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by sixbrx 14y ago
I think we're in violent agreement. It's not the language it's the usage outside of where it's appropriate.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Yes - also even a user who only wants to use client side Java outside of the browsers may be in trouble because of the automatically installed browser plugins that are part of the Java installation process. It's incredible how far and fast
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by sixbrx 14y ago
The problem with C, for most application domains, is not that it requires pointer knowledge, but that it requires constant attention to this knowledge. Combined with the fact that there's no warning when you've stepped outside the bounds
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I can't speak of Ruby (or for Dons :), but I'm not sure Python's use of hof's is a good example to learn from when it's lambda scoping rules produce such "interesting" results. >>> monomials = [lambda x: x(star)(star)i for i in
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I think it would be worth perusing (not buying), just to see if he still recommends that procedures (routines with side effects) should never return any value, but should instead set one or more member variables - one or more per procedure
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Technically Scala does support top-level functions, because a top level singleton object can extend FunctionX[...]. It just doesn't support the short "def" form of declaring them at the top level.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I might not be at the party to drink the spiked punch, but that doesn't mean I won't partake a bit...
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Why would you need to change its parts, it can be parameterized over the parts that change, by passing in other functions as arguments. It's also cheap conceptually and syntactically to create new ones, if an existing one doesn't fit the b
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I haven't tried it, but I've heard good things about the experience and the performance. It didn't seem very functional though when I first looked at it which is what I was interested in at the time. There's something to be said though for
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by sixbrx 14y ago
LOVE seeing stuff about Rust. I'm at a junction where I've been using Scala happily, but it falls down for numerical work because it can't call C libraries using large arrays without copying, because of the different memory layout used by t
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Warning: not about pattern matching as found in functional languages. Hopefully those discussing race in tech can latch onto another term. [Edit: yeah I missed the word "Media" in the title which would have been a hint...]
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Bravo. I'm interested in using this for my kids to avoid some bad teachers in high school . The fact that the classes would be accepted at many colleges will help them to be accepted in high school as well.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I misread this as "How to attract women to web developers". Boy was I disappointed...
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I'm really a bit surprised that there's not a prominent fork of OpenJDK by now, concentrating on the VM and not the Java compiler ("OpenJVM"). Tail calls, value types, easier direct calls to C to process large regions of data without copyin
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Which is unfortunately similar to the thought processes of some judges and juries.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
All fine until the last sentence which doesn't follow because all of the previous points were very minor (though I agree with some).
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I've recently finished an internal web app in Scala. It uses Play 2.x web framework, Squeryl for database access. The main pain point was that there was no way of reverse engineering an existing database schema into classes for use with Sq
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by sixbrx 14y ago
> The main reason you don't see that behavior on Linux, > yet, is that it's not worth the time for these businesses I think it's rather that almost all Linux software is either open source or installed through a package manager (usu
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I don't think Haskellers particularly want mainstream adoption. Adoption among library writers would suffice... :)
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by sixbrx 14y ago
By the same token, the lack of higher level abstractions in C also add up in time and mental effort, and you're more likely to end up, in my experience, writing a dumber and more dangerous algorithm than you would in a language that has bet
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by sixbrx 14y ago
So if they are shamelessly using any means available to try to convict everyone they prosecute, say to increase their rate of successful prosecutions and thus professional status, then by your definition then they aren't gunning for anyone?
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by sixbrx 14y ago
That's the kind of specifics I was looking for (thanks). I agree about numbers, and one doesnt have to answer with numbers if they can be brushed aside with specifics that offer proper perspective. I'm pretty hardware-ignorant myself, so I
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by sixbrx 14y ago
This comment would have a lot more force with specifics that show how Anand/Intel's numbers are wrong or misleading.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Maybe I'm one of the only ones that don't mind pdf's? Easy to drag onto my kindle for reading on the bus.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
That's really neat. My only suggestion is that it would be nice to have each regex diagram be separately addressable, by either putting the regex as a query param and yielding a raw image/svg/whatever, or by using a shortened url like a gis
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Type safe pattern matching would be my reason, followed by separation of effects from pure functions, and allowance for creating real data structure types so we don't have to do things like "(define make-tree cons)" as in the last example o
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by sixbrx 14y ago
And that productive people continue to get amazing stuff done with all of these technologies, and that starting over from scratch in any of theses areas would be far harder than critics would like to admit.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Math is a lot more than numerical computations, however. If you're modeling abstractions like vector spaces (as real mathematicians often will want to do), then functional languages are an excellent choice.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I agree, big news to most people from mars would be the discovery of non-microbial life or a big ass monolith with strange writing on it. Big news to a scientist is that some rock formation shows evidence that there probably was water on t
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by sixbrx 14y ago
So I guess the projects led by developers that are kind and helpful to a fault, of which there are quite a few in my experience, must have all the women contributers funnelled to them. I haven't seen that that's the case so I'm not so sure

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