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by soc88 14y ago
Aren't they pretty much doing anything these days to make it easier for Apple to “steal” their code, considering that most consumers of BSD code are Apple users?
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by soc88 14y ago
> They were at a trade deficit when they used the DM Not in the last ... 30 years. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade
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by soc88 14y ago
The fun thing is that “they are new” now lasts for almost 6 years. How long will we have to wait for the “long run” now, considering that exactly the same thing was said 6 years ago? :-)
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by soc88 14y ago
I honestly don't understand that. Data structures are just code ... isn't it much more work to change syntax and interfaces instead of adding some decent implementations of data structures to the library?
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by soc88 14y ago
I agree completely. It is surprising how many Python developers are unfamiliar with it.
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by soc88 14y ago
The Scala stuff is impressive. Updated docs at the new site: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance... The new ConcurrentTrie is also a great addition to 2.10.
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by soc88 14y ago
I would call it "node.js's largest implementation issue". It is not that JavaScript gives you another choice, while you make it sound like it was a principled decision. Other platforms/languages have real concurrency constructs and don't su
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by soc88 14y ago
No, not really. You can happily run blocking and non-blocking code on the JVM without problems. The inability of JavaScript to do that created the need make everything asynchronous, not the other way around.
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by soc88 14y ago
JVM beating the shit out of Node.js? I guess that's not even slightly surprising to anyone outside the Node.js bubble.
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by soc88 14y ago
I can't stand this apologetic bullshit anymore. If you think defending PHP makes you look witty: KILL YOURSELF. Thanks.
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by soc88 14y ago
It is certainly weird how this traffic of badly informed Lispers preaching their language in unrelated language topics has increased in the last few months... Did some people just not get Rich Hickey's memo or are they unable to drop their
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by soc88 14y ago
That's why I wrote "for me".
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by soc88 14y ago
That's my second sentence.
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by soc88 14y ago
Not really. Functional programming for me has a feeling of a mathematically sound foundation: This means a statically typed language with a powerful type-system and type inference. Immutability/effect system are a big plus. Broad range of d
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by soc88 14y ago
I disagree with that. There is great attention between language features and functionality shipped in the standard library. This http://clojure.com/blog/2012/04/19/take5-daniel-spiewak.html might also be of interest.
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by soc88 14y ago
I think the best way is to have a good taste when choosing how to solve the problem. Going purely functional (Haskell) has its own benefits but also a lot of drawbacks. If you don't go purely functional, it doesn't make sense to avoid imper
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by soc88 14y ago
Seems most of the talk is actually about Lisps. In my mind, functional languages and Lisp are two separate things. Lisps can be functional, but most of them are not.
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by soc88 14y ago
You make it sound like "rejecting blocking libraries" was some noble principle. Due to the severe limitations of JavaScript, there is no other choice.
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by soc88 14y ago
I don't understand why this is downvoted, considering that the bugfixes don't work.
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by soc88 14y ago
Thanks for rephrasing.
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by soc88 14y ago
Is this based on actual facts or did you just make that up?
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by soc88 14y ago
Nobody is forced to join the MPEG LA, in fact their behavior is pretty much illegal. They are explicitly banned to claim, assume or declare that it is impossible to encode/decode videos without a license from them. Which is pretty much what
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by soc88 14y ago
? This is the first time I ever heard of a German court involved. 90% cases have been in East-Texas so far.
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by soc88 14y ago
I use ScalaTest's PrivateMethodTester for testing private methods.
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by soc88 14y ago
It is certainly not worse than anywhere else (see for example what happened with Windows RT/Metro ... that was certainly magnitudes worse and Microsoft still decided to do it (or the breaking changes in C# 5)). The only exception is Java, w
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by soc88 14y ago
Scala might be an option for you. It is not as "stable" as Java, but more like C# and it actually has a real "deprecation cycle", e. g. stuff gets removed after two versions, both in the language and the library. Pace of development is actu
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by soc88 14y ago
I would love to see an example of that.
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by soc88 14y ago
Self-cleaning basically means that they have a absolutely minimal, unhygienic macro and implemented the method which enforces hygiene as a macro itself – pretty impressive imho. Maybe this one helps a bit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by soc88 14y ago
Contents Retrospective (00:00) - First ScalaDays in Lausanne (2010), sold out with 150 attendees. Scala 2.8 was announced. - Second ScalaDays in Stanford (2011), sold out with 260 attendees. Commercial support, Typesafe Stack with Sca
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ScalaDays 2012 – Odersky's Keynote: Where Scala is Going(skillsmatter.com)
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