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by sdht0 6y ago
> For movies or music for instance, something like 3 year period of copyright ownership would be fine. Great line of thinking. But I think the idea of earning income from a creative work throughout one's life also has value. A compr
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by sdht0 6y ago
This good quote can be interpreted better by realizing that those two groups are not mutually exclusive. There is sufficient poetry, beauty, romance, and love in medicine, law, business, and engineering. I just finished watching Manolis Kel
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by sdht0 6y ago
One thing I have come to include in my mental model when interacting with people online is the existence of people who deliberately keep up the "stupid" facade, either with the intention of trolling (think 4chan) or with nefarious
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by sdht0 6y ago
Yeah sorry, I stopped reading after I felt the discussion was going round in circles. But it's funny how the same viewpoint results in different takeaways. Of course, the topic under discussion is a pedantic one. However, "that&#x
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by sdht0 6y ago
As with many other things, the extremes might be clearer but the interesting parts lay in the huge grey area in between. Sure, we might not need to deliberately memorize syntax, but what about memorizing the different ways of writing loops
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by sdht0 6y ago
The other discussions have already pointed out some limitations in your interpretation (heh) of types. I think the key difference between the annotations in Python and types in Java, or even more strongly in languages like Rust and Haskell,
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by sdht0 6y ago
This would be pretty cool actually, if we make some key changes: "we will add" -> "do you want to add them now?" and "you have $$$ in your bank account" -> "how do you want to pay", for example.
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by sdht0 6y ago
A more appropriate example is: `var list = new ArrayList<String>();` [1] The compiler figures out the type of `list` without "annotations". Same with C++'s `auto` and Rust's `let`. [1] https://openjdk.ja
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by sdht0 6y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Pri... has a detailed explanation.
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by sdht0 7y ago
> Maybe I haven't tailored my twitter experience I think this is super important on any social website that has reached certain level of popularity (Twitter, Quora, FB). Without curation, there is just too much content to wade throu