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by pekk 11y ago
What do you mean by corporatism? Do you mean it in Mussolini's sense?
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by pekk 11y ago
> There is really very little difference between the mafia and legitimate governance. The name of that little difference is legitimacy.
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by pekk 11y ago
It isn't a foregone conclusion that if you have good skills, you will be permanently hired out of a contract position. If it were a foregone conclusion, they would just hire perm.
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by pekk 11y ago
That looks different if Asians are greatly over-represented in their applications.
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't block your same-domain ads because my concern about ads is mostly controlling what I am connecting to, and avoiding severe nuisances like sudden popups and stupid flash movies playing loudly out of nowhere.
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by pekk 11y ago
Prefixing "main=" to a subroutine definition is no different from any language's syntax for declaring subroutines. If that means every programming language is declarative, then declarative doesn't even mean anything.
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by pekk 11y ago
The problem isn't the argument, the problem is systems that aren't really wanted being rammed through by political means.
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by pekk 11y ago
Just for the sake of discussion, what is actually wrong with the syntax you just invented?
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by pekk 11y ago
Once you're dead you'll miss out on all the cool stuff that's happening. It's bad enough we missed out on all the stuff that happened before we died.
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by pekk 11y ago
I follow your point about personal mourning, it doesn't have to be earned. But this is tangled up with public recognition of the man's achievements on the level of Einstein, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. So maybe the filmmaker mi
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by pekk 11y ago
Your perspective on this seems skewed. We have never stopped hearing about how "evil" Microsoft was. Microsoft is a company most people love to hate. There are not any movies painting Bill Gates as an inspired, messianic product v
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by pekk 11y ago
More people have a stronger emotional response to iPhones, which Steve Jobs is identified as being responsible for.
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by pekk 11y ago
Not quite as naive as believing that every problem works itself out as long as the government goes away.
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by pekk 11y ago
The complexity of a language is not proportional to the number of builtin types it has. If there is a builtin to do one particular thing, and you just use it for that, that's simple. You don't have to build it up yourself by trick
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by pekk 11y ago
We have the words "inefficient, regressive, and exploitative" but the missing word is "voluntary." If we are going to treat the lottery as a tax, what products and services should also be treated as taxes levied by comp
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by pekk 11y ago
By the time you are reaching for recursive make, if you can't just get rid of the complexity with a rethink, it's probably better to use something different.
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by pekk 11y ago
Do you have more to say here than that you hate Python and its syntax, and you think that C people will never use anything which involves Python? Python was written in C, by C people.
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by pekk 11y ago
They don't have to ask the coin. They can just assign different meanings to heads and tails, flip the coin, and record the result as a prediction. If you have 1000 people do this, some of them will appear to be miraculous predictors ju
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by pekk 11y ago
This comment shouldn't have been hit so hard. It's a valid response to people complaining about the throughput/latency tradeoff, especially in special areas like small embedded devices. Go's GC can't just remove all
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by pekk 11y ago
Python uses try/except, not try/catch. The only reason to catch KeyError is to detect missing keys, so if you are trying to do that, only wrap your dict access rather than wrapping large blocks of code where anything could happen.
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by pekk 11y ago
That came from Smalltalk, where it was named doesNotUnderstand. It's always difficult to choose between crippling the language and encouraging stupidity.
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by pekk 11y ago
There is no way to know how many people tried to build a follow-up experiment which failed and was not published because the failure to replicate will usually be assumed to be due to some mistake, and even carefully finding p > threshold
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by pekk 11y ago
Maybe a template for sending a CV through email?
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by pekk 11y ago
People aren't allowed to hold events at bars? Do you think it is nice to make that demand?
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by pekk 11y ago
Clojure isn't really a fair comparison. Clojure hasn't got low-level interop with all those things, just JVM, and that interop is bought at the cost of closely tying Clojure to JVM. I don't think D can be changed in all the b
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by pekk 11y ago
I went through everything before I reached Ubuntu. I've been a Linux user since the early-mid 90s. This kind of stereotyping is inaccurate and harmful.
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by pekk 11y ago
Whose problem is this? If I am in a self-driving car, I don't expect it to use "aggression" to try to compete with other drivers. I just want it to get there safely.
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by pekk 11y ago
Lots of things from Lisp never made it into mainstream programming (meaning things like Fortran, C, Java).
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by pekk 11y ago
We'll always have PHP like we still have MUMPS.
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by pekk 11y ago
Interviews with Pike et al. have always made clear that Go actually was made to compete with Java and C++. I wouldn't argue with that. But the rank and file as represented on HN among other places presents Go as a replacement for Pytho

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