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by seertaak 6y ago
To my mind he's right on Google v. Oracle, too.
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by seertaak 6y ago
...which is a simple form of pattern matching.
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by seertaak 6y ago
Sorry, not just a little weaker. A _lot_ weaker. It lacks union and intersection types, and to my mind this is kind of inexcusable in a modern language. I'm not even talking about pattern matching, union types are simply necessary in a
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by seertaak 6y ago
First, you're clearly far more knowledgeable about Marcuse and other social theorists than I am. If Taibbi were quoting out of context (or otherwise unfairly), I probably wouldn't notice. So, thanks for drawing my attention to tha
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by seertaak 6y ago
I'm a little confused about your remark, "even in the excerpt posted here". Do you expect Taibbi to prove that Marcuse was a pseudo-intellectual, and also that his works were as "influential as [Taibbi] claims" -- a
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by seertaak 6y ago
What I find astonishing is the use of the term "Safe Space" - clearly in an attempt to mock Scott Alexander, for -- I guess -- not being "manly" enough. It's really quite funny, in a I-want-to-cry kind of way, that
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by seertaak 6y ago
If you're trying to sell the idea that a newspaper - known not only for its content, but as a reference for style and prose - is somehow obsolete, then maybe you should avoid writing like an 11 year-old on meth.
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by seertaak 6y ago
What makes them special is that, ostensibly, their role is at least in part to hold power to account. So it's important that news sites are financially independent. If not, they're in effect beholden to other actors, whether in go
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by seertaak 6y ago
Agreed. BTW if you're looking for a apt/brew like experience on Windows proper, try chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/ (Obviously there's also the Windows store, which is not bad for GUI programs, but for mo
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by seertaak 6y ago
Exactly. Kind of an own-goal too, from none other than ex-BDFL. While not totally obvious, it's not impossible to widen the syntax to allow multi-line lambdas, you just need to ditch the stack-based lexer-integrated whitespace sensitiv
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by seertaak 6y ago
Indeed, WSL2 is pretty cool. Also, Windows Terminal is actually pretty sweet, and I even gave PowerShell a spin the other day. The crazy thing is you can basically use it as a bash shell, and it gets the job done. My developer experience ri
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by seertaak 6y ago
Functional programming in Python is severely hampererd by Python's lambda keyword, which - simply put - sucks.
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by seertaak 6y ago
This is really cool. Kudos to Microsoft for really getting open source lately. I wrote an app (which failed miserably) called zenaud.io . When I started writing the app, Apple was hands-down a better developer experience. Now, it's the
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by seertaak 6y ago
Of relevance: Gor Nishanov, "C++ Coroutines: a negative overhead abstraction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fu0gx-xseY
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by seertaak 6y ago
The whole part about lenses.
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by seertaak 6y ago
It's astonishing how much category theory jargon is required to build a frickin wizard. Wizards could be made almost entirely in a GUI - double click a field or button to associate code - way back when I started programming in the mid
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by seertaak 6y ago
> While learning C, you'll also learn about make, cmake, autotools, ninja, bash scripting, etc. If you use cmake (or meson) for your project and conan for the dependencies then you don't need to know autotools, ninja, etc. Espe
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by seertaak 6y ago
That's really interesting. Do you know if this cluelessness extended beyond the military elites?
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by seertaak 6y ago
The OP wanted to represent AST nodes - the stack won't do for that: the size of the object isn't known at compile time.
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by seertaak 6y ago
Not clear about what's ridiculous about Lilly's picture. I think she looks great. You may want to rethink your attitude about trans people.
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by seertaak 6y ago
> Yeah I noped out of this as soon as I saw it. I must be misunderstanding you; I read that as you stopped reading the entire thread because there was a single point you disagree with. Is that what you mean?
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by seertaak 6y ago
... and this is the exact reason I still love hacker news.
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by seertaak 6y ago
I can't speak to Scala's compile time issues, but for C++ there are few factors contributing to long compile times. - "module" system based around textual inclusion of header file: essentially the compiler duplicates a l
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by seertaak 6y ago
I have a ThinkPad with Ubuntu 19. I'm very happy with it; it's nice to have apt, and to be able to eg use minikube with docker driver rather than a VM. It's also true that the trackpad isn't as good as Windows. (It used
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by seertaak 6y ago
I got pretty good results with chocolatey. But I agree that even WSL2 didn't cut the mustard, and I doubt GPU support will fix it. MS is advancing too slow, I think.
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by seertaak 6y ago
This looks really cool, and it's funny to think that this isn't a million miles away from the original promise of OLE.
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by seertaak 7y ago
The Scala team pulled out all the stops with Dotty. It's a real tour de force, on a par with the sea change of C++11. Even with the plaudits he's earned, Martin Odersky is for me in the top three language designers of our time. (I
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by seertaak 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying that; I was actually aware of the link to syntactic sugar and it's probably true that you want to control that independently. After all, who doesn't want to hijack unary minus for the purpose of as hackneyed
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by seertaak 7y ago
> The problem with huge interfaces or classes is they can always become larger! That's definitely a good reason to prefer small interfaces; I hadn't thought of that but it certainly makes sense. That said, I think we may be ref
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by seertaak 7y ago
I think it's really interesting to contrast this with Stroustroup's advice on concepts: "My rule of thumb is to avoid “single property concepts.”". He gives an excellent example leading to this dictum: single property in

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