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by sfilargi 10y ago
> It seemed there was a lot of focus on the more ML-ish aspects of its roots, such as the module system. The language also had a convincing future story for both green threads and garbage collection. So, OCaml?
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by sfilargi 10y ago
What helped me when starting with OCaml is always declaring the types in the function's arguments. The compiler errors started making a lot more sense.
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I think in that event, teaching them how to fish would be more important than giving them a fish. My suggestion would be something that would promote free thought. "All men are equal and thought, ideas, and speech should never be punis
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by sfilargi 10y ago
What works for me is a couple cups of Chamomile tea before bed.
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They should name it Monty. A little humor will help with the tension.
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Ridiculously fast! Would love to hear about your stack. C, what else? What database, template library?
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I didn't imply the opposite. Just stating a fact that was omitted.
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One more difference is that L1 visa holders cannot change companies.
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Yeap! If you can't trust the seller, why not go directly to eBay? The other day we received a parcel from Ukraine. When I openned it my wife said "I don't understand, why is it from Ukraine? I ordered it from Amazon!" Si
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Practically, if one doesn't use a password manager, they probably have a much more serious problem than weak passwords, i.e. password re-use.
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IMHO Amazon is diluting its brand by allowing third parties to sell items in its website. It is not rare that non-techie people buy stuff from third party sellers believing they buy from Amazon.
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> if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department It's a very unfortunate argument for advocating privacy. Privacy is so much more than getting away with a cr
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I wouldn't blame MongoDB. Any machine connected to the Internet should start with a configuration equivalent to: ufw default deny incoming ufw allow ssh ufw enable And then start punching very specific holes as needed.
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> The Apple Watch was born out of Jobs' frustration with the state of data sharing in patient-doctor relationships. I didn't know that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the watch would be introduced in the state&#x2
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> Apple decides what users want and builds that. You have a point there, but that decision didn't use to be at random(s/random/internal politics/), the way it seems to be now. "Innovation is saying no to 1,000 th
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How are they dealing with the absence of the 'Esc' key? Is it annoying to have the soft key or hardly noticeable?
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> Because it’s not straightforward, and it’ not that many people? Facebook has 100x that number. Twitter has 25x. Airbnb hired almost 10x that number in 2015 alone. Stripe has almost 4x that number. While true, this doesn't really a
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by sfilargi 10y ago
It would be interesting to know what Medium's main expense is? Is it the people? The infra? Also would be very curious to know how much do they earn for advertising.
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If you like iTerm2 you might want to try a tiling window manager like dwm.
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Dell launches XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop, starts at $1,000(venturebeat.com)
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Ironic isn't it?
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> It's very rare that any programmer switches computer languages. Do you have any data to support this claim?
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The differences are not that big to make a difference in "learning". If your question was should I use 3 or 4, then my answer would be, depends on your project. But for learning, the version doesn't make much of a differenc
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by sfilargi 10y ago
I am wondering why python community focus seems to be shifting away from gevent and towards the asyncio framework. Am I the only one who finds the programming style of using async/await inferior to that of gevent?
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Nice, thanks. Pretty impressive documentation. Seeing the praise it gets here, I will definitely give RoR a chance for my next side-project. Thanks again.
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> I guess downvoted because of disagreement. Fair enough :D > A few weeks later I have forgotten the specifics about my own code as well. > Also: often there are fewer bugs in library code. > And: getting help (paid or through s
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If you are lucky enough to hit it during development or testing, then yes, fair point. If you hit however in production and only under load or some corner cases, it must be a real bitch to try to debug code that you haven't wrote yours
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> IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. That has been the reason I always avoid huge frameworks like RoR. If I was to hit a bug like this, I wouldn't know where to s
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Honest question as I have never worked with MS-SQL: in which use-cases would it be a better fit than PostgreSQL?
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> (what) Uber's cars are doing clearly does constitute autonomous under their definition. I'm left to conclude that either Uber messed up big time, or rep speaking in that article doesn't know what they are talking about,

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