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541.
by pekk 11y ago
There are many steps between functional programming in, say, Python, and writing everything in Haskell. Many differences. Not everybody has the same opinion of all those differences.
542.
by pekk 11y ago
"I can't explain it" does not depend on the audience, it depends on your ability to understand and explain it. This is why I didn't say "I can't explain it to two-year-olds".
543.
by pekk 11y ago
Not much. For decades, Apple was holding on to a pretty small share of the market, enough to survive.
544.
by pekk 11y ago
No, that's a dumb joke. Actually I don't really even use Docker personally. HN's standard middlebrow dismissal of Docker is to claim that it's nothing except LXC, which really misses the point entirely. But at least it l
545.
by pekk 11y ago
In an alternate history, what would have been a good way for node.js to reduce the number of stat calls? What would the tradeoff be?
546.
by pekk 11y ago
Wow, Docker in 100 lines! It runs as root? Oh. It is written in bash? Oh. It needs a ton of manual setup? Oh. It doesn't actually implement the package format which is most of the point of Docker? Oh. So is it that easy to reimplement
547.
by pekk 11y ago
If you can't explain it, it's probably not such a great idea as you think it is.
548.
by pekk 11y ago
A minor note on word usage here: usually the word "theory" is reserved for explanations with a good track record rather than wild speculation.
549.
by pekk 11y ago
It really doesn't matter who said it, it's just good to cite the source. But there is nothing which makes Michio Kaku infallible. Arguments can't be reliably evaluated according to who made them.
550.
by pekk 11y ago
That's okay, everyone has things they haven't bothered to read about.
551.
by pekk 11y ago
Fracking is at an all-time high and US oil production is higher than it's been for a while. Whether you are happy with oil prices or not, environmentalists will tell you it's blatantly dishonest to say "He's been again
552.
by pekk 11y ago
Linus was speaking abusively there, but he wasn't just speaking abusively: there was a context. That context wasn't that Linus spends hours every week trolling Reddit by putting people down and making snarky remarks about every
553.
by pekk 11y ago
Honesty is not abuse. But abuse is often misrepresented as honesty, and intolerance of abuse is often misrepresented as an inability to accept useful criticism. Anyone who is actually concerned about honesty should be able to recognize the
554.
by pekk 11y ago
Linus Torvalds has been pretty coarse with his lieutenants in the past, but on the other hand he does not sit around in programming forums telling novice programmers that they should feel bad because they used a language which doesn't
555.
by pekk 11y ago
You think you're cute, but you're missing the point.
556.
by pekk 11y ago
You could have said the same thing about Apple's PC business (with its small, hardcore audience) before it got a new lease on life with phones. Not only does brand matter, but people have reasons to prefer certain design characteristic
557.
by pekk 11y ago
I would take a short commute time over a higher-quality transit system with long commutes every time.
558.
by pekk 11y ago
I love how HN mostly thinks it is a moral imperative to release literally every piece of data in the hands of the government, but when it comes to leaking corporate data it's disrespectful, irresponsible, etc.
559.
by pekk 11y ago
So "no cause" works out to "any cause, as long as you say no cause and didn't leave obvious signs to the contrary"
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by pekk 11y ago
The public isn't nearly so concerned about military actions carried out by a volunteer military. But nobody is proposing that we reinstate the draft, are we? And as a reminder, even the draft did not stop Vietnam - including My Lai, Ag
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by pekk 11y ago
There are plenty of problems that have more elegant solutions in other languages. I don't see that it makes your life unbearable for other solutions to be available.
562.
by pekk 11y ago
If you were happy with 2.5 a few years ago, why is it any more unbearable to use 2.7 today?
563.
by pekk 11y ago
What you need is really much more about the particular workloads you have. It is still often true that code is waiting on network packets or disk I/O. That didn't just change with the decade. This kind of folk wisdom is pretty use
564.
by pekk 11y ago
A major reason to post this is to make get ex-NSA employees fired, make them persona non grata and risky for companies to hire. It's partly political.
565.
by pekk 11y ago
Overuse and broad use have made the term useless anyway. Aside from that, I do have an objection to the term: real advocates for social justice are doing something constructive. Literal warriors make war, which is destructive. That may have
566.
by pekk 11y ago
At this point, the term "SJW" is so overused as a content-free pejorative that I don't think it is even possible to rehabilitate it for any kind of constructive communication. I see people's use of this term as a signal
567.
by pekk 11y ago
People have been trying to automate moderation and make it perfectly fair for a long time now. It's basically impossible. If you do it at all, you have to use people, which makes it suck. If you don't do any moderation, you get a
568.
by pekk 11y ago
I'm seeing a lot of this meme that the internet is gentrifying, and I think it's worth discussing. I'm certain the internet isn't getting more gentrified over time. The internet was extremely gentrified when it was popul
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by pekk 11y ago
As someone with sympathy for many causes that are attacked as "SJW," I agree. I never thought the term was reasonable. It's as embarrassingly hokey and strident as Christian evangelists self-describing as "spiritual warr
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by pekk 11y ago
Does it follow that if an organization discloses a security issue, it wasn't serious about security?

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