knucklesandwich

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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Accusing other languages of suffering from paralysis of choice and fragmentation and offering "go get" as an example of solving this is truly ironic: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#package-management
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I'm pretty ignorant about economics, but doesn't this assume perfect competition? For housing that's probably a reach (depending on the location) given the possibility of limited supply and near monopoly power of real estate
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
My point is you probably shouldn't normalize this kind of behavior or advise your daughter to forgive it and steer men like this towards someone to mentor them. Women don't have an obligation to raise men they didn't help bir
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
This was hard to read. I know the author meant well, but I have a lot of bones to pick with this. The shortened version of my gripes is this: Don't teach your daughter to excuse casual misogyny and seek "honorable" men, for w
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Not true: class hierarchies aren't closed, which means you can't check exhaustivity of cases (or you can, but you can't guarantee exhaustivity with dynamically loading code and you generally destroy your chances of having inc
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure you're right about it being written in OCaml, I just had the recollection of seeing that somewhere as well.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I wrote a comment about this below, but I think its fair to say that pedagogy has been a long standing problem in the functional programming community. A lot of the criticisms leveled at haskell for producing "toy software" are be
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I think the context of this post being 6 years old is important. While I don't buy the argument that functional programming languages are more complex, I think there's certainly been a long-standing problem of good pedagogy in the
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I'm generally in favor of some form of legalization, but I feel like this conversation has a tendency to become very hand-wavy and legalization can be overly evangelized as a panacea for systemic problems related to addiction. Firstly,
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Yeah, it really depends on the language and build artifact characteristics, but I'm mostly speaking about my experience with haskell and C. Natively compiled languages tend to have more problems with this because the libraries themselv
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Global installs are the root of a lot of headaches when building software in the same way that global mutable state is the root of a lot of headaches when developing it. Nix may be the one system package manager that is the exception to thi
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
One of the things that I've found to be important for (and generally under-documented by) package managers is resolution strategy. pip, for instance, eagerly resolves the highest version of a dependency first found in the tree and does
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I'm not a design expert or necessarily even design literate. Stating up front: I understand the importance of design and think it's a super important profession. If anything, I'm envious of people who have the ability to prac
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Low content comment: I love that someone wrote this, because I was literally wondering if an article with this title would show up on HN. Really cool typography (also a fantastic show). I know almost nil about the subject, but the title fon
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Agreed, they likely will. I probably wasn't clear, I wasn't making a claim about the danger to the average person, only to the danger for an average person given they have an interaction with the police vs the danger to the averag
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Incorrect WRT the injury stat. You're looking at the total stats for 10 years, not any single year. Actually I just realized I made the same mistake for killings by police (1111 is a _one year_ count for citizens, whereas 505 is a _ten
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Agreed, but this is the same argument you can make about police deaths. And it does say something about danger in an absolute sense (threat of death, at least). The threat of death is much higher to the person being engaged by police. Is th
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
In 2014, according to killedbypolice.net, the number of recorded killings by the police was 1111 [1], which would mean you have about _21 times_ the odds of being killed by police in a given interaction than they have of being killed by you
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Sure, my point though is that it's being disingenuous to put the blame on the laws themselves for enabling these circumstances. As a society we tend to want punishment for theft, violence, etc. so it's a little absurd to say that
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
A little over 50% of officers killed in the past 10 years were killed by accidents, mostly car accidents. Feloniously Killed: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl... Acc
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Except that the implication here is that the laws precipitate the use of lethal force. You may not be guilty (or suspected to be guilty) of anything in the eyes of the law and face the prospect of lethal force, considering police have inves
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I don't see how this follows. Not all laws permit use of deadly force. And it's not even the laws per se as much as the circumstances and criteria around authorization of deadly force. I've been trying to learn about this lat
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Action Park(en.wikipedia.org)
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Scott Adams is a completely baffling human being to me. He sets up an acknowledged straw man about who is responsible for gun violence. Then uses that straw man to illustrate the mechanism behind a psychological divide between democrats and
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Haha here was my personal intro to the world of haskell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvCNb7fKsg . Was instantly hooked.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Not to knock LYAH, but I personally think it stops at a place that would leave newcomers a little ill-equipped to work on haskell projects, considering there are concepts (like monad transformers) that nearly every modern haskell project is
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Look, try to hire emotionally intelligent people. Be honest to them about what they're getting into when they get hired (ways in which the company operates, the technology stack the company is required to support, etc.). Finally, be op
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I wouldn't necessarily agree with this. Many functional programmers actually prefer some of the advantages of black boxes. Even methods as a calling interface vs functions are more a stylistic difference (when you aren't factoring
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
The above person said or in the cloud . Agreed that its a pain. I only have experience with OS X builds (not for cocoa apps, but for a CLI tool) in TravisCI, but I can tell you that their build box offerings are much weaker than what you c
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
This is exactly the kind of "Apple is infallable" logic I'm talking about. How exactly does it benefit customers to limit access to safe, cool apps that violate some arcane rule they have? If they actually wanted to do right

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