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by seagreen 10y ago
It's up there with bash Clearly you've just arrived from some wonderful alternate universe where bash means something different than it does on Earth. Welcome traveler! bash is the world's default shell for a reas
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by seagreen 10y ago
I agree with all this:) I also enjoyed the article, "free as in baby" is a great phrase. At the same time I think it's important to note that the entropy analogy is just an analogy. Software is not actually subject to the law
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by seagreen 10y ago
> software decays over time, a.k.a. entropy This is similar advice to "always have your castle ready to withstand a siege". Both are excellent pieces of advice -- for 2010s software/the medieval ages respectively. But the
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by seagreen 10y ago
Imagine you want to implement a vacation-booking service as part of an enterprise system. The first step is to remove any reference to computers or modern technology. This will allow you to concentrate on the business objec
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by seagreen 10y ago
In case Eich reads your comment: given that it had to be done in ten days and "look like Java", JavaScript is a fine langauge. (But yeah, compared to languages that were designed over years obviously it's incredibly bad.) To
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by seagreen 10y ago
> "business is an exchange of documents" Did you just make up this phrase? It's really good!
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the so-called "reliability" offered by FP is can be attributed to comparable simple tasks these developers work on The kind of complexity I'm referring to is the need to synchronize and coordinate concurrency in a
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by seagreen 10y ago
FP and OOP are both just tools, how you use them is way more important than which tool you choose. I agree with this. I would note though that experienced developers don't always consider them equivalent tools, for instance C
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by seagreen 10y ago
Come on frozenport, do you really think that applies to Standard Chartered, Jane Street, or FB?
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by seagreen 10y ago
The good haskellers I've talked to about this say Haskell has only recently become a mature language=) The modern fast data structures packages date from 2007 to 2011 (containers, vector, text, and unordered-containers). Recently there
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by seagreen 10y ago
I have 2 issues with this [..] I don't read stuff on data structures to amuse myself. I want it to be as succint and to the point as possible and not waste my time kidding around. Someone should write a serious data st
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by seagreen 10y ago
Dumb question time: Aren't 95% of these use cases more easily implemented with a single central source of truth, possibly with distributed read-only replicas? Absolutely. The tech press loves its fancy new craziness. Goo
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by seagreen 10y ago
The parent comment said criticisms of private day traders were motivated by jealousy, and I said that's certainly not the case for the most notable of the critics. Buffett could have made his success as a rodeo clown for all it matters
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by seagreen 10y ago
It seems that many people that we all know do become quite rich as investors, and the secret to their good fortune is not apparent. Studies promising us "they'll all lose in the long run!" makes us feel good abo
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by seagreen 10y ago
I don't think so, that looks like the setup I'd like to be using if I was on a more traditional distro. One issue might be the handling of dependencies: does `yaourt -Qe` list everything you have installed or only programs you&#x2
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by seagreen 10y ago
The great things about NixOS is that you can describe the entire state of your system in configuration files, and then after running `rebuild` know that what's on your computer _exactly_ matches that configuration. Can you do that with
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by seagreen 10y ago
1.6 "Monad Type Class" was fixed in GHC 7.10! Some of these complaints are goofy like the one about the naming of Functor. Others like the one about records being bad are perfectly legitimate. It would be awesome to see real impro
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by seagreen 10y ago
As someone who writes Go every day for work, I can't agree that Go is simple. You may be confusing "simple" with "good". A simple solution to a complex problem may not be a good one. Go can be simple and
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by seagreen 10y ago
JS and CSS are obviously super messy, but that's a whole different issue. I'm thinking more of cases like letting people write some HTML in a local notetaking program or something like that -- what's a nice subset of tags you
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by seagreen 10y ago
I'd like access to JSON Schema's impressive tooling. I haven't seen anything like this for SQL schemas: http://jeremydorn.com/json-editor/ (Though if it exists please tell me, I'd be very interested
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by seagreen 10y ago
I think it would be useful in various situations. In my particular case clients of different quality are connecting to a local datastore. I'd like to make sure that even if they mess up validation the data in the store still matches th
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by seagreen 10y ago
Slick, thanks!
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by seagreen 10y ago
I just want a key/value JSON database with schematization. If that's "trying to hammer a screw" then so be it.
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by seagreen 10y ago
Awesome, I had no idea they'd added that!
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I don't think so -- I'm looking for a database that will actually enforce a JSON schema for you -- I don't think Postgres has any built-in support for JSON schematization. I could always do validation before inserting data, b
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by seagreen 10y ago
Has there been any work at all done on staking out workable subsets of HTML? I looked around a fair amount a while ago and the closest thing I could find was AMP. I think this is an important issue because the HTML spec is crazy long and it
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Are there any key/value JSON databases that enforce JSON Schema (or some other schema language)? That seems way better to me in situations where you actually care about data integrity.
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Uh oh, this is pretty convincing=)
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Thanks, this is encouraging.
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by seagreen 10y ago
Looks like I've got a choice to make (all on NixOS): + Stick with NeoVim and hope one of the Intero ports to that editor takes off (as I understand it there are a couple right now) + Switch to Emacs+Evil+Intero. I've never used Em

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