kevinkyyro

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by kevinkyyro 12y ago
My main problem with the proposition that "OOP is awful" is that the argument is basically "it's not the best so it's the worst". The expression problem is not solved by every language, but basically because Li
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by kevinkyyro 12y ago
This blew my mind. The "scala" example he used was literally a java code snippet pulled from here http://batsov.com/articles/2011/05/12/jvm-langs-clojure/ IT'S LITERALLY JAVA SYNTAX,
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by kevinkyyro 12y ago
It seems practical to say a functional language has first-class functions and a purely functional language has first-class functions and no mutable state -- purely functional -> functional and not imperative. I would identify a language
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by kevinkyyro 13y ago
hah, i guess i should mention that i am bad at leading because of my own slow typing annoying myself
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by kevinkyyro 13y ago
It's a false dichotomy to assume you must either a) reject conditions or b) be medicated. This is especially true considering that at least one of the "conditions" mentioned by invalidOrTaken was a social conditions (e.g. mil
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by kevinkyyro 13y ago
Slow typing can be very tedious while pair programming, though the tedium is also a function of anxiety and patience.
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by kevinkyyro 13y ago
Your disagreement is kind of out of place here; no claim was made of where the productivity boost of autocomplete ranks against other development factors. Besides, whether or not you use autocomplete is orthogonal to your framework choice.
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by kevinkyyro 13y ago
In defense of non-fiction readers, it seems that one could make the statement quoted above in order to say "this is my intent in reading, so it leads me to read these types of books because they aim to serve that purpose"; it does