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by rev_null 10y ago
Yeah, Church-encoding is a lot nicer to use when you can wrap the function in a new type.
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by rev_null 10y ago
My guess is that Monsanto is trying to weed out the current generation of farmers and replace them with roundup ready™ farmers.
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I think that argument worked well for the original web. But the HTML spec has accumulated a lot of things to make design easier, but they also make it easier to represent a page without useful semantic structure. You mentioned tables, but t
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by rev_null 10y ago
Yes. There are things that developers could do to make most web sites better for the visually impaired. But that doesn't mean that most web developers use, or even recognize, these best practices. Gopher, on the other hand, simply only
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by rev_null 10y ago
Gopher is way more friendly for the visually impaired than the modern web.
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by rev_null 10y ago
I could never get past Joss Whedon's inability to write dialog.
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by rev_null 10y ago
What's with the cheap shot at haskell at the end? I've shipped a couple of side projects in haskell.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Unless you are police or a prosecutor handling evidence. Then you can look at all the child porn you want.
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by rev_null 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Islam came about after civilization had been established.
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If 30 helens agreed, it would be a different case.
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by rev_null 10y ago
You are assuming that the people prescribed oxycontin are following the label. If they go through a months supply in a week, then suddenly heroin is the next best option.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Didn't the majority of voters _not_ vote for Trump? The massive voter base is still the minority and it's easier to blame meme magic than to re-evaluate a dysfunctional system of democracy.
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Yes, but most programming languages are around for a few years before someone tries to use them to implement another language.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Except, his apology wasn't for the dysfunctional culture and harassment. He was apologizing for his treatment of a driver.
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by rev_null 10y ago
I'm more interested in knowing how google plans to insure both Larry and Sergey while they're engaging on such a dangerous mission.
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by rev_null 10y ago
He'll make sure they get due process, not judicial process.
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by rev_null 10y ago
What if the lesson is not that Nadella is a great CEO, but that Ballmer was actually terrible?
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by rev_null 10y ago
To be fair, this was written by ESR. His code to self-congratulatory ratio was pretty high to begin with.
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by rev_null 10y ago
For my curiosity, what do you find in Java that you think is more elegant than rust?
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by rev_null 10y ago
Doesn't packaging each piece of software as a single file lead to a security disaster? When openssl has a vulnerability, suddenly the end user needs to upgrade multiple applications, and that is assuming that all of the developers have
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by rev_null 10y ago
I meant it as a half-joking inverse of Thiel's claim pre-election that the media takes Trump literally but not seriously [1]. It's very clear now that much of what Trump said was literal. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Thiel made the mistake of taking Trump seriously when he should have been taking him literally.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Rather than ban these things, we should just tax them to pay for social services to offset the harm that they do.
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by rev_null 10y ago
When the blub programmers look up the ladder, they see a bunch of type theory, monads, and laziness. They don't see the use for these features as they think in blub.
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by rev_null 10y ago
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? Because he is in love.
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by rev_null 10y ago
It is still almost twice the price of a 2009 epipen.
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by rev_null 10y ago
I admire OP's decision to resign. But, to be fair, cataloguing citizens to facilitate genocide is one of IBM's core competencies[1]. [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by rev_null 10y ago
Sunday is the most widely read and profitable day for newspapers. It also helps to remember that newspaper readers are not the source of revenue for newspapers. Advertisers are the actual customers. With that in mind, a campaign promoting t
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by rev_null 10y ago
Having worked for a newspaper and, later, it's larger media conglomerate (late aughts), I can say that newspapers have intentionally created a terrible web presence. It's tough to tell whether the company thought it was a fad that
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by rev_null 10y ago
Because the article wasn't comparing F# to imperative languages. It was comparing it to other functional languages and asking why F# is unpopular among functional programmers.

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