nnq

74 ms·

571.
by nnq 9y ago
I'd be more inclined to day that let mostly encourages you to write zillion-line functions (instead of lots of small ones), simply because with it you "mentally can" since you can see the scope of variables better. But.. do
572.
by nnq 9y ago
> but the lack of "let" mostly killed it for me Can you give an example of code that is improved by let significantly? ...and can't be rewritten in a more readable way without it?
573.
by nnq 9y ago
Does anyone else have the impression the most of the advantages OP lauds Delphy/ObjectPascal for are also present in Go? ...is there any nice cross platform desktop UI system for golang? (with an actual user base... because these thi
574.
by nnq 9y ago
...that's the thing actually: in programming syntax defines semantics because "syntax" is executed and in practice "it means what it does (what is executed)". (Linguists would want to murder me for saying th
575.
by nnq 9y ago
About this particular case: why hasn't Euler's notation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#E... ) become the clear winner? I mean, its the only one that is both not confusing for be
576.
by nnq 9y ago
Imho non-pure is probably ok. Haskell's purity is probably what destroyed any chance of it growing popular enough to have a healthy ecosystem of libraries and community. Anyway, since this has no memory management, neither rust-like no
577.
by nnq 9y ago
> Good luck with that setup if you are working in finance and something fucks up or there's an audit. ...don't most companies have a clear separation between (1) software engineers , whose job is pushing out code to cloud&#x2F
578.
by nnq 9y ago
Is this a "pure" language like Haskell? Or it's more like OCaml? And, even if it's not pure, is there any syntactic sugar for monads? Anyway, this looks awesome, especially with easy C++ interfacing that seems to be
579.
by nnq 9y ago
> how can I still feel calm when I fail to support them If your family can't continue "functioning" (like in pay rent maybe for a smaller place, pay for medical, pay for children's education) with only 1 active member
580.
by nnq 9y ago
100% Agree. And this is my 2 cents of WHY: Basically all current investments are high-risk in the age we live in, because we are "at the brink of the chasm" on all fronts: - general technology: ...the barriers to market are so
581.
by nnq 9y ago
Not-so-on-topic question: although I see that Babylon is more of a 3D-engine (like three.js) than a game engine, I see it has game-engine features too... How would it compare with a clear web-game-engine like playcanvas? Are people buildi
582.
by nnq 9y ago
maybe running the one app that's special in a VM instead of doing it the other way around... the reverse only sometimes makes sense when that app is Mac app because there can be too much pain to do it otherwise... hence I underst
583.
by nnq 9y ago
I never quite get developers that don't use a system most similar with they deployment target... If I develop web apps intended to run on -nix, I use Linux, if I develop Windows stuff, I use Windows etc. It creates a huge understandi
584.
by nnq 9y ago
> nobody can just sit together and cooperate Doesn't work. If you want fast standardization at all costs, only way to it by forced standardization with "obey or goto gulag" orders send from a "tyrannical governmen
585.
by nnq 9y ago
> the working poor somehow lack moral fortitude NOPE. More like they feel abused by society, so they rightfully abuse it back by taking as much as they can and giving as little as possible. Of course, the result is a vicious cycle th
586.
by nnq 9y ago
Hmm... then I'll label myself a "conceptual-kinesthetic" learner, that'll surely confuse the hell outta' everyone. It kinda makes sense, in a way what I'm doing in my head while learning is like "simulatio
587.
by nnq 9y ago
> In my experience, people just don't. Agree. Most don't. Most learn best by example and by "partial imitation" not by 1st hand experience ... Unfortunately :( This is why I find it frustrating when I try to
588.
by nnq 9y ago
> credentials and prestige are something tangible you can point to and prove you did your job Like in "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"? Seems like they've just copied a page from an the old book... and this still
589.
by nnq 9y ago
Yeah, Tesla may fail to ship a safe LIDAR-less car. But the problem of making a self-driving car without LIDAR or something equivalent is awesomely challenging! An I bet Andrej Karpathy will really enjoy working on it. And the tech resu
590.
by nnq 9y ago
"Software estimation is a chicken and egg problem. So I will try to solve it from first principles: how long did it take for dinosaurs to evolve into chickens?"
591.
Async patterns in Node.js: only 4+ different ways to do it(medium.com)
2 points by nnq 9y ago|0 comments
592.
by nnq 9y ago
Mostly offtopic, but: Is it just me, or based on both politics, social dynamics and economic indicators, Japan is economically speaking a house of cards waiting to fucking fall apart in a huuuuge crysis?! I mean, I guess that aged popul
593.
by nnq 9y ago
The safety and regulation issues that would need to be overcome kind of ensures that this drone delivery service would only be started by Amazon or some other giant, probably also making it available to others. But brick & mortar retail
594.
by nnq 9y ago
Q: Know that joke about the self-driving-car engineer who walks into a trucker bar? A: 'course you don't, he never lived to tell it...
595.
by nnq 9y ago
Generally you don't refer to the time dimension when talking about local/global optima, you're talking about "points in the space of possible parameters" or here "particular combinations of laws/rules from
596.
by nnq 9y ago
Indeed, first time I come across such a website where scrolling is not jittery as f and either too slow or too fast! I generally hate these kinds of website, but this one seems executed flawlessly. ...or maybe kudos to the Chrome/Web
597.
by nnq 9y ago
> Man people could have probably agreed with what you wrote until "And be honest with yourself ...yeah, that's the bigger problem imho, most people are far from honest with themselves :) And then some people, instead of doing s
598.
by nnq 9y ago
> laws and rules must be based upon logic to be effective and good for society Yeah, but let's not forget that "civilized society" is a necessary evil - we accept it simply because we know no better way to minimize suffe
599.
by nnq 9y ago
EDIT: my point (3) from above obviously belongs under the second bullet point and should be labeled (1)... did a stupid text moving around and a renumbering thing I guess... sorry for the confusion and hope you didn't understand backwa
600.
by nnq 9y ago
...but, why? I'm not an american, and I can see from an ocean away (pun intended) that they're incredibly politically biased, but once you ignore their political stance, the actual content of their articles is very good and in

More ›