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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"all its incantations" - did you mean 'incarnations'? (though I like 'incantations'! )
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Iirc (it's been a while since I read the article) I thought 'dead' was used to mean "they are not the dominant power in the world of software (in terms of tools, languages, leadership, driving change) etc, like they used
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"Implementing a language that resembles Scheme is quite easy. Implementing call-with-current-continuation and hygienic macros AND getting the tricky little details correct is not." (tangential) and this is where most "build y
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"For good or for bad, Javascript is the lingua-franca of computing today " a very strong claim. There is a lot of 'computing' outside the browser. lingua franca of front end web dev, I grant you, (almost by definition
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"I wouldn't be surprised if India became the dominant power in the second half of the 21st century" I would (Fwiw, I am in Indian, lived for years in the USA, now live in India). Aside from climate change, India has tremendou
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"you didn't mention Scala" my hypothesis (and it is only that) is that trying to unite FP and OO, as Scala tries to do, leads to unnecessary complexity in learning and usage. Also see 'tooling'. That said, many
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"The killer app for OCaml is front-end webdev with Reason." I'll make a 1000$, 10 year bet with you that in 2028, if browsers still exist, ReasonML (or its successors) will be nowhere near mainstream status (which is the poin
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"I for one can't wait for Typed FP to become mainstream as soon as possible." This will never happen till there is a typed FP language that has solid tooling, documentation, solid libraries for most common programmer tasks, a
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Slow Learning(medium.com)
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
which implementaions of SML are the production ready ones?
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
great reply, thanks for taking the effort. I hope to never work for other people again, but if I did, Stripe would be on top of the list of companies I'd apply to (despite their use of Ruby ;-) ). The CEO seems to have his head screwed
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
agreed. First , tell a good story. If the story can additionally be interpreted metaphorically to support specific viewpoints, so be it. There are exceptions, but most of the time, when I reach for a novel, I am not looking for political
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
that's great to hear! so it seems you just had the bad luck to stumble across an exception to the 'rule'.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
a more interesting question might be "Do you regret staying a programmer (after the first n years)?"
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"The YC partner I met had the feedback that an online REPL is not really a startup -- it's just a fun toy -- and that instead, I should join another company building a superficially similar technology." Interesting, especiall
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
>if the startup is successful you_might_ make $10m if the startup is the next facebook, sure. But usually an employee doesn't make 10 million, even for 100 million dollar(+) acquisitions. Founders do, but that is a different game.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
> I just checked other news sources in India, and no one has any news about any recent Aadhaar breach. here you go NDTV https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/aadhaar-software-patc... It is on the front page.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
yeah highlighting "Uncle" Bob as a "10" with respect to programmer cred was a weak point of the essay. He is basically a one trick (TDD) evangelist pony and I doubt he has any serious developer cred outside the agile m
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Peter Thiel seems to be persona non grata in HN circles because he supported candidate Trump (in 2016) and later joined some sort of inner circle when Trump became president (is what I can make out from half a world away). This kind of flag
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
I really like the fact that this book is explicitly addressed to (CXOs of / senior managers of) companies that have already found a product / market fit, and is now transitioning into a 'BigCo', which means that startup
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
from the article (medium, not BBC) "The pair worked tirelessly for three months in a cramped office in Cambridge, waking up everyday at noon and working till dawn the next day. “I think we started like most of these tech companies begi
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
I actively avoid anything to do with geopolitics/US politics/social justice wars/fads (cryptocurrency), and as a result, I find HN (still) useful and informative.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
(have an upvote) IF I were that interested in a book,(THEN) I'd just learn the language of the original (Sanskrit for the BG) and read the original. Most translations miss many nuances.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"At this point, I believe technical co-founders have a binary choice: Stay on the technical track and hire a professional manager (usually given the VP of Engineering title), or give up coding and focus on the management aspects yourse
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Great article. Much better than the New York Times article. From TFA "Is this really all about Amazon? No, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. Council member Kshama Sawant, who exhorted her supporters to “Pack City Hall!” in a m
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
having a test suite is different from being test driven .
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
I am not 'defending India'. I could care less about what people think of India. I am not a nationalist or 'patriot'/desh bhakt and have no problems with criticisms of any country or institution. FSM knows India
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"I really hope that you guys learn a less bureaucratic and hierarical way of working" These generalizations make as much sense as me telling a random American HN user "I really hope that you guys stop indulging your blood lus
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
At least Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft seem to be hiring experts in all areas of Computer Science (compilers, machine learning, operating systems, networking ...), though the interesting jobs seem to be need a PhD or at le

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