.1? Everything looked so modern after that.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Some sound advice. Having worked with academics before, the ones who were most successful were able to switch gears between individual and team goals as he describes.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
If you feel that your employer knowing about outside passions is going to be a problem then you need to find another employer.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> I believe the entire ecosystem of "hackathons" to be a scam for Billy like people to exploit naive developers. Bingo!
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I learned that she really _got_ the potential of computing and what it was going to be. In 1843. Crazy.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
He is being perfectly fair and accurate, which is probably a first for anyone making futurist predictions, so kudos to him. This is exactly why all futurists are full of shit (see Kurzweil) and predicting the future is impossible. Getting s
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Because 40 years ago people were convinced it would be popular one day. And 30 years there was roughly the same percentage of highly convinced, vocal people who thought so. And 20 years ago same thing. 10 years ago ditto. I mean, what is go
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Yes, the blog author was pretty generous. He got almost everything wrong if you're being at all critical. The smartphone market is at least 5 years out. 3 years later iPhone comes out and defines the market. Saying it didn't get r
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
+1 would read more.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
P.S. Haskell is the new lisp. See you in 50 years when people are still predicting it'll get big anytime now.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010 Let me lay the raw truth out for any lisp fans. It will never be popular or widely adopted. Ever. It has been around for half a century. At no time was it ever widel
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
It completely undermines it. You have the direction of your dependency arrows mixed up.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
You're wrong on all accounts. The Objective-C dispatch model is based on Smalltalk. Most OSX apps and services still aren't even written in Objective-C and many (most actually) platform APIs are still in C. You can compile Objecti
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Neither are "inherently tied" to OSX or iOS. They may be practically tied due to who drives them and their competitors lack of incentive to ever invest in them, but from a pure language point of view they are agnostic.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
According to Wikipedia: In 1934, Aikawa separated the expanded automobile parts division of Tobata Casting and incorporated it as a new subsidiary, which he named Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. This guy knew exactly what he was doing i

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