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by sixbrx 13y ago
Parent didn't say they were the same, rather they implied that sum types are better. Sum types can handle multiple return values seamlessly in a typesafe way as a special case, but are not limited to that because they may have different dat
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by sixbrx 13y ago
A lot of modern mathematics also drops the parens, especially in areas related to modern algebra. It really makes the most sense and is less ambiguous, with parens not being overloaded between grouping and application.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Can't you just hit the little multi-box icon on the bottom right always (to the right of the home icon)? Then swipe an app away to kill it.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
But the referent of the "bro gamer" slight is not the game as you seem to be arguing, but the gamer.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
It really was not, unless complete eradication of unfortunate language usages is the goal, which it is not. There's a constant ebb and flow of bad usage and pushback. I only mentioned it's a losing battle because I think there should be a
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by sixbrx 13y ago
You may need to justify the "not terribly expressive" part, especially since the objection is limited to words that already have clear meanings (<adjective> <noun>) but for which the meaning is taken as the opposite. As for
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Nowhere did I suggest to do away with all idioms. I just don't like the ones of the form "<adjective> <noun>", when the meaning is far from <adjective>.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
For whatever it's worth, I took the "modest proposal" at face value and have never heard of the satirical association. Also I do rather like the idea of word groups basically meaning what the individual word meanings would indicate, as far
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by sixbrx 13y ago
The main problem I have with Eclipse and heavy IDE's in general, is their build systems rarely play well with the standard, standalone build systems such as maven or sbt, which are already necessary and sufficient with the latter even doing
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Until you do something in a moment of distraction or half-thought that would strike a lot of people as humiliating or ridiculous in some way. Like the kid who smiled so big in his school picture, now the butt of countless internet jokes an
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by sixbrx 13y ago
> People that reply with color coded text to denote who's speaking cause me a unique type of pain Not all of us do it on purpose, sometimes it's Outlook helpfully changing our text color to blue after we've copy/pasted from some text fr
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by sixbrx 13y ago
This accords with our experience with large Oracle databases as well. We've had a few panics caused by a DBA having updated table statistics when trying to optimize some query. This would occasionally cause sudden, massive changes in the w
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by sixbrx 13y ago
If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
"We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, ..." Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he had to describe parenthetically what the Windows Store is?
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Is this some kind of competition (serious question)?
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by sixbrx 13y ago
s/pretty/readable at a glance by human mathematicians/g
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Not sure why you bring up laptops, some of us use Windows to do what it does best, on PC's with good graphics cards.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Yes and no. I think the poster does make an interesting point. If the parent class is instantiable - which is a code smell already but also very common and even encouraged by some OO evangelizing[1], as is the case for the "colored point" e
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by sixbrx 13y ago
And like many brilliant and talented people, they're completely clueless that in the real world, many other people just don't have the natural abilities that they themselves have, thus they are repeatedly perplexed that others just can't do
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I don't think "quirks" is the right word for tail calling and homoiconicity, and those are powerful features that I miss in practical situations all the time in lesser languages.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing. The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of "<named-thing>'s" to "<it>'s"
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by sixbrx 14y ago
The login on the Persona site ( https://login.persona.org/signin ) doesn't seem to work for me, using my Yahoo account. It pops up the Window, I login to Yahoo, that little window goes away, then ... nothing else happens. If I click "veri
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I think your parent comment means runtimes in the sense of a garbage collector or other services that run concurrently with user code or are scheduled periodically, which will put you in a world of hurt if you touch one of their objects wit
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by sixbrx 14y ago
OK I should have used "mainstream OO". But I've always thought CLOS's approach was so far above mainstream OO that it deserves a different name.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I've been using Julia for my thesis research lately, and I find multiple dispatch to be a great match for writing mathematical algorithms, especially because of the ad-hoc specialization that it allows based on all parameter types. OO a
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Well I've had projects where I've written a lot of tests before really having the overall design right (without realizing it of course) and ended up wishing I'd waited a bit before writing the tests, because I had to redo a lot of them and
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by sixbrx 14y ago
And developers have been fretting about serializing stuff you wouldn't think would ever need serializing, ever since.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I consider it evidence that when some punk figures out how to make a black hole, we're done for. No reason necessary.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
> Making things shinier and more accessible does not equal dumbing things down. Except in practice, it almost always seems to. Which is why I don't and can't do any significant development, or work of nearly any kind for that matter, o
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Well you prompted me to check whether I understand what "absurd" and "ism" mean because it seemed pretty apt to me. Still does after checking, at least for the standards of a comment on an article, as opposed to say a language semantics jo

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