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by pekk 11y ago
On the other hand (without commenting on specifics of Haskell) the parts do represent the whole. People in a community learn tropes from each other. If many of the community's tropes are toxic, the community is toxic in a way that surv
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by pekk 11y ago
The gain from maths is that you can tell everyone what an exalted, rarefied experience you are having writing the same programs people write in blub, except more slowly, somehow using elite stuff you know from maths. edit: I have no critici
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by pekk 11y ago
Go is frequently presented as a replacement of Python. When people hear that, it sets up an expectation that Go will have the same pleasant qualities of Python, when it doesn't, any more than Python has goroutines.
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by pekk 11y ago
You're being disingenuous. Every platform requires support, which takes time. It's unreasonable to expect Linux to be an exception to this and not take any time. If you planned on Linux being the special platform which doesn'
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by pekk 11y ago
Can you provide a breakdown of where the money is coming from? I haven't seen that kind of data which would actually show that Google isn't funding Mozilla at all any more.
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by pekk 11y ago
Offering support for a game is a never ending support task. If you aren't willing to support your users, you aren't ready to publish games. Don't blame Linux users.
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by pekk 11y ago
Could you name some of the packages you think are better than any of their equivalents?
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by pekk 11y ago
There is nothing harder to understand about indentation levels than curly braces, if you haven't already developed a preference for curly braces. Go is really not designed as a tool for new programmers, you are just projecting your pre
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by pekk 11y ago
The first law of thermodynamics does not imply that every metabolism is the same. The human body and digestive system is not a physically simple system. There are many biological variables which change how food is processed. People like you
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by pekk 11y ago
The only reason this isn't possible for most people is because the people who sell that hardware have made it difficult, on purpose.
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by pekk 11y ago
"Hackers" aren't cool, they are equated with "neckbeards." Today people prefer being called "software engineers," regardless of whether anything they do resembles engineering.
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by pekk 11y ago
What's wrong with MicroPython?
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by pekk 11y ago
So the future is Prolog?
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by pekk 11y ago
But there is no better alternative. If there were, maybe we wouldn't use language to talk and give instructions to each other either.
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by pekk 11y ago
The passage is just clarifying the concept of goal-directed execution by comparison with the mainstream approach represented by Java, using a very standard example. There's nothing curious here, and there's no expository reason to
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by pekk 11y ago
The fact that you can't legally say anything any time you want does not imply that there is no legally protected right to free expression. It isn't a slippery slope to a dictatorship. "We should gas all the Jews, rise up with
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by pekk 11y ago
Are you saying that Blue Coat (based in Sunnyvale, California) develops censorship tools in order to keep their family alive? Who is threatening them?
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by pekk 11y ago
It's not just mental health. Working 55-hour weeks (a number many HN users would laugh at) poses a 33% increase in stroke risk and 13% increase of coronary heart disease over "standard" hours: http://well.blogs.nyt
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by pekk 11y ago
That type declaration is easily as unreadable as any "pointer to function returning pointer" declaration in C.
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by pekk 11y ago
They have the same basic semantics as JavaScript. It's not about that. Even if I liked COBOL, I wouldn't want a world where only COBOL can be used. And it doesn't make sense that this world has to be artificially enforced whe
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by pekk 11y ago
The vast majority of Mozilla's funding comes from Google.
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by pekk 11y ago
It's only surprising if you don't understand that Mozilla's core mission now is to promote a permanent JavaScript monopoly. Mozilla has committed to blocking any technology which could ever offer equal support to any other la
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by pekk 11y ago
I see that you aren't finding this productive to continue. That's okay. Thanks for your responses anyway.
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by pekk 11y ago
Clients would be irrational to pay for a recruiting service which removed 0 bits of uncertainty as to the quality of presented candidates (by the client's definition of quality). It's safe to generalize that recruiting services wh
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by pekk 11y ago
Pardon me. You're selling recruitment services, which happen to involve preliminary screening through Stockfighter. I am venturing the very risky speculation that these recruitment services would have no value to your clients if they w
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by pekk 11y ago
I understand that, but if you want to sell any kind of screen you have to represent that the screen discriminates "better" candidates from "worse" ones. The people who are willing to pay for this screening want the top 1
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by pekk 11y ago
What is a better way to sell a candidate to clients than to say she is in the top 1%? They have every reason to count out as many people out as possible. Nobody looking at this kind of service wants to hire candidates who are not the best.
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by pekk 11y ago
So is a hot dog cart. Hot dog carts attached to bicycles have existed forever. Job on wheels, maybe even better than driving for Uber. I guess.
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by pekk 11y ago
Is Visual Studio going to be in use 500 years from now? Light Table? No. The people who made Visual Studio have not made something that is smarter for everyone's work. Maybe your work just doesn't require any customization. That d
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by pekk 11y ago
The steering wheel could be improved upon in some theoretical sense, but the chances are that any new car steered by, say, an iPad is much worse and definitely isn't going to be used in races any time soon.

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