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by nocman 9y ago
People are entitled to their opinions, and they are entitled to share them on HN. There are plenty of reasons to like Electron, and there are also plenty of reasons to say "ugh, Electron". Instead of saying "Let's keep
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by nocman 9y ago
Don't feel too bad. I never even thought about it for a long time after being introduced to his work, and I had made the same mistake. I believe at some point I heard someone pronounce it correctly in a video lecture, and I thought th
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by nocman 9y ago
It's got nothing to do with his age, as far as I can tell Don Knuth has always spoken this way (though I suspect it may have gotten more pronounced [ no pun intended ] as he has gotten older). I agree with what others have said. I thi
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by nocman 9y ago
1) floppy was not big loss at the time -- not even close to the same thing 2) CDROM -- was just about as obsolete at the time it was removed -- also not even close to the same thing 3) flash -- well that did cause some people problems, but
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by nocman 9y ago
I suspect that SRFI 49 went as far as it did in an attempt to reduce ambiguity (but I haven't spent much time looking at it, so take that with a grain of salt). I understand why people prefer the combination of infix expressions and a
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by nocman 9y ago
"remember that the original question was: ...moved to Java/dotnet/python platforms...Is there a reason to use C++ any more?" ^ Yeah, and I specifically addressed that possibility in my original response to you. I was jus
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by nocman 9y ago
I get where you are coming from, and I also think there is a line where it seems you can't say anything without having to qualify it so much that it becomes annoying. It was not clear to me whether gcp's statement was supposed to
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by nocman 9y ago
"When a developer is negligent and user data is compromised, do they take responsibility? No." ^ Well, replace "negligent" with "makes a mistake", and I've taken responsibility plenty of times. Situations
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by nocman 9y ago
My point was that the statement "C++ still produces the fastest and most memory efficient programs." is basically meaningless without any context. There are a fair number of situations where other languages can beat C++ in either
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by nocman 9y ago
"parens ... make them optional ... and I would argue (again at my peril) that if it was optional in a lisp-style language as well, that would be great." ^ making parens optional in a lisp would IMHO make everything more complicat
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by nocman 9y ago
Fastest compared to what? Everything? That is definitely not true. If you were referring to Java/dotnet/python, well yeah. (I'm honestly curious to know what you meant).
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by nocman 9y ago
"Only the insane write code without tab or space indentation" ^ um, and who exactly suggested that? Certainly not me. And if you think lisp style languages are generally written without tab or space indention, then you clearly
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by nocman 9y ago
"replacing every curly bracket with 20 parenthesis (minor hyperbole)" It isn't even minor hyperbole, it's just plain false. It has been my experience that, generally speaking, the combination of curly brackets { }, squar
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by nocman 9y ago
Here again is another example of the subtlety of words. The fact that someone "accepts" a situation doesn't automatically mean that they are happy about it, and it also doesn't mean that they do nothing to change it. It
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by nocman 9y ago
Yeah I knew someone would come back with that -- but that's only true if you tie a very strict one-to-one meaning between every use of the verb "accept" and the adjective "acceptable". Words have subtle meanings. I
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by nocman 9y ago
Just because people have accepted something doesn't mean they deem it "acceptable". When your choices are "use a service and be monitored" or "don't use the service", it can be quite limiting if you r
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by nocman 9y ago
Which, in my estimation, makes this "invention" even MORE obvious.
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by nocman 9y ago
Because if an "invention" is obvious it isn't patentable ( http://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/103.html ), and many many people see this as being far too obvious to be patentable.
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by nocman 9y ago
less parentheses, but not less bracket-like characters. If you count parens and curlies, it is exactly the same. Yours has 4 parens and 2 curlies (not including the format string), and the original lisp code has 6 parens.
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by nocman 9y ago
Ah the memories. 100 pages of content and 1100 pages of ads. :D
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by nocman 9y ago
Haha! Thank you sir for the laugh! I needed that today. xD
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by nocman 9y ago
If you are curious about why you are totally wrong, his comment was NOT unnecessary, and it DID add substance. I had never heard of Mitch Hedberg, and therefore did not get the quote, and now I have enjoyed several clips of his comedy r
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by nocman 9y ago
Qt Creator is also a fairly decent front-end to gdb ( http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/index.html ).
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by nocman 9y ago
Lots of "sane" people would (at least for Perl 5). I know it's not "the new hotness", but Perl 5 is still an incredibly useful language that a lot of people know (present company included). There are extensive li
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by nocman 9y ago
not true. There is still a lot of new Perl 5 code being written. Most of it is likely not very high profile, but it is still used a lot.
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by nocman 9y ago
And you can read it for nothing, if you are interested: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/HigherOrderPerl.pdf
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by nocman 9y ago
I totally get the attraction of actually buying something physical, and it was fun as a kid to look through the stuff that came with an album. As is being discussed elsewhere about this article, it is similar to the difference between buyi
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by nocman 9y ago
No, I don't think I missed the point. My point was that he was unnecessarily tying the listener's activeness/seriousness/whatever with/about the music to the medium it was on. I totally get the point about there bei
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by nocman 9y ago
While I can understand the nostalgia of playing music on a record player (many of us had lots of records when we were younger), and how that experience could be different for you, perhaps in a very pleasant way, I find the idea that the exp
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by nocman 9y ago
"Real Estate agents provide an entirely 100% superfluous service". While I definitely agree that the amount of money realtors get for selling a home is ridiculously high, the above statement is definitely NOT true (and I've

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