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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   Partially. Except (1) that only works on platforms that support it and(2) the advertising platforms will just work around it anyway.
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   There's a risk we miss the point point in this discussion (as every time the topic comes up). Even here on HN there are those who don't mind or even actively want "personalised" ads. We'd assume the community here
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   Agreed. Browser diversity might be a pain for developers, but concentrating 2 of the 4 dominant end-user computing platforms on the same browser engine doesn't sound like a positive step for users [0]. Particularly when the engine in
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   Adding to others, with disclaimer that I haven't built a large application yet so these are relative newbie comments: 1. An amazingly helpful compiler. The best I've come across for identifying problems, describing them in a mean
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   There's the graphviz lib [0] and also, somewhat confusingly, pygraphviz [1]. They are a bit different though, nicely summarised here [2]. [0]: https://pypi.org/project/graphviz/ [1]: https://github.
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   Wonder if they considered Sailfish? [0] And if they rejected, why? Agree with other posters that building both hardware and UX from scratch is incredibly ambitious. Jolla tried to do the same and it almost killed them. They're still
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   One of the most balanced, insightful and respectful critiques I've read on the topic. Brightened up my day reading it. Thanks. I've stated previously I'm an Erlang fan, for several of the reasons you've highlighted. I s
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   There are a few things, nicely covered in "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" by Van Roy and Heridi [0]. Briefly: 1. First-class dataflow variables 2. Syntax for creating flows (c/f pipe in *nix shell)
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   by spinningslate 8y ago

   I'd probably argue the opposite. Dataflow is a natural way to think about ML activities. The problem is that no mainstream languages offer dataflow as a first class construct; at best it's a set of libraries. That creates some
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    Good job at highlighting async as being cooperative multi-tasking. Those of us old enough will remember the fanfare when both Mac and Windows moved from cooperative to pre-emptive multi-tasking models. To adapt a well known phrase, every
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    No. There's a tension between protecting consumers and supporting corporates. Europe tends to err more towards the former than the US does. That's just a cultural difference. This is much less about some parochial anti-US senti
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    > Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency. Why not just remove the vote altogether? So commenters have to say something about why they agree/disagree/feel the n
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    > Interesting. I just spent a couple of weeks learning Elixir & really liked it. Any disadvantage to doing the backend work in Elixir instead? I haven't really used Elixir so can't talk from experience. I did look at it bu
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    Warning: this is deliberately not following mainstream convention/fashion. It's hopefully useful, but feel free to ignore if you'd prefer not to explore beyond more conventional options. First off, a few requirements I infer
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    That's really interesting. I'm also firmly in the space of finding CSS layout inscrutable (CSS styling is fine). I'd concluded that the issue is precisely the lack of peer-to-peer relationship constructs. Everything
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    > I don't see any material change in circumstances that would justify redoing the referendum. Other than, as noted elsewhere: 1. It was an advisory vote, not constitutionally binding 2. The leave campaign broke the law 3. To quote t
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    A great example of the fundamental schism here. We've already had a Scottish referendum, indicative of long-standing friction between Scotland and the rest of the UK (primarily England, arguably more specifically "the South"
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    I found this really useful. I've had multiple, unsuccessful attempts at grokking category theory, and never really felt I got it. The closest was John Baez's online course [0]. I don't have a particular aptitude for maths (
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    thanks for the correction.
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    Erlang doesn't do shared memory. It's a message passing, shared-nothing model. I believe GO is the same.
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    Don't disagree with the challenges about other languages being equally applicable. My first thought was also "Erlang does it at least as well as Go". Reasonable challenges on whether Erlang (or Elixir/Pony/...) ar
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    Prolog and Erlang in the same thread - is it Christmas already? Two of my favourite languages, both hugely undervalued. I remember the moment I first "got" Prolog. Having only programmed in C/C++ to that point, it took some
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    by spinningslate 8y ago

    I'd hope this is indicative of wasm precipitating a wave of creativity. From a purely technical point of view I actually don't care. Elm is fast, complete, elegant and has perhaps the most user-friendly compiler on the planet.