jbooth

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811.
by jbooth 13y ago
Go has first-class functions and closures. Every pure FP approach to side-effects I've seen has been a mess, stuff like with-open-file. It's fine if that's the minority of your code and you're getting enough out of bein
812.
by jbooth 13y ago
'go test' is pretty straightforward. Not so much a framework as a tool -- I think you'll find that most of the language carries the opinion 'Frameworks are a straightjacket, libraries are a tool'.
813.
by jbooth 13y ago
It's a major characteristic, often cited as a positive. I included a reference to eval(), as well. Please enlighten me as to what they're really about, then?
814.
by jbooth 13y ago
Go was designed to write systems-y back-end services. Functional languages are a terrible mismatch for this. 'No side effects' is great for certain types of coding, and terrible for systems integration where side effects are the
815.
by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, he should build a social mobile webapp to help find your car keys instead.
816.
by jbooth 13y ago
Lots of cities had race riots in the 60s. Lots of cities were rough during the crack epidemic, too. Most are doing great these days. Looking past the collapse of the auto industry (which coincided with the greatest population decline in 200
817.
by jbooth 13y ago
It's a somewhat racist simplification of things. The 67 riots were a big part of what provoked 'white flight' from detroit to the burbs. Of course, detroit was already losing population before that and the trend didn't
818.
by jbooth 13y ago
I'm singling out conservatives because they're hypocrites. Liberals don't trust police/military, and are ok with the welfare state. They're generally pretty consistent on this, Obama's signed off on this progr
819.
by jbooth 13y ago
Of course you set it up to prove or disprove a hypothesis. Otherwise you're just trying random stuff with no idea why it might be interesting.
820.
by jbooth 13y ago
After the administration was split (a few different ways were tried, settling on eastern/western halfs), the western half declined, failed to stop incursions from the Germanic tribes and eventually Rome was sacked a couple times. The e
821.
by jbooth 13y ago
Original link: "Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA," Your link: "...enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that d
822.
by jbooth 13y ago
Is that a serious question? First line of the article: "The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the Na
823.
by jbooth 13y ago
Not to mention that they've yelled tyranny! at every minor administrative tweak, regulatory change or appointment for the last 6 years... And then, when something like this comes up, that actually does threaten our rights, crickets?
824.
by jbooth 13y ago
The concepts aren't even opposed. If, hypothetically, there actually is a ticking bomb somewhere (this has never happened that we know of), just break the law. You'll sort it out later. If you were right, there will be a pardon,
825.
by jbooth 13y ago
Woah, woah, so by smaller government, you mean dictatorship? How is that less threatening? Committees are what happens when you have a legislature.
826.
by jbooth 13y ago
All of those things. When they all agree on a terminology, the terminology can be said to be used by 'the US'.
827.
by jbooth 13y ago
Hey, missed this earlier. What exactly does the public access TV station do for the community? How does something like that fit into the modern world where the price of a TV studio (or handheld HD) is not prohibitive, and the content can b
828.
by jbooth 13y ago
The most minimal government possible is reduced to just the scary parts . That's the thing. A smaller government is no less scary in a police/military sense, unless you actually make the military and police smaller. The irony i
829.
by jbooth 13y ago
We thought we did pretty well, double dipping by hitting up both comcast and verizon. Maybe we could have played hardball and refused to renew the contracts, but who do you think wins there? Take away people's TV? You crazy? Then we
830.
by jbooth 13y ago
So you're saying that local governments have less funds to spend today than they did 15 years ago? I don't think so. Relative to costs, yes. Their funding has gone up, in general, by less than inflation[1]. Then account for the
831.
by jbooth 13y ago
Hi everyone, I actually signed one of these contracts as a local elected official. We had no money, laying off teachers and cops 3 years in a row. Cable company shows up and offers to fund our public access TV and hook up a bunch of electr
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's funny, the whole java applet thing was actually a better solution than JS in a lot of ways (shipping compiled/compressed bytecode with a security manager), just way, way ahead of it's time, and with a terrible windowing&
833.
by jbooth 13y ago
I guess I'm not seeing a categorical difference. Someone posts a blog to HN that's full of garbage and bad numbers and it gets debunked. We don't have journal subscriptions or piles of bureaucratic BS, just some people who
834.
by jbooth 13y ago
Writing down your thoughts and having them read by people is indeed pretty critical for science. What does the current publishing model do for us that a blog wouldn't? What does academia-speak accomplish? From the few CS papers I&#x2
835.
by jbooth 13y ago
The problem with vouchers is that they effectively de-fund public schools in the way they're implemented. Private schools will take the best students, hurting the school's funding next year and leaving them with a per-capita more
836.
by jbooth 13y ago
That sounds like some sort of godless, unchristian commie talk.
837.
by jbooth 13y ago
Given that, at this point, there's no incentive for him to be a bastard besides the pleasure derived from it, it seems like that's actually just who he is.
838.
by jbooth 13y ago
I agree with all of that. What I'm saying is that blaming the current security state on 'unions' is like saying NYC exists because of, I dunno, greenpoint. Not necessary and not even sufficient. Of course certain unions see
839.
by jbooth 13y ago
Millions????? OMG Give me a break. Unions have a lot of problems but if they were so damned influential, maybe every public sector union except for federal security wouldn't have been losing jobs and hours for the last 10 years.
840.
by jbooth 13y ago
The media's on sensationalism's side, and the mob's side.

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