rkido

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by rkido 8y ago
I believe this class-oriented workaround is a side-effect of Don Syme's decision to strip out the OCaml module system from F#.
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by rkido 8y ago
Every single binary that works on Ubuntu will work without modification on Pop!_OS. That is not true for Debian. Some packages (like the .deb file for Chrome or VSCode) should work on any distribution that supports dpkg, but there are many
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by rkido 8y ago
This looks cool. But why do they keep marketing Pop!_OS as a different operating system? This is confusing to people who don't realize that it's literally just a customized Ubuntu.
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by rkido 8y ago
Not all function-oriented languages use static binding. Due to how the BEAM VM works, Elixir/Erlang is very, very function-oriented but also late-bound. Nevertheless, its type system is relatively rich compared to most other late-bound
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by rkido 9y ago
I'm no expert on type systems so my definitions are not meant to be theoretically correct, just to describe the practical implications of static and dynamic typing. What you're talking about seems to be more related to how type sy
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by rkido 9y ago
The purpose of higher education isn't to educate the mob. It's to protect education -- the very notion of being educated -- from the mob. That so few schools recognize this doesn't mean "higher education is eroding&quo
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by rkido 9y ago
Geniuses are made, not born. It is entirely within the realm to achieve something like this with the proper training. See "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise".
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by rkido 9y ago
> Static typing requests you to explicitly declare types. You are confusing explicit typing with static typing . "Static" means "compile-time checking". "Dynamic" means "defer checks to run-time&quot
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by rkido 9y ago
Try using WeChat every day for a few months and then tell me again they're not leading the pack. I don't even use it in China (where it's power is significantly higher than everywhere else), yet even ignoring features that on
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by rkido 9y ago
Um, you seem to be unaware of Tencent and Alibaba, both vast enterprises. Tencent owns League of Legends, the biggest multiplayer game in the world, as well as WeChat, which is comparable to WhatsApp in number of users. WeChat is revered by
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by rkido 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Faster Dash - DESCRIPTION: I still use Ubuntu Unity because of the superior UX of app indicators, which GNOME refused to merge many years ago and still sucks to this day for it. However, one thing I miss