kmicklas

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by kmicklas 10y ago
> I hate to be the one who brings Rust into a Go thread You shouldn't feel bad for this. The Go programmers are legitimately unaware that there's a better world out there.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Go is bad but encouraging thorough error handling is one of its few strengths.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
The biggest difference isn't the raw number participating in the culture but rather that Esperantists mostly keep in mind the goals of semantic transparency and simplicity when coining new words and idioms.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Lojban would have been infinitely more promising if it didn't force you to memorize a completely arbitrary argument template for each root and instead used standardized semantic role prepositions (destination, agent, reason, instrument
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Really the biggest reason Esperanto is easy is that it doesn't have a whole culture constantly pumping in new slang and arcane idioms. You can see a word used once or twice and be reasonably certain that you are not missing some subtle
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by kmicklas 10y ago
By the time machine owned enterprises exist, I suspect the janky opaque paper trail system of cross national ownership will be replaced.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> but unfortunately that's unrealistic. Why is it unrealistic? Hollywood just needs to be pushed harder. It worked for music no?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> There's a crazy permutation of ways to write code that can run in a browser or server run time these days! Unfortunately the state of tooling and runtime support is far behind the idealized closure of the transpilation graph.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Seriously, can we stop fetishising old approaches and papers? The entire existence of Go is predicated on fetishizing old approaches, unfortunately.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> That obviously doesn't amount to having "no idea about languages". True. But it's a complex topic so in reality these are highly correlated. > This is the lamest sort of language spat. It's football hooligan
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Usually compilers are going from something nicer like OCaml to something janker like JS or C. Interesting to see the other way around for a change.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Among many, many others. Neither is Go an hammer, nor is everything a nail. For the use cases Go was designed for, I am yet to use a language as pleasant to work with as Go. You need to learn more languages (and really learn them).
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> If I want to pay someone for support for running NixOS-based servers, who do I pay? This is exactly my point; the industry is blissfully unaware of the concepts themselves behind Nix. I'm not saying Nix itself is the ultimate piec
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> both of which are nearly impossible to learn proficiently as a second language. Citation needed.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I find it very hard to believe that anyone would be moving to node.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> To be fair, Nix language is completely different from other languages out there -- it employs only immutable data structures -- so using another language would not be possible. I don't think the immutability is actually important.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Agreed, Nix the language is probably unnecessary. (The main benefit I can think of is avoiding depending on the moving target that is basically any other scripting language they could have tried to co-opt.)
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Some century the industry will discover the NixOS model...
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> tax land values higher (e.g. raise property taxes). More specifically, taxing land irrespective of the value of what's built on top of it.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Seems like you don't remember Napster either. Where were you in the decade 1995–2005? The golden age of digital music ended in 2016 with the death of what.cd
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Imagine if we had permanently made the mistake of saddling the Web with manual, error-prone memory management. Sounds like WebAssembly :)
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Of course there are despicable people of all political stripes. There are no non-despicable white nationalists though, which is the difference I am pointing out.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I know a few alt-right types in real life (one unfortunately being one of my roommates). They are absolutely as insufferable face to face as they are online. If anything I hate them more because I have direct confirmation that they are desp
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by kmicklas 10y ago
What do you mean by this?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This would be the modern version of the suburban development fallacy - building neighborhoods to a finished state with no method for organic expansion.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
And yet no generics still. What a joke.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Socialism = state with social ownership of the means of production Communism = hypothetical end goal of society where the state "whithers away" and class divisions no longer exist Note that people describe themselves as communis
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Or leave and work for a competitor. I don't put a gun to anybody's head, unlike various socialist governments. Only socialist governments put guns to people's heads? > Note that I work in North America and so my expec
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by kmicklas 10y ago
That's classic horseshoe theory nonsense.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Between 1917 and 1950 they grew at a staggering pace. From agricultural backwater to first space power. That isn't an economic failure in any way. > If we attribute Stalin to a failure of communism surely we have to also attrib

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