quadrupleslap

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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Yep, right at the start of the kernel style guide: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-styl...
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Can you explain how you want science to be influenced by "social or political ideology"? Do you just mean developing weapons during wartime and medicine during epidemics, or something beyond that?
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
To put it nicely, it's easy to see that the social sciences are a lot harder to get right and verify than the natural sciences. Oh, and it doesn't help that it's much easier to be biased about topics in social science.
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
React can certainly be fast enough but isn't it completely unnecessary for a mostly-static site like Reddit?
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Regarding the third point, although it might be fundamentally misaligned with what you want to read, the Reddit system does do a very good job at highlighting what most people want to read (for better or worse.)
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
I 100% agree that purity is still incredibly useful for reasoning about and maintaining code in any language, but I think you're underselling the benefits of statically verifying that you haven't unintentionally introduced impurit
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
I think the idea is that with perfect knowledge of the current state of the universe, you could deduce that yes, that water was once a snowflake of some known configuration.
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
That's actually pretty clever, but wouldn't the resource usage be insane?
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Obviously the point of the analogy was that Facebook's effects are harmful, too, just like those of smoking.
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
But by favoring websites that support AMP, isn't Google already "penalizing a much larger base of content creators who don't have the means and infrastructure to handle this"?
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
If you don't mind something online, I hear repl.it is pretty good.
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Do you really hate them both that much or did you mean "under the sun"? ;)
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
That's silly - if anything it's the other way around. Web tools have a ridiculous degree of corporate backing, especially with the countless libraries from Facebook and Google (React, Angular, Go, Dart, Flow, IMMUTABLE, etc.), and
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
Yes, it's simple, but it's on almost every installation of Sublime Text, and moreover, package management is a baseline expectation in modern editors, so having it built-in makes a lot of sense.
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
How does the Sistine Chapel matter any more than a work that will be experienced simultaneously by thousands, if not millions of people across the world, and will be immeasurably more immersive and entertaining?
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by quadrupleslap 9y ago
To change it, I'll have to go spelunking through either the HTML or the CSS, and if I was a designer, I'd probably pick the CSS. Looking for the 'product' class and tweaking a few properties sounds much nicer than figuri