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by nnq 10y ago
> A language with some consistency would be a start. Your forget what species you're talking with here, and the language you're using to communicate right now :) When has Homo Sapiens ever exerted consistency in language des
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by nnq 10y ago
Cool... but nitpick about the parsing part (only glanced at it): why do people always forget about parser combinators and don't present them as obviously 'the first thing to try' when making a new language?! They seem the s
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by nnq 10y ago
Wow, a language that actually allows you to build such complex abstractions without getting lost in them, runs them fast enough, and gives you tools to debug them. That's... COOL! It makes me a bit sad I spend my workdays in dynamic
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by nnq 10y ago
So you're rephrasing the question to mean that you see it as 'hunter gatherer mode' thinking (doing it in a practical and short term economically-successful way) vs. 'civilized builder mode' thinking (doing it the w
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by nnq 10y ago
Hi Alan, the question that troubles me now and I want to ask you is: Why do you think there is always a difference between: A. the people who know best how something should be done , and B. the people who end up doing it in a practical
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by nnq 10y ago
The article's reasoning only works if you assume you're extracting gasoline already refined from the earth. You're not. I'd bet the energetic cost of refining gasoline from crude oil is much larger than that for the co
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by nnq 10y ago
Let me guess... it still can't just automagically auto-complete, auto-param infos and jump-to-definitions, based on requires in nodejs projects (and, no, not for TS, for plain JS)? Seems like a pretty low bar... but at 1.0 they were st
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by nnq 10y ago
That 7th century cult would've been defeated by Syria's military and other forces. How about letting countries defend themselves and fight their own wars and revolutions instead of interfering in their internal politics and maki
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by nnq 10y ago
Really bad for code though... - the difference between uppercase and lowercase is too low making camelCase very hard to read - the colon is aligned to the left of its space making ":=" look horrible - "$" is hard to
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by nnq 10y ago
> Even if it means direct neural interfaces, considering that we're 20 years out using the current approach, maybe that isn't so far fetched. To be economically viable, the tech needs to be sold to be mass-sold directly to cons
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by nnq 10y ago
Nothing to debate. There isn't. Let's stop wasting brainpower on this. Too much empty and meaningless philosophical discussion has unfortunately been revived by recent advanced in ML/AI. This is sad. Especially because I beli
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by nnq 10y ago
> Doors are very useful to have Then I'd use them as some kind of status token, to gamify things a bit. Mangers would have offices with doors by necessity, for private conversations with employees etc. And for the rest, if you are a
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by nnq 10y ago
It's slightly amusing that everyone seem to miss the huge difference between: A. Individual office with open door B. Open plan office I'd imagine the ideal would be individual offices with no doors: This would create
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by nnq 11y ago
Don't want to start a flamewar but... why choose OCaml over Haskell nowadays? Want purity, elegance and best community resources? Go with Haskell. Want Functional+OOP+kitchensink? Go with Scala. Want .NET? Go with F#. Want a strict&#x2
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by nnq 11y ago
Couldn't resist making thing into a Happy Easter greeting card: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgtuYxRWsAItlXN.jpg:large
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by nnq 11y ago
Out of curiosity: can a developer totally foreign to .NET, C#, and Windows programming in general become productive with F#? (I mean, without having to learn the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem)
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by nnq 11y ago
The saddest thing not said is that we live in a society where we need to have professionals paid to care because most of are too unavailable to just care because... uhm... you know... we are all f human beings!
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by nnq 11y ago
Can you give some examples of corruption that actually hindered you? I consider corruption to be a minor-to-non-existent problem for areas like IT/tech here. The main problem to me is the lack of entrepreneurship and the fact that ther
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by nnq 11y ago
> The same physical arrangement happens when undergrads see a Nobel Prize winner speak. Undergrads are the paying customers in you example, so they are in charge and the Nobel Prize winner is delivering a service they have paid for
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by nnq 11y ago
> than paying someone to maintaining it yourself You do realize that this is probably THE reason to open-source a piece of custom software after you've built it, right? ...I imagine that they expect the community will do X% of the
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by nnq 11y ago
I still don't get it why people get so excited with every new even-more-scalable DB yet at the same time completely ignore what's happening with things like graph DBs or hybrid-document-graph DBs that seem so f cool! Also... w
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by nnq 11y ago
> there is a lot of hate for Python's "kitchen sink" library in JavaScript world Is there? Most "js people" have never had the pleasureful experience of working with a "pleasantly opinionated " languag
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by nnq 11y ago
...maybe it's time a committee of really smart people sit and sip through all the most used modules below N lines of code or smth, and just write an opensource JS-stdlib, hopefully merging in top 30% most used methods of Lodash too?
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by nnq 11y ago
...the "destroying" part seems like a pretty good thing imho. Setting some forests on fire to make room for some new sprouts seems pretty appealing :) "Community destruction" in the online landscape is pretty much a syno
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by nnq 11y ago
From modern evolutionary biology's perspective "individual organisms" are NOT the "basic units/modules etc." of life. The basic ones are genes at the core informational level level and species at more loose
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by nnq 11y ago
Am I the only one who believes app stores should have a minimum mandatory price of like $5 (maybe geographically customizable)?! And yes, you should also be allowed to publish free apps, but they should be really-free , so if you set y
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by nnq 11y ago
I think the source of my infos for that particular affirmation is Alan Watts and a post from a Japanese buddhist monk. I really don't know about Tibetan monks, and A.W. is entertaining but far from trustworthy. So you should check this
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by nnq 11y ago
Side note on the "mystic flavor" yoga (as oppose to plain "mindfullness meditation" and "yoga for back pains") and other "eastern" spirituality things: I think there's a reason why there are so m
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by nnq 11y ago
- first example: that's because a patent shouldn't simply expire if no royalty is paid for it. (As an aside: the clock should start ticking for the first time someone starts selling a product implementing it. And patent royalties
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by nnq 11y ago
NO. It's the fact that the actual inventors of an idea can get some of the value from their idea instead of the one lucky company that finally manages to get an idea to market and make profit from it. Software's is full of brill

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