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811.
by olavk 12y ago
The article is written from an American perspective: War is something happening far from home and the participants are men in the military, which (if they survive) may return to peace and safety after service have ended. The perspective is
812.
by olavk 12y ago
> Kids don't read comic books and don't care to. > And it's interesting to ask why, when kids elsewhere do, and when US kids used to. Yeah, interesting question. I believe the reason is many more easily accessible alter
813.
by olavk 12y ago
I think this wording is misleading: > Everything in JavaScript acts like an object, with the only two exceptions being null and undefined. The 'scalars' - string, number and boolean - only behaves like objects in the limited se
814.
by olavk 12y ago
The sf movie 'Her' has a very Apple-like feel in the production design. Great movie, but of course a totally different feel.
815.
by olavk 12y ago
GET is the most appropriate method for many forms, eg. search interfaces. It is not just a question of backwards compatibility.
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by olavk 12y ago
> I've studied Quran too and a bit of comparative religion and nowhere did I find any instance where it preaches violence Then you didn't read the actual Quran. I will not claim that the Quran is more violent than other holy bo
817.
by olavk 12y ago
Aren't GET forms still the default choice for search engines like Google? Otherwise you couldn't bookmark a search.
818.
by olavk 12y ago
The old testament is incredible violent, with literal genocides ordered by God. I struggle to see how anybody who have read both could consider it less violent than the Quran.
819.
by olavk 12y ago
Muslim terrorists in general are also in opposition to mainstream Islam. They are extremists, just as Breivik is an extremist.
820.
by olavk 12y ago
I'm not saying western Christianity in general is violent! Certainly Breivik is a lone extremist with absolutely no support by any mainstream church. But it doesn't change the fact that he was a christian and what he considered ch
821.
by olavk 12y ago
Western Christianity certainly haven't left violence behind. Just take the christian terrorist Anders Brevik who killed 80 people in Norway.
822.
by olavk 12y ago
GET in forms is useful for query interfaces, eg. a search engine. A search should be safe, idempotent and all parameters encoded in the URL. GET is the correct choice for that.
823.
by olavk 12y ago
HTML is designed for REST. Which is why a form does not support arbitrary HTTP methods, but only the methods which semantically makes sense for a form.
824.
by olavk 12y ago
Yes, because a form is a collection of input fields, and it makes sense to POST input data to a resource. It does not make sense to say attach a collection of input fields to DELETE or OPTIONS request. You can still use other HTTP methods f
825.
by olavk 12y ago
Still, identifiers in the local language makes sense in some contexts. For example when working with terminology which does not have direct equivalent in English. Eg. some very specific tax-related terms with precise meaning in the local co
826.
by olavk 12y ago
Are you suggesting the Soviet Union founded covert propaganda to convince the west that exoplanets couldn't exist? Do you have any more information about this? Because on the face of it it sound like the craziest conspiracy theory I&#x
827.
by olavk 12y ago
"The Pizza Effect is a term used especially in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon of elements of a nation or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to th
828.
by olavk 12y ago
If the language is simple enough to be parsed with only regular expressions, then the language does not have context-free grammar, so bottom-up/top-down distinction does not apply. This also means that the language cannot have recursiv
829.
by olavk 12y ago
Then again, this is just moving the burden from the language implementation to the developer.
830.
by olavk 12y ago
It is less code because it doesn't use encapsulation. So is encapsulation a benefit or just needless overhead? Depends on the size of the program.
831.
by olavk 12y ago
Agree that experience shows that it is possible to build successful projects in OO. But nobody have suggested otherwise. It might still be that some other paradigm might be better, e.g. the successful project might have been done faster and
832.
by olavk 12y ago
Disagree! If a programmer is good or bad is not a quality separate from how they actually develop programs! A good programmer is good because they choose appropriate tools and methodology etc.
833.
by olavk 12y ago
It is really hard to decide on the best way to model, since it doesn't resemble any real-world programming problem. But OO culture has an unfortunate tradition of using bad examples by using physical objects as analogies for objects in
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by olavk 12y ago
In what language?
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by olavk 12y ago
I think it is a cultural mismatch. The Haskell community seem to be very influenced by mathematicians and their way of describing everything as abstractly a possible. You can even see it in code examples where it is pretty common to see arb
836.
by olavk 12y ago
I think it is more confusing than enlightening to claim that jQuery is 'almost' a monad.
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by olavk 12y ago
The IO and State monads is specifically to solve the problem of side effects in a purely functional language, so they are not really relevant in other languages. But other uses of monads, like say monadic parsers could be useful in other la
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by olavk 12y ago
Each monads have its own semantics, so yes, they are multiple concepts. The Maybe-monad is used to solve totally different problems than the IO-monad. Also things like list comprenhensions is implemented as a monad in Haskell.
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by olavk 12y ago
F# also has monads. However both Haskell and F# has syntactic sugar which makes the use of monads convenient. Without some syntactic sugar, using mondas requires chains of nested lambdas which quickly becomes convoluted and unreadable. E.g.
840.
by olavk 12y ago
I guess that makes sense in-story, but if you want to take it seriously as an eye-witness account, it is somewhat problematic that deception-magic is used. They might just as well be under deception magic when they believe they recognize hi

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