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by pekk 11y ago
For Chaos fans in this thread, note that there is just recently a nice remake of Chaos by the original creator called "Chaos Reborn."
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by pekk 11y ago
Granted, shell is useful for concise interactive one-liners. Granted, Java is a terrible replacement for shell. But there's no kind of programming where shell is better than Perl, Python or Ruby - "big languages" which, unli
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by pekk 11y ago
Using languages other than shell already brings lots of benefits to the user. That just doesn't matter to the people who are writing large programs in shell. It isn't like those people are basing their decision on rigorous user st
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by pekk 11y ago
What is the real reason to make this tool platform-specific?
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by pekk 11y ago
Thread-based concurrency based on shared mutable state doesn't reduce complexity.
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by pekk 11y ago
What would really be useful would be a genuinely critical study that allows a "post mortem" of what Go could have done better to support new programmers. If all we ever do is toot our own horns, nothing really gets better.
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by pekk 11y ago
The root cause of long commutes isn't a lack of biking, it is a lack of proximity. Riding a bike for two hours each way isn't an option for many people.
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by pekk 11y ago
Multiplying minutes by millions of people does give a first approximation to how much energy use, pollution, and congestion you are causing. Commute times matter even if you don't care that people are sitting for 15 minutes (or 45, or
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by pekk 11y ago
If the incumbent editors watching the page are the source of POV, then the mechanism is to prevent the correction of POV rather than to correct POV. There is no mechanism to prevent this.
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by pekk 11y ago
"Can be disputed" doesn't mean there isn't a specific interest group jealously guarding that article to protect a specific POV.
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by pekk 11y ago
Can you explain why this is a smarter way to build software?
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by pekk 11y ago
The bombing of Cambodia cannot possibly justify anything Pol Pot did to his own population.
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by pekk 11y ago
On the other hand, if what other people believe is outlined in Mein Kampf, the attitude that you should work together with those people in spite of your differing ideals is quite wrong. We know this because of what happened in the Holocaust
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by pekk 11y ago
Well, Saddam's was one of the worst regimes since the Nazis. We really can't do anything right as far as intervention, at some point we have to accept we can't make things work out in other people's countries and there w
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by pekk 11y ago
I would much rather be subjected to economic sanctions than bombed, but I guess I don't speak for everyone. Maybe some people prefer to be bombed.
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by pekk 11y ago
Please show evidence that replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar syrup calorie-for-calorie leads to any good health outcome.
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by pekk 11y ago
Not at all, when the talk starts out quibbling about the 80-column standard.
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by pekk 11y ago
As a black man, <insert negative remark about black people>.
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by pekk 11y ago
Go isn't designed for the same purposes as Python or Ruby, either. It's statically typed and far less expressive.
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by pekk 11y ago
Because old people are bad and lame, right? How is this kind of remark allowed on HN?
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by pekk 11y ago
"Beyond the prevailing code standards, yet another proposal for doing things my way instead of the standard way"
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by pekk 11y ago
It has an interesting relationship to the moral panic regarding "ritual satanic abuse" and certain trials purporting to discover crimes in repressed memories. Those issues, which had a certain cultural currency at certain times, a
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by pekk 11y ago
A minor clarification for those who might be learning from HN: regular expressions aren't equivalent to context-free grammars, they are even more limited than context-free grammars. Things which involve arbitrary-depth nesting or recur
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by pekk 11y ago
Speaking as a happily ugly old person who has never used Tinder: whether you are a man or a woman, it is your decision to date someone or not. Nobody is putting a gun to your head. When both sides get to say yea or nay without coercion, thi
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by pekk 11y ago
We demand actual proofs of program correctness, but for some reason we don't even ask for proofs that practices actually work or even that they don't do any harm. We just take it on intuition and faith, and propagate practices by
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by pekk 11y ago
What classes of bugs do you have in mind that testing cannot work for?
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by pekk 11y ago
Most people who apply to jobs are not seen as "good engineers," they are hazed in the interview process. Meanwhile, the bank account is draining.
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by pekk 11y ago
It's not all that easy or cheap to decentralize the last mile. Things were not any more decentralized when most people used dialup, and they were definitely more centralized when the main users of the internet were on a few campuses.
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by pekk 11y ago
I have often seen it touted that OS X is "real Unix." To me, that would imply the easy availability of working compilers and compile environments. Is that not true?
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by pekk 11y ago
I'm sorry if things aren't working well for you. The Python community already did pick a standard, which is PyPI, pip and wheels. All this is covered in PEPs. Unfortunately, the creators of Conda present their own tool to compete

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