nv-vn

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1. 721.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   As much as programming required the same code over and over, there's still a whole lot of thinking that needs to be applied - at the core, there's the need to think like a computer just to solve the problem itself; on top of that
2. 722.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   I'm honestly not all that surprised, seeing as nearly every "technology in education" initiative really just amounts to using iPads for virtual textbooks. If schools used the technology to enrich education (specifically where
3. 723.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   OCaml is super general purpose. You can write low-ish level code (there have been 2 kernels partially written in it) as well as higher level stuff (web servers/scripts on the pages using tools like js_of_ocaml, Coq, etc.). Where it rea
4. 724.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   As someone who writes fairly SML-ish OCaml, there definitely are benefits to using OCaml (even if only for the library and tool support... opam really is pretty awesome) over SML. I rarely end up even using the object system and other featu
5. 725.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   >For someone new to the codebase who knows nothing of the giant abstraction, which do you think is easier to grasp: 10 lines of code that only make sense if you know the abstraction, or 20 or 100 lines of code that can be understood on t
6. 726.▲
   by nv-vn 11y ago

   They recently started blocking XMPP ports which is quite an annoyance. I literally can't think of a single logical reason they would even do that.