rdevilla

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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   That's a baby in HN years.
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   I'm wary about new accounts such as yours wanting to censor and shape discourse by antagonizing people who hold diverse views that differ from your own here. The HN culture has shifted drastically over the past 5 years.
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   It's not going to work.
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   > People were compensated for being in the Stasi, and they're compensated for participating on Facebook. It's just in Facebook, they're compensated by social credits - they get laid by their neighbour, instead of being pai
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   I agree. Mostly they are copes for lack of first-class functions and multiple dispatch. Go through GoF and you will see this is the case for 80% of the patterns. OOP has no firm theoretical foundation, unlike FP which is rooted in the forma
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   I suspect this is why formal languages exist; as a sieve to keep the hordes of fools at bay, and a system for turning bullshit into parse errors. We are undoing much of this progress by now insisting everything be expressed in natural langu
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   by rdevilla 7mo ago

   > To start with, you need to remember that functions don’t exist. They’re made up. They’re a social construct. https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/call Sufficiently large distances of abstraction from the concrete, un