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811.
by pekk 12y ago
If you are hired to write code, that's the contract; your job IS to write code. Just like a plumber's job isn't to solve problems in general, just the problems involving plumbing, and that's what makes him a plumber inst
812.
by pekk 12y ago
Multiple languages coexist. Within Javascript, there are multiple module systems, general utility/polyfill libraries, test runners... for better or worse, we continue to have many alternatives for almost anything. So why not also diffe
813.
by pekk 12y ago
That doesn't make any sense to me. If Node is good enough, or io.js is good enough, then they are no better if the other stops existing, and no worse if the other continues existing.
814.
by pekk 12y ago
This kind of policy has to be set up front (or at least on a going-forward basis) or it'll never happen. You obviously can't fix this, all you can do is look out for yourself. Circles of people who all agree to do something wrong
815.
by pekk 12y ago
Code review is really useful. People should listen to reviews of their code, even if they're arguable, for the sake of team harmony and having a system of checks and balances. But a "code snob" is not necessarily correct just
816.
by pekk 12y ago
Sometimes something is laughed at not because it is out-of-the-box genius which will do well defying all expectations, but because it is actually ridiculous and will fail.
817.
by pekk 12y ago
As long as that realization is tempered with this one: "The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright b
818.
by pekk 12y ago
The US Army kills people. What does the US Army have to do to get shut down completely? Do we wait until genocide?
819.
by pekk 12y ago
"Thin" implies little work is being done over the work that C would do. I can't see how the size of the source repositories would matter here. Memory management is worth mentioning because actually it's a lot of work don
820.
by pekk 12y ago
What are the rules for a policy audit? Are there universal guidelines we can use to policy audit the decisions made by individual politicians?
821.
by pekk 12y ago
It's not that it is a panacea, just that it is comparatively nice and safe.
822.
by pekk 12y ago
What's wrong with ML as the language for this?
823.
by pekk 12y ago
There are other users you probably don't represent.
824.
by pekk 12y ago
I was asking about the exact uses murbard2 detailed, for which murbard2 thought OCaml was not ideal... not asking which language I should learn to understand functional programming
825.
by pekk 12y ago
Maybe this is too idealistic, but I would hope that conference attendees could relate because they are interested in the subject of the conference. It's disturbing that in practice, being a bird of a feather is exclusively defined in d
826.
by pekk 12y ago
It turns out not to be all that much different, the ratio is about the same http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%20tutorial%2C%20...
827.
by pekk 12y ago
Would OCaml be a better choice than Haskell for the same purpose?
828.
by pekk 12y ago
The question assumes that the relevant forces weren't in motion much earlier (they were, it just takes time for the basic changes to show up clearly in things like this search)
829.
by pekk 12y ago
I always find it puzzling that people throw away dynamic typing entirely. You can't make decisions about what's best for me based on rules of thumb like "as much static typing as possible," your use cases probably don&#x
830.
by pekk 12y ago
Honestly it isn't my fault at all that you signed up, and I didn't agree with the policies that sent you there anyway, and nothing makes us even because we've had no transactions, but if I said this it is out of respect to wh
831.
by pekk 12y ago
It's a pretty rich comparison which doesn't have to be interpreted negatively (that is dependent on the observer). For example, the Sandinistas would likely see themselves as fighting Yankee imperialism and domestic supporters of
832.
by pekk 12y ago
For some reason it connotes comparison to a militant leftist activist, like a Sandinista. That doesn't seem like such an inaccurate connotation with respect to Snowden's supporters.
833.
by pekk 12y ago
Not being the government doesn't give anyone a strong right to build mass surveillance databases to target individuals.
834.
by pekk 12y ago
This is completely irrelevant for almost any content I watch. Live events like the Super Bowl are a very special category.
835.
by pekk 12y ago
When old software has bugs that don't get fixed, that also poses risk (see many recent high-profile security flaws). People just tend to overlook these problems more. Simply waiting between commits reduces the rate of change, but does
836.
by pekk 12y ago
You seem to be assuming that everyone writing code should be writing code for either the JVM or CLR, which is a really weird assumption.
837.
by pekk 12y ago
This can be overdone too. It depends on whether the junior developer has even tried or thought about it before asking for help. If the rule is to ask first and always, the junior developer might as well not be there because the senior devel
838.
by pekk 12y ago
However, it's good advice if we think about just being competent instead of being a smart deified rockstar. If you are handed a spec and documentation for all the APIs you will need to use, and instead of reading or thinking about anyt
839.
by pekk 12y ago
Can we please drop the "rockstar" crap? You are writing code, not performing live in makeup and snorting lines off of adoring groupies. I don't care how great you think your Node module is, you are not the Jimi Hendrix of 205
840.
by pekk 12y ago
What if you aren't interested in targeting the JVM?

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