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by professor_plum 8y ago
penis
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by professor_plum 8y ago
Yeah, expected return only makes sense in e.g. a diversified portfolio. edit: You can downvote all you want, but it still doesn't make sense to consider the expected return on one item in isolation. If you disagree, provide a reason.
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by professor_plum 8y ago
They also let you compose SQL fragments in ways that would be a lot more difficult or less clear otherwise. In the case of Diesel, they let you typecheck the composition of those fragments. ORM hate is based on misunderstanding of the ben
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by professor_plum 8y ago
Disagree. There are too many STEM students already. It's just that plenty of web development shops are okay with hiring a physicist. It's a waste of money and time to encourage more STEM education unless the student is actually
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by professor_plum 8y ago
Yeah, I'll never tell someone not to learn something for the sheer enjoyment. But this article is downright pretentious. It gussies up a lot of simple day-to-day tasks with off-putting terms and would not be helpful to a beginner.
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by professor_plum 8y ago
I'm always curious what people are using the more exotic type system functionality of e.g. Haskell or Idris for in practice. It was interesting to hear that even Simon didn't expect such things to be used in industry quite yet. S
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by professor_plum 8y ago
So using CSS, one can fingerprint a browser and communicate that information back to home base by programmatic inclusion of font A or font B. This inclusion triggers the download from the respective URL, thus giving that URL information ab
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by professor_plum 9y ago
Unfortunately this begs the question a bit. How does one hire good managers? I mean good as in both competent and not jerks.
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by professor_plum 9y ago
Not what I meant, no. In oversimplified terms, Rust has objects but not classes. It skews more toward: - from a C dev's perspective: data-driven design - from a Haskell dev's perspective: typeclasses and ADTs
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by professor_plum 9y ago
I'm going to be That Guy and suggest you give Rust a try. It's got the best of imperative and functional mixed in.
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by professor_plum 9y ago
Thanks for helping to qualify when the proposed solution starts to become appropriate. I'd still really need a solid example of when this starts to be beneficial. Could anyone oblige?
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by professor_plum 9y ago
F# also handles physical units in a really nice way.
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by professor_plum 9y ago
You might in fact love it. You'll get a nice overview of how interpreters actually work, for one thing.
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by professor_plum 9y ago
The time and memory complexity are pretty severe with this method.