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by pekk 10y ago
That's fine, and I don't use Rails either - but this post was about Rails. People who use or want to use Rails are likely to benefit from the new features. Even if that number has declined somewhat, it's still a lot of people
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by pekk 10y ago
> expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. I really don't mean this in a snarky way: wasn't this kind of thing supposed to be obviated by the switch to Rust? It often seems that every other post about Rust on HN
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by pekk 10y ago
softwareheritage is a good idea, and I'm heartened to see that they are collecting provenance information and restricting their collection to open source. My enthusiasm for code search outside an environment like Google's internal
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by pekk 10y ago
Is it helpful or noteworthy to write for the thousandth time that PHP "works"?
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by pekk 10y ago
What doesn't "just work" to the same standard? What, among the things anyone uses, are you saying that PHP works better than?
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by pekk 10y ago
You are being rhetorical, but over its long history dialects of BASIC have been used to write a huge amount of software. It was the first generally accessible interpreted language, and its influence on programming today is no less than Lisp
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by pekk 10y ago
There's no reason you can't write high-performance apps in Python, unless you have decided to tie your hand behind your back and not use any of the optimization strategies which have been developed in the decades that Python has e
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by pekk 10y ago
This is the attitude which caught the remain campaign flat-footed - the sense that what we traditionally believed about the UK can't change. We want to snuggle up in our blankets and think nothing can go wrong. But this referendum had
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by pekk 10y ago
Committing to an existing project doesn't give you exclusive license rights over the project.
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by pekk 10y ago
There are plenty of people who just can't play first-person 3d games without puking. They didn't get used to it, they just avoid those games and the market doesn't care. Even games which could be modified to prevent motion si
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by pekk 10y ago
Many people get sick with conventional 3d games, but it hasn't done much to the market's enthusiasm. Your post convinced me that VR is getting big in the near future. Why? Because your complaints are so closely similar to the comp
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by pekk 10y ago
Distros have different packaging systems and tend to vary in things like where files are located. The interesting differences are about the process used to allow in a new version of a package.
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Except that the default, basic, recommended style for writing in C and writing in some other language X often produces very reasonably fast code in C, and horribly slow code in X. Which was the whole reason people advanced the argument that
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by pekk 10y ago
In terms of public health, "CYA" is better described as "epidemic prevention"
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Hiring/firing practices are a perennial subject on HN.
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by pekk 10y ago
Either it's your code, in which case why don't you know what type of object you are passing, or it's a documented part of a framework or something. With polymorphism and inheritance in the mainstream languages, the method sig
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by pekk 10y ago
Python is apparently the first language you used in anger and now you want to use other things, but that simply doesn't mean that it is unsuitable for experienced people or complex projects.
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Just like institutionalized discrimination, prohibiting this has no teeth when nobody can prove it's happening.
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by pekk 10y ago
I won't name names, but one thing I've personally seen is HR initiatives encouraging employees to write reviews, not necessarily coercively. If well-known companies are doing that, it's not unlikely that some companies are d
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by pekk 10y ago
virtualenvwrapper isn't part of virtualenv or python. Are you saying that the existence of virtualenv tells you there's something wrong?
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by pekk 10y ago
Even if you were ever so slightly indirect, you just literally described Blackberry as equivalent to assisting the Nazis. The apparently intended parallel is that the US government or Canadian government is the same as the Nazis.
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The practice isn't designed to make things clearer for the user, it's a dark pattern. It's designed so that the user either doesn't notice or feels guilty about choosing to opt out. If you wanted to design a clearer inte
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by pekk 10y ago
Maybe you object to the tone? There is a real community problem with sense of entitlement - just because a project is open source doesn't mean that you are entitled to have every PR accepted to that project. I'm getting tired of t
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by pekk 10y ago
Sounds like someone is upset their PR wasn't accepted. Poor baby.
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People are in those cars, just because you use a car doesn't mean you are not a person.
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That assumption is unnecessary. The only assumption needed is that taxes belong to the state. Property is defined by law.
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The complaint is that it adds a lot of noise as people are forced to write handlers for exceptions they're not interested in, and these handlers are typically empty.
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Do we really need yet another special ad hoc scripting language?
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If you are not trying to use Haskell (which has monads as a workaround for certain problems) then what is the point having monads? The average developer doesn't care because they are working in an environment where monads aren't n
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by pekk 10y ago
> There isnt something [edit: a function] they can't learn. This is way too sloppy. There isn't something neural nets can't be made to represent - but possibility of representation isn't the same as learning. Learning

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