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by jbooth 12y ago
I'm much less experienced with Haskell than with Scala, so I might be unfairly painting it with the same brush here. But, for example, https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/io.html . At the end of the day, this is a hug
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by jbooth 12y ago
You find C# harder than this? trait SeqLike[+A, +Repr] extends Any with IterableLike[A, Repr] with GenSeqLike[A, Repr] with Parallelizable[A, ParSeq[A]] { self => or def :+[B >: A, That](elem: B)(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, Tha
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by jbooth 12y ago
Probably because, A), it was an uncalled-for digression into language wars, and B), now that we're here anyways, a lot of us think the majority of features in scala and Haskell for that matter are fundamentally misguided. My goal is n
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by jbooth 12y ago
If you're better as a rogue than as a student, that's like 10x the time to work on being a student. The real world? It sucks, and brilliant rogues are frequently punished shortly after saving the day. You've got 40-50 year
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by jbooth 12y ago
Amdahl's law says auto-parallelising a map operation is usually a big waste of time.
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by jbooth 12y ago
"And what's with the debt-but-no-education? How was that supposed to work? One or the other." It's not very often in life that the phrase "check your privilege" is appropriate or reasonable, but right here, rig
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by jbooth 12y ago
I guess if I were trying to make your point, I'd point to Brendan Eich / Condi Rice rather than no-name CTO with an actually very offensive twitter history (multiple fire-worthy tweets for a high-profile job IMO) vs name-brand cel
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by jbooth 12y ago
Kind of apples and oranges there, right? The tech guy's comments were way worse than Bloomberg's, and we're not so much talking about "tech vs non tech" here as we are talking about "bloomberg vs not bloombe
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by jbooth 12y ago
So, uh, why is the go-supported option encouraging me to download it from github at compile time without so much as crude versioning support? Lots of people run internal Maven repos, they have every dependency vendored, but they also want t
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by jbooth 12y ago
Andrew Gerrand: The lack of versioning built into the Go tool incentivizes library authors to provide good, stable APIs. Are you kidding me??? So if some invariant behavior on an otherwise stable API changes, I don't know until runt
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by jbooth 12y ago
Wha?? How is something that flips up and down by several hundred percent over a given quarter-year going to 'align the exchange amount of currencies with real market value'? What does that even mean? Like the billion-dollar cur
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by jbooth 12y ago
A lot of us love bland. Personally working on Scala for my day job and I curse the authors every time I see some neato feature that's been abused by a bored dev or a dev on a deadline. As far as Go over Java, in terms of differences
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by jbooth 12y ago
Eh. It's a few lines of typing to add the additional interface, a line of SQL per function, and a few lines to write the annyoing unmarshalling code. Frequently, I find that by the time you figure out how to get an ORM to do what you
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by jbooth 12y ago
type EmailAddress string works in go
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by jbooth 12y ago
The AG doesn't walk home with an extra B in the bank after a settlement. He's not collecting the payout. As far as drumming up charges and collecting windfalls.. you think these companies with their legal departments would just
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by jbooth 12y ago
The shareholders absorb the profits, as well. If a CEO messes up at his job in a purely business sense and the shareholders lose money, that's ok, right? I mean it's the whole idea of having shareholders. I'd include "
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by jbooth 12y ago
If settling shouldn't be an option, and indictment is unthinkable, what's that leave for enforcement? I'm unhappy with the settlements and would have liked to see a big trial, it would have resulted in much bigger fines IMO f
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by jbooth 12y ago
So we're talking about cases like threatening the world financial system, polluting the whole gulf of mexico, helping the sudanese government while the're committing an actual genocide.. and you're saying the legal system s
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by jbooth 12y ago
So you're buying the line that BoA or BNP Paribas would go into bankruptcy if charges were filed? Even the author knew he couldn't make that case and resorted to a weasel-worded implication.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Most employees and shareholders weren't involved in those crazy single-day trading blowups that lost billions either.
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by jbooth 12y ago
These (somewhat) reasonable points are lodged in between a bunch of horribly biased wording, words like "shakedown", "supposed misdeeds", etc. If people are having a hard time getting past that to the author's point
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by jbooth 12y ago
I think the gain you're seeing there is because it's quicker for you to do quick, dirty ad hoc work with the shell than it is to write custom python for each file. Which totally makes sense, the work's ad hoc so use an ad ho
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by jbooth 12y ago
The Chinese were printing for hundreds of years before Europe picked it up[1]. If you're making a single plate to reproduce a page, it actually doesn't matter if it's characters or an alphabet. Same with moveable type, it&#
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by jbooth 12y ago
Plouffe ran an exceptional 'outsider' campaign, where a lot of the party apparatchiks were already pledged to Clinton, and the Obama campaign built their own outside infrastructure to compete. Lobbying is about 'insiders&#x27
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by jbooth 12y ago
It's a very indicative part of the story. Given the story of the Wash Post guy and the Al Jazeera guys, both very well documented, it does indeed seem like a substantial portion of those particular cops do wake up in the morning thin
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by jbooth 12y ago
So the cops arresting journalists in McDonald's, or shooting tear gas canisters at Al-Jazeera on an otherwise empty street, that's a proportional response to aggression? If one a-hole in a crowd hucks a bottle at you, gassing the
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by jbooth 12y ago
If the government pays its employees at market prices for tech, it'd be another sign of the bloated, inefficient federal government and, uh, socialism or something. If they pay a big federal contractor at twice that rate, who then pock
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by jbooth 12y ago
If I ever pitch something someplace that's known to follow that rule, I'm showing up in a tuxedo.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Yeah, but we're talking about not vaccinating your kids, here. It might be that we're all living in a computer simulation and none of this matters but we should still act on what we observe.
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by jbooth 12y ago
I'm not on the inside of cockroachDB's raft implementation, but typically you've got a single thread processing AppendEntries requests in a defined order, exactly one at a time, to guarantee the same order of execution on eve

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