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by mquander 15y ago
Go look at any documentation or discussion of any non-Java language, and see their examples of using their sequence abstractions, or generators (yield), or first-class functions. Those are not ideas which are unique to C#. If you just want
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't follow this argument. Putting a semicolon at the end of every statement, regardless of what follows, seems to be an even easier way to avoid making this bug.
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by mquander 15y ago
For what it's worth, I find Console2 tolerable. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
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Yeah, but what drives programmers nuts is that most of the problems in the language are totally independent of that ease of accessibility. Is there something about consistent naming, or consistent behavior of different library functions, or
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by mquander 15y ago
Do you care to elaborate? Your whole blog post is spent describing his rude tone, not addressing any of the content of his remarks. It is really, really not obvious to me whether the world would be better off if you and I stopped writing p
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't want Hacker News to be a place where everyone types their opinion, and if they don't have an opinion, they type something else. I care about reading informed experts' thoughts about interesting things, not some guy's display of clev
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by mquander 15y ago
If you even hinted at what your concerns actually are, then I guess people might be better at speculating about whether they are unfounded or not.
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by mquander 15y ago
You'd have to make special case syntax for it and it would just feel bolted on to the language. Plus, tuples lose their usefulness if you have to declare its type to pass it between methods. I think it could be OK even without return type
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by mquander 15y ago
Regarding events: It's a common pattern to pass a function into a method as a callback to do an inversion-of-control kind of thing, like "on error, call this." It would be natural to pass an event with the semantics "on error, fire this e
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by mquander 15y ago
C# programmer for a couple years, and I think C# is OK (it's definitely way ahead of Java or C++) but I've definitely got a big list of things I don't like about it. The top of it reads: - Events and properties aren't first-class, which is
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by mquander 15y ago
I feel like both tools and knowledge coincide more often than not, most of all in programming; so everyone should just teach both tools and knowledge simultaneously and there is no dichotomy to worry about.
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by mquander 15y ago
I think your example is mostly the difference between learning a lot and learning just a tiny bit. It's also the difference between being curious and being a dimwit. Only a dimwit would learn a hundred library calls without ever finding an
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by mquander 15y ago
If you're going to repeat this cliche I think you need to explain how colleges are teaching people to "learn how to learn," how that differs from the way they would teach them "something," and why you think the idea of one without the other
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't know of a paper; it's sold commercially by the author and is closed-source. It's definitely fair to say that it is a combination of MCTS and heuristics. The best I can find at a glance is this post on the computer-go list, where t
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by mquander 15y ago
Some context: This is the first time a computer has beaten a professional in a slow game on a full-size board with a 4-stone handicap or less, putting the computer's strength above that of all but the most dedicated amateur players. Few p
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Record-breaking win in computer Go match vs professional at 4 stones(gogameguru.com)
13 points by mquander 15y ago|6 comments
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What do all the controls in an airline cockpit do?(quora.com)
5 points by mquander 15y ago|0 comments
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by mquander 15y ago
The engaging with the community isn't so that you can make a petition that says, "Are you cool with my game [Y/N]" and have everyone on the Internet sign it. It's so that you can create something which demonstrates an awareness of the cult
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by mquander 15y ago
"The point that I’m trying to make is if you’re going to spent months of your time and thousands of your dollars drafting a concept, hiring a team, and building a free and completely open source video game as a hobby, you better use zombie
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by mquander 15y ago
I honestly don't see the meaningful difference between contacting Github and leaving a silly commit, except that the former would probably get the bug fixed quietly; in contrast, now everybody is aware that the bug existed in Github and is
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by mquander 15y ago
Egor is a human whose motivations were totally obvious and whose actions were transparently harmless (and, in fact, net helpful.) The Github team are behaving foolishly if they can't or won't distinguish that from an "attack." Organization
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by mquander 15y ago
I wish things were different, to be honest, but if you put yourself in the law enforcement officer's point of view, what's the difference between a few tourists enjoying a bottle of wine on the street, and a few drunken hooligans causing t
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by mquander 15y ago
A single blanket assertion with nothing new, no argument, no insight is flamebait , not advice. What part of that comment would tell anything to someone who didn't already believe it? Do you think there is some European reader who has ne
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by mquander 15y ago
I think you might be more successful in spreading this view if you take the time to write a good comment instead of consciously writing a shitty one.
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by mquander 15y ago
Although it's more precise to use the word to mean "a fresh environment that inherits bindings from the parent environment" (your Javascript meaning), a lot of people for whatever reason just use "closure" to mean "any anonymous function" (
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by mquander 15y ago
For the record, "This presents a troublesome, albeit interesting, avenue for further data aggregation, which could be used to target ads or sold to third parties" is a lousy comment too. The problem is not the form, it's the content. Wh
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by mquander 15y ago
Since when is a nice hobby a waste of time? What a rude thing to say.
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That really is not true. I appreciated the post because it gave me a perspective on what life is like for people who aren't like me; it has nothing to do with politics unless you want to start arguing about politics.
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by mquander 15y ago
I think your criticism is of a matter so small that it can barely be seen. Some self-developmental things to learn that will almost never be obsolete in one year (or ten years:) - Patterns and ideas in languages that you haven't been expos
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by mquander 15y ago
I have a better suggestion: flag it and move on.

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