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by nnq 9y ago
> Syntax does have its bikeshedders, but semantics are what make people move or stay. There are at least two big exceptions to this rule: - 1. Lisps - some people (some of them really smart btw), just can't stand lispy syntax (I
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by nnq 9y ago
Yeah, I always wanted to find the time to re-give OCaml a try after reading about ReasonML... I'm kind of put off after having tried Haskell and seeing now OCaml as an "inferior Haskell", and after looking at F# and seeing it
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by nnq 9y ago
That sounds like an imaginary non-problem. In such an extreme case, the APL developer would just have to put up with that line broken into 10 lines maybe. Just configure his editor accordingly (maybe to move through text like there are no n
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by nnq 9y ago
NO. Far from it. I can't work on a codebase with a colleague, me writing/reading the code in Scala, he/she writing/reading the same code in Java or Kotlin. I can't code a project in Clojure, then hand it over to a t
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by nnq 9y ago
Lisps are like tiling window managers... Some have a taste for them. Most, don't. Unfortunately some of the Lisp cool features are hard to implement without its simple syntax. Maybe the lesson is that we should find a f way to have sy
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by nnq 9y ago
your irony stack is too deep for hn, it might overflow soon
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by nnq 9y ago
As a long-time Gnome user, I've only realized how bad it is after reading this comment ;) (No irony here, I agree it's truly horrible now.) But, I only realized it now because almost none of the apps I regularly use make use of
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by nnq 9y ago
> 4. Allow multiple identities to link to a single user account Hallelujah! Finally someone like Google recommends this, so I'm no longer going to be called for crazily overengineering it every time I suggest this... Pretty ple
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by nnq 9y ago
> Byproducts of breaking down sugar in the blood stream gradually dissolve the blood-brain barrier. HUH?! Where did you get this "fact" from, I'm curious? The causal link you refer to might be true, but the "mechanism
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by nnq 9y ago
I generally agree with you. My "begrudging" was mostly misdirected anger at the parent poster's attitude of labeling as "flawed personality" the act of very rarely and softly lashing out at society every now and the
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by nnq 9y ago
> did his finger to nVidia in any way improve relations between Linux & nVidia Purely anecdotal evidence, but in my experience the few pieces of hardware that I can generally bet they'll be fine with Linux are those branded In
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by nnq 9y ago
> Being socially inept is [...] a personality flaw. That's a very dangerous and messed up reasoning. For a significant proportion of the population "society" is just a nasty scheme we put up with since we know not better w
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by nnq 9y ago
Why is the top comment on this about engineering culture?! Linus is valuable precisely because he occasionally d-slaps people around, waking them up, even when what he says may be factually wrong, and reminding them the at the core t
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by nnq 9y ago
wansn't R-CNN already superseded by YOLO[1]? didn't read the article, but no mention of it to compare itself to, so seems outdated maybe. anyone had the time to dig deeper into this? [1] https://pjreddie.com/media&
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by nnq 9y ago
Huh?! ever seen a c++ project not using any pre-C++17 code?! If it's there, sooner or later you're going to have to debug through it :) Anyway, C++ is nothing but boring... even the bugs you encounter are nothing bu extremely
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by nnq 9y ago
Python is a boring technology. It's a 10+ years old language, like ~20 years behind cutting edge programming language research and implementation. Also, as for the programming style it encourages, it strongly nudges you against any
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by nnq 9y ago
> If you're doing something exciting, pick a boring technology. Not being exceedingly serious here but... you pretty much summed up why Python is so successful in AI/ML and science ;)
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by nnq 9y ago
...maybe it's because today the higher quality ones are about stuff most of us don't understand? When a field is young you have "quality at the bottom level", but it's not really young anymore.
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by nnq 9y ago
You're ignoring the "cognitive load" and "attention requirements" of the mythical "correct and efficient" interface. Sometimes I want to use 99.999% of my brain for something else and I want to mindlessly
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by nnq 9y ago
yeah, it would be harder to make and sell "handicaped" configurations to users for high prices, forcing them to prematurely upgrade... hence everybody would milk less money from the end-users. also, some still sell 5400 RPM HDDs (
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by nnq 9y ago
oh c'mon... there's an LCD/OLED display showing the time clearly. This is so much better than ANY alternative that any critique is nitpicking. (Though, to be honest, I have a very old white with black marks microwave that avo
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by nnq 9y ago
It works, and it's fast to use. But it's for commercial/professional usage, where doing a set of standard common tasks with fewer number of actions is best. Having home/office-use microwaves work like this is basically a
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by nnq 9y ago
> makes it all make sense Yeah, I know this kind of thinking... To many people have it. Hopefully I can try to "cure" at least a few from the "need for things to make sense" and to teach them to think more from the fi
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by nnq 9y ago
> natural next steps This never works... People need to be forced into developing solution by creating more problems while solving existing one. Like "shit, the mars colony got wiped out by a diseases, no more humans to repair the s
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by nnq 9y ago
> The only purpose for space is science No, it's not. Fuck science, it's just a tool. The goal is GROWTH and MULTIPLICATION and CONQUEST! We should learn to be proud of our "viral" nature and start acting more like it
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by nnq 9y ago
Why don't more people realize that infecting as much of the cosmos with ourselves should be one of the MAIN GOALS of Humanity?! Ergo, space exploration technology should be a priority, even at massive costs, and even when those cost
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by nnq 9y ago
> is there any reason [...] which justifies the price THIS kind of thinking is our problem imho - we are living in rich times and we should start behaving as such! We have more of everything than we need. Yeah, there are children sta
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by nnq 9y ago
What we desperately need is a way to reverse-brainwash the workaholics that spoil the labor market by willing to work more than 6 hrs a day. If we could figure out a clever way to penalize them for working more we could damn enjoy the
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by nnq 9y ago
> we are never satisfied with a stable standard of living ...yes we are. Thankfully, nowadays more and more people "drop out" of "traditional media exposed society" and the brainwashing is starting to wear off. Too ba
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by nnq 9y ago
> Population increased also If this were really the problem, it would be pretty easy to solve... (HINT: this isn't really the problem!)

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