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by slurry 14y ago
And dropped out.
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by slurry 14y ago
Sometimes trolling is not false. You're making broad generalizations about the ruby community and it's members, many of whom do not fit your stereotypes. His generalizations fit well enough to include the dev teams of the core package man
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On the other hand, there tends to be an inverse correlation between a European ethnic group's IQ scores in Europe and their IQ scores in the United States. Germans and Dutch score higher than the Europe-wide average, German-Americans and Du
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by slurry 14y ago
Are the Nordic countries notably more homogeneous than Portugal, Greece, Montenegro, the 26-county Irish state, or Tunisia?
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by slurry 14y ago
Which is why German universities are consistently at the top of international rankings, right? Oh, wait...
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Take home finals are not the norm at Harvard. Most final exams are proctored by old ladies from Cambridge who are very strict about everything. Where take home exams are used, a) they're usually harder than proctored exams, and b) they're u
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by slurry 14y ago
Was trysqlinjection.com taken?
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by slurry 14y ago
> Java isn't what it used to be. The products written in Java are slow, bad looking and less secure. The days of Java are anyways numbered. Shorter: "I only know anything about client-side programming."
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by slurry 14y ago
> I know of a few strong mostly Haskell places in NYC alone. Hedge funds? Or something else?
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by slurry 14y ago
Yeah maybe a bit, but to me full Stallmanesque would be avoiding proprietary software even when the free alternative is non-existent or significantly less functional. That is not the situation with text editors, unless I am missing somethin
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by slurry 14y ago
Not to go all Stallmanesque here, but doesn't it bother you to use a proprietary text editor when there are so many excellent free/open-source ones around?
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by slurry 14y ago
Probably a good call. But "JSTOR killed a dude" will still be the internet's takeaway from this.
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by slurry 14y ago
True, some other things have a greater impact on premature births than prenatal care, and the US system is shitty at those things as well. I picked access to prenatal care because it's one of the easiest ones to improve, it has a positive i
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by slurry 14y ago
> In the US, premature births occur at a much higher rate than other country Pretty much what you'd expect for a system that doesn't emphasize accessible prenatal care.
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by slurry 14y ago
This kind of argument probably worked better in the 90s or something, but it does not hold as much water today. First, the exorbitant rate of medical inflation in our "market" healthcare system is a fiscal menace not only to the public sect
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> Ignoring pre-history (BASIC, FORTRAN, PDP-11 assembler, Z80 assembler, Pascal) A side effect of C universalization, especially with open source, is that people forget all about that pre-history. Hacker culture now is mostly C/Unix wit
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> I am have to reconsider the complexity of problems I try to solve for people I don't know how this product will sell but in general I think that is not a bad maxim.
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by slurry 14y ago
Your comment is correct but it doesn't contradict what you were replying to. An Algoloid language with closures and lambdas and tail-call optimization etc. can't do 100% of what a Lisp can do and maybe not even 80%, but it can still do "eno
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by slurry 14y ago
> Did you read the manual? For real? > It's not as easy as setting breakpoints in an IDE I don't use an IDE. I'm comparing against command line tools for scripting languages, Haskell and Common Lisp. Some fail more helpfully than ot
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by slurry 14y ago
Funny you should say that: just yesterday Reddit informed me that Lisp is 100% imperative because it has a loop keyword and allows destructive assignment.
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by slurry 14y ago
I enjoy Lisp, but I got to agree with you about scheme debugging. MIT/GNU scheme has to be most unhelpful interpreter I've ever used. Error messages are loud, completely unhelpful, and by the end of it I was convinced the REPL was actively
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by slurry 14y ago
Cheap shot: that's what Perl hackers say about readability. Python's support for functional idioms is limited by design . Python doesn't have to be good at everything to be a good language.
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by slurry 14y ago
Industry settled on Linux in the 90s when a) there was lingering FUD from the AT&T lawsuit, b) everyone was afraid of "embrace and extend" which the BSD license arguably makes easier.
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by slurry 14y ago
> nonfunctional languages like Python also offer better abstractions than Java, and bad functional languages don't. In some cases, but for what is being discussed here, not really. Python is as bad or worse than Java in leaking state ev
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by slurry 14y ago
I'm talking about simplicity of implementation, not interface. The fact that you use a windowing system that was designed for remoting but not displaying wigets for not-remoting but displaying widgets does not make you (or me) smarter.
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And beyond Office, if you're a non-technical business with employees in the low dozens, pretty much no one is even interested in selling you a full stack of software + support besides Microsoft and its approved partners. Pretty much any off
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by slurry 14y ago
The problem is the GUI. X with multiple widget toolkits laid over it and a desktop environment laid over that is a lot of moving parts that can go wrong. Android and ChromeOS and TiVo and your embedded-Linux toaster don't have this problem.
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by slurry 14y ago
Java developer: "How can you code without an IDE?" non-Java developers: "How can you code in fucking Java?"
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Distant second or third behind the sigils and other non-alphanumeric/non-punctuation characters.
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by slurry 14y ago
> Reddit is only worth as much as its community http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/

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