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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Ah, your point makes more sense now. Immutability would help a lot here, it seems.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
If you really did have a case where your list is a list of apples, wouldn't you type: List<Apple> apples = aps If you're using a general type Fruit, and can't stand any fruit that isn't an apple, you probably need
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Consider a hypothetical situation where we have to print a lot of currency to repay our debts. Foreign debt-holders realize that they are effectively getting robbed by our monetary policy and complain to their governments. Those governmen
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I use both, for different things. Clojure is more easily concurrent, and I love ClojureScript, so I tend to use it for web applications. OCaml is extremely useful for native code (I write a lot of personal productivity tools in OCaml).
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Viewing Rust as a panacea for security issues is certainly misguided. However, people should at least attempt to use a more memory safe language to write this stuff. If it proves to be worse code, then we're not forced to use it - we
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Ask HN: What is your preferred way to handle UTF8 strings in OCaml?
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Who cares if he didn't mention her by name? I refer to my own mother using pronouns sometimes - it's a feature of the English language. What about using pronouns in place of a proper name is problematic to you?
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I would be very unhappy if a coworker added me on FB immediately after joining, and I'm the kind of person who's okay with having some coworkers as FB friends. I probably don't know them, and now I'm in a position where
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I personally use this in place of R, where possible: https://github.com/incanter/incanter
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I fully agree that his version has flaws, and I certainly am not convinced that he presents a credible case against using React. But to be fair, I think part of his rationale for doing things this way is to avoid the configuration needed t
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
The article mentions that, and the author shares your sentiments. His point is that the wealthy lose perspective on the financial hardships of poorer people, leading to thoughtless actions/comments that grate on the poor over time. H
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Looks like this is a trolling attempt. The comment was subtly changed and the author, https://github.com/ingIor , is a misspelling of inglor and has no contributions.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I've found that it makes sense to outline what actions it is convenient to view on screen at any given time, and group those things into an app (here, one JS file that is served along with some HTML by the server). So my typical applic
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
This says more about the state of experimental methods in psychology than it does about the employability of cancer survivors.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
To a3voices: Violence occurs along a spectrum. Punching != trying to kill, in all cases.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
> So why are we trying to differentiate lisps, given that they're excellent? I think the best way to look at this question is to think about who "we" is. Are the sum total of programmers using lisp coordinating to make a f
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
While I'm sure this gets abused, I think many of the people who use and enjoy Angular limit it to developing web apps. When I use Angular for something, it's a true web app, and I need to be able to execute client side code. Whe
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I reject the racial explanation too. I had the same problem as a white male. I went to a small private school in the Midwest; I had no full-time related work experience at the time (despite part-time jobs and internships throughout colleg
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
They (Sen. Wyden and Sen. Paul) are going over backdoors in encryption right now.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Rape fantasies are very prevalent among women This in particular could do with a citation; it's a contentious topic and would do better with some formal verification.
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
Many people have expressed here that EVE takes up an inordinate chunk of your life, to the point where you ignore other things you should be doing. Perhaps OP is assuming we know that, and is making the point that some of the excess should
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I would try any one of these: * Volunteer * Take up an outdoor hobby * Learn a new spoken language * Read a seminal work in a vastly different field from computer science (say, "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Freud) [Edited for
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by ohnomrbill 11y ago
I would argue that if someone requires a shock to act like they care, then they are probably overestimating the amount they care. I don't say this to be a dick, but rather to point out that this particular argument sounds very hollow
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by ohnomrbill 12y ago
Why should I try to interpret comments in the best possible light? I could make an effort to interpret them in the worst possible light, too. I have no reason to believe that internet commenters mean well.
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by ohnomrbill 12y ago
“It’s been acknowledged all of these years. I don’t think there is any other craft or union in which practitioners need to practice their art." - Ed Asner, in the article posted. Am I misreading this, or does he really think that other
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by ohnomrbill 12y ago
This seems to touch on the biggest problem I have with libertarianism. Things which require constant maintenance are fixed in spurts. Some wealthy Hondurans may eventually decide that the situation with their roads is annoying and worth f