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by jrq 8y ago
He truly loved big brother. Yeah, I hadn't the bravery to include that, as I didn't want my response to seem so reactionary, but that really is what it is. Really the only difference is that in the book, he is coerced to perform t
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by jrq 8y ago
Isn't that an extremely dangerous thing to do to a person's mind? Nobody is perfect, right? I believe that. That's an ancient biblical principle. If we were to take someone we perceive as unhealthy and conform their mind to s
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by jrq 8y ago
Yes
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by jrq 8y ago
It's a puzzler!
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by jrq 8y ago
Insightful!
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by jrq 8y ago
APL fascinates me, but it's very hard to understand. I haven't found any intellectual footing as it's so dissimilar to what I've learned already. Would you have any good book recommendations? Or any recommendations, real
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by jrq 8y ago
Not parent, but this was sarcasm.
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by jrq 8y ago
You can use LINQ with generic types, that's a dsl that can interact with the language, right? I may be completely missing what you're saying here
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by jrq 8y ago
Ohhhhhh, of course! Gosh, thanks. I sometimes hold historical technology to unfair standards because I'm not thinking about the continuity of it all. Crazy to think twenty-somethings are out there hacking COBOL!
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by jrq 8y ago
Convention, mainly.
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by jrq 8y ago
But there's no types! I've never tried clojure, but I've done scheme before. Maybe I should... Thanks!
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by jrq 8y ago
Yes, but this thread has enough context, tasty is a big deal in scala 3 proposals. You're right though, thanks!
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by jrq 8y ago
I agree! I suppose that the wish for meta programming, when I rely on it, is to express a pattern that either can't express with types or with functions. In ruby, I know well enough to avoid define method and mm, and do things the hard
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by jrq 8y ago
Of course, I agree. In time, as the scala ecosystem flourishes and adapts, I, along with many others, may be coaxed back in. Scala suffers from a problem of too many bright people all trying to solve too few problems. And implicits. Bad ide
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by jrq 8y ago
I've seen it a while ago too, but without lightbend blessing it's next to useless, in practical usage. I can't deliver that to a client
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by jrq 8y ago
Disclaimer : I'm just some moron on the Internet Unpopular opinion: I hate meta programming. We have composition, why do you need to mess with the nature of things? A long time ago, I was freelancing Rails. I can't accurately desc
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by jrq 8y ago
So that's kind of like a coroutine. Taking recursion away seems like an unnecessary limitation, considering how much power main frames have. Resource efficiency is great and all, and certainly there's a benefit to not hammering th
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by jrq 8y ago
I thought this was trans as is transhumanism at first, for whatever reason. Scary to think what people just buy off the Internet and ingest! Edit: I'm not parent commenter btw, just checked the link out to see what it was about
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by jrq 8y ago
That seems crazy! I've never heard of this feature. Maybe you should contact support. Surely they'd have thought that through more!
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by jrq 8y ago
But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? HN is about denominators. We all want to get rich. Some of us are willing to work, some of us are willing to hustle, etc. The ideals o
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by jrq 8y ago
Heathen! What don't you like about emojis?
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by jrq 8y ago
You sewed it up! Excellent comment. Statbait blogging is so irritating, and I see it all the time, where some seemingly interesting observation is twisted by someone's pet data mining project to support a crappy blog article.
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by jrq 8y ago
Doesn't have any objective content whatsoever. Not particularly useful for anybody? Maybe I misunderstand
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by jrq 8y ago
It uses HTTP requests for transit! I know you don't actually know what youre talking about, so I'll explain: There is much more overhead to opening a connection and maintaining a connect and sending and receiving, to the degree th
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by jrq 8y ago
Why is the world so desperate to pretend that irc doesn't exist? Why can't we just get a new irc spec with e2e in mind? Matrix is an extremely immature project and the French gov is making an irresponsible move here to prop it up
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by jrq 8y ago
If the Mac books are so bad, why does HN keep buying them? Do you guys just like writing these blog posts about how much it sucks? Didn't we know it would be worse before it ever even hit the store? Why subject yourself to that inconve
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by jrq 8y ago
Are toys in cereal boxes gambling? Are fortune cookies gambling? Are mystery flavor candy gambling? I find this a mind boggling decision Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about Belgian legislature history
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by jrq 8y ago
Is this illegal, to represent opinions through pseudonymity? Can a pseudonym legally advise someone? My opinion is that the pseudonym is a clever way to share things that you don't want directly associated with yourself, or things that
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by jrq 8y ago
So then it wasn't unannounced... Seems to me this is a non issue then. I guess not everybody reads those, and I've already conceded that its something that ought to warrant a warning prompt or something. But they didn't just
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by jrq 8y ago
I don't think this is entirely debian maintainers fault. Package names aren't functions, so the string doesn't necessarily map to the thing you want. Left-pad is the modern analog to what I mean here. Mariadb probably put in

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