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by lsd5you 16y ago
I understand this, but my point is this. They add features to java e.g. generics and all the tools (IDEs) have to make adjustments to catch up. It seems to me that similarly sized adjustments could be made to support a newer cleaner version
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Have you even ever used Groovy? It is not the exact same syntax at all. It is merely similar and there are plenty of ways of writing valid java which is not valid groovy. Not to mention groovy has all sorts of corner cases, terrible efficie
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Consistency really isn't that big an issue, the remarked points are really just details. (Of course in Javascript the use of == really is an issue). The concept of equals is not as pure as it would like to be but it is not clear what can be
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I would say some people don't want to get it. There are plenty of toy languages and interactive calculators such as logo and which allow simple definitions of functions similar to the 'ideal' given. However noone would suggest writing compl
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by lsd5you 16y ago
What I never understood was why backwards compatability was not overcome by simply changing the file suffix. A second fixed up version (something like Ceylon) could be mixed in with old Java code. Just change the suffix to .java2 to signify
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Sorry, but this argument is the worst kind of wrong - it is half true. 100.00000% consistency/availability is of course impossible in any circumstances. 'It is only relevant for a few dozen companies' ... because of size/volume. Your argume
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by lsd5you 16y ago
It is not 100% clear from the examples cited that scaling should necessitate the consistency issues they have. Surely it is quite straight forwards to scale user private data (i.e. 'sharding' on user data) such as position in play and the q
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by lsd5you 16y ago
There are a number of issues with the article. Some work - any development of technology - can be second order. The workers output maybe constant but the productivity of the underlying product grows. In this sense comparing national to pers
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Which is what is so frustrating about major corporations and their approach to the law. Or rather how the law is enforced. Small deviations from speed limits are not particularly harmful, but small deviations from the standardisation proces
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Scala subsetting (as mentioned in the comments) sounds like a promising avenue. Especially if it were to result in better performing tools. Unfortunately for all the great features scala does have, Java has a few killer features that it lac
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by lsd5you 16y ago
There is a point there to be made, but it is a strawman nevertheless. Code reuse is infact sometimes and often desirable, and even gasp if it does turn up the level of expertise required to use/work with a particular library/framework. Th
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Personally I think that it is unnecessarily agrandising language. That AI has since improved independently of Minsky does not really have anything to do with it. Also it can be a fine line between having civil discussion and becoming an ech
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Would that be father of AI as in father of the flying car?
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by lsd5you 16y ago
It is probably just price differentiation. Probably app store customers are less frugal, and others will appreciate the illusion of a good deal and go and by the boxed copy.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I suppose the counter point is that teachers are 'underpaid' for their intelligence, when compared to workers. There is probably an element of that since teaching is vocational and most people entering the profession do so in the knowledge
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I had to reread both of these comments a couple of times, before it dawned on me why you disagreed - correctly. Since I am from the UK public school reads 'posh elite school', not 'state school' so it had an opposite sense to my thinking. A
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Not at all. That would be part of the other 50% ... going with that number. In fact your remark is quite confused. 50% is the variation in a 'typical' population. If everyone had access to public schools genetics would be more important.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I feel that you are omitting genetics as a possible (probable) significant cause of academic success, which because of the corelation with the parents own academic success will be hard to disambiguate as a variable. According to horizon (a
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by lsd5you 16y ago
And any country with democratic or people's in it's name, is not democratic or belonging to the people (Democratic Republic of North Korea, of Congo, PRC ... )
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Although, presumably this effect will get arbitraged away as people become more aware of it. There will be a rush hour at the optimum time, negating its advantage somewhat.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Nothing you've written here contradicts what I wrote, because it is a matter of degrees, which you completely fail to acknowledge in your view point. A proportion of teenagers in some groups in some parts of society texting privately amongs
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Yeah, but who gets to decide what the cutoff for "porn" is? Somebody, using consensual guidelines. You are perhaps mistaking the UK for America. It isn't a battle between constitutional rights and puritanical religous nuts. People are gen
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I suppose you should define damaging. Presumably you're relating violence to homicide and other violent crime. I can think of an equally plausible (and equally unverified) analysis. Depicted violence is clearly fantasy and generally bears
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Perhaps instead of an opt-in for pornography, they could present it as a mandatory opt one way or the other.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Probably a contraversial opinion here, but I think it is a good idea. Parents are often behind their kids on this one, and the current status quo is massively out of kilter with the state of, say, TV censorship - which people are reasonably
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EBuild - Java based build system
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by lsd5you 16y ago
The issue is not whether the claim is plausible or not, but that in fact it is virtually impossible to verify. We know that statistics like this are not true on aggregate, otherwise we would be many times happier, more productive and more i
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Google thrives on messy heuristics so it is perhaps unsurprising that they would view the problem from this perspective. I tend to agree with you that optimally all email should be read (and that this is realistically achievable in most cas
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by lsd5you 16y ago
As others have said, this is just not really true. It is distorted thinking that is driven by a desire to see the tenets of egalitarianism in the real world. It is as if (excuse the dorky analogy) we are all D&D characters with 100pts t
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by lsd5you 16y ago
I feel a bit for Martin as a non-native English speaker. It can be very easy for the native speakers to dominate a discussion unintentionally (and even when trying not to). The impression Erlang gives me is one of being almost an anti-langu

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