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by maw 8y ago
> The JS ecosystem manages to have two tools, both of which can do all of this. I don't know how we keep messing up when we have good prior work to look at. Agreed. You know you really blew it when even PHP does it better, and comp
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by maw 8y ago
> English grammar is far simpler than German grammar. How do you negate in English? How does one eloquently and idiomatically combine English modal verbs? What are the rules governing when and how English deviates from SVO? Whom is sti
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by maw 8y ago
Let's just say that that's not exactly what happened in Alexandria.
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by maw 8y ago
Yes, that's it. Thanks, and thanks too to pianom4n. And, yeah, Mike ought to have paid.
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by maw 8y ago
Could be a different story, but I have this vague recollection of someone who, by taking advantage of sloppy wording, won a bet against someone else who said he couldn't compress random data. This was a long time ago, maybe as long as
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by maw 8y ago
If that were viable people would already be doing it. It's not, and so very few people are. I wish this weren't the case but it is.
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by maw 8y ago
That obviously isn't how it should have been done, but the real problem here is that the packaging system makes it too easy to do this in the first place. If you use pre and post and preun and postun (rpm terminology) it almost always
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by maw 8y ago
Except that Islamic culture drew heavily on them too, especially the Greeks. Those of us who consider ourselves Western are right to consider the Greeks and Romans among our cultural forebears, but we're not the only ones who can or sh
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by maw 8y ago
I thought the same, and assumed that they'd made it public as a way to showcase positive corporate culture.
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by maw 8y ago
1) realize you may never “master this beast” Damn, I've been using it for a bit over 21 years and was hoping that I'd almost gotten a handle on it! Oh well, might as well resign myself to it.
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by maw 8y ago
Don't forget about the comments that read, basically, "why haven't you googled this, peon?" usually found in the first hit, often the first several hits, in Google.
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by maw 8y ago
Not all things called "comics" are always funny all the time.
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by maw 9y ago
Sort of related -- I'm sure this made it to HN when it was new -- is https://beebo.org/haycorn/2015-04-20_tabs-and-makefiles.html .
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by maw 9y ago
You're assuming that accidents are equally likely with and without helmets and ignoring OP's point that, on balance, you're better off biking without a helmet than not biking at all. You might actually be right here. I do no
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by maw 9y ago
Between where and where? A lot of the obvious routes are terrible, but you can go a long way in this city zigging where everyone else zags. Avoid the bike lanes for the most part, though. You're probably in more danger in one of our b
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by maw 9y ago
Citation needed. (FWIW, I always use a helmet except when I use shared bikes, which is rare, only a few times a year. I get on one of my own bikes, helmeted, hundreds of times a year.)
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by maw 9y ago
Sure, that exact code is unlikely to be an honest mistake, but couldn't it be a distilled example of much more complicated code where that mistake -- unexpected or undocumented sideeffectiness -- was made honestly?
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by maw 9y ago
Is it? I'm a fan, but my perception is that for most people their career started and ended with Creep, and not only that, but the "you're so very special" cut of Creep.
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by maw 9y ago
but if a VCS came along that natively knew about some languages it could unlock some really cool features Absolutely, although hopefully it'll be implemented using langserver or similar. Conversely, I think programming languages (and
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by maw 9y ago
I agree that it's oddly phrased. Empirically, it is true that if you start from English you can probably learn Spanish more quickly than German, but it doesn't necessarily follow that Spanish is more similar. After all, Spanish do
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by maw 9y ago
Lots of programmers haven't, though. I get addresses rejected as invalid when signing up for some service at least once a month.
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by maw 9y ago
Is "Is Google Making Us Stupid" making us stupid?
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Quicktype's big debut(blog.quicktype.io)
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by maw 9y ago
The only kind of person who would say that is a na—Sorry. Never mind.
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by maw 9y ago
Where I live dudes on bikes do the last mile of a lot of Amazon deliveries.
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by maw 9y ago
One of those is basically the same as tilt to scroll, something that actually exists. Why anybody in the history of ever thought it was a good idea I'll likely never understand, though.
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by maw 9y ago
Yes, definitely thou dost.
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by maw 9y ago
Probably "using machine learning" means a test administered with and graded by computers.
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by maw 9y ago
On the contrary, I dislike PHP because I find it so difficult: its bad documentation, its badly designed standard API, the many badly designed and badly documented frameworks to replace the badly designed API, and the core language that goe
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by maw 10y ago
I think the reason was to work around too simplistic minifiers and concatenators.

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