spopejoy

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by spopejoy 11y ago
Nice read, but completely oblivious to the central role of FIRE (finance/insurance/real estate) industries, plus industrial stagnation, that has obtained since the 70s in creating today's ridiculous wealth gap. I don't h
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Hmm, no votes for "Thinking in C++"? Amazing writing and incredibly well-paced introduction. Plus free online. The "The C in C++" chapter alone is magic. http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/Thin
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by spopejoy 11y ago
It's insane the ebook costs $89.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Naw, just learn a new language or two when you quit. Haskell is a particularly good choice. After fighting with Java generics for decades I found it really nice to work with a real type system. Also, go is trivial for an experienced Java pr
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Ideologies like Nationalism, Fascism are hardly "religion replacements" but genuine products of the Enlightenment. Nobody forced us to wipe out Native Americans, but there was ample rationalization from the West's most sensit
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Religion is never going anywhere, despite your pleas. And in case you forgot, secularists brought us the most violent conflicts in history, just last century. US slavery didn't need religion, nor did Apartheid. nor climate change or th
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Let's say your singling out of Muslims as somehow worse than the rest of humanity has any basis in fact or reason: what's the conclusion? close the borders; kick out the muslims; round up those who won't leave; make the rest
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by spopejoy 11y ago
The Danish political drama 'Borgen' had this too, basically EU as political exile ... so possibly Denmark too
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Hardly "pedantic" to point out imprecise language in a post about parsing source code . It's hilariously wrong when you consider the author's focus on Clojure, which introduces all sorts of wonky syntax. Indeed the arti
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Step away from the tinfoil hat. "Reconsider" is still atop the best list. Personally I found this article more interesting than "Reconsider". I mean c'mon, it's trivially true that the humbler road doesn't
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by spopejoy 11y ago
What languages have nice IRCs? I ask b/c I was very pleasantly surprised by the extremely civil and noob-helpful #haskell. Are there other nice ones out there? Good to know...
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Here is Bill Maris, of Google Ventures. This year alone Bill gets to invest $425 million of Google's money, and his stated goal is to live forever. He's explained that the worst part of being a billionaire is going to the grave w
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by spopejoy 11y ago
But ... but ... Haskell has the least syntax of any "mainstream" language (save LISP, without macros). Your example of course is `do` notation which is tricky, and is really kind of advanced -- it's much better to use `>
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Careful now, people might think you mean Piketty
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by spopejoy 11y ago
"So when building a new application, it doesn't really make sense to engineer it to be scalable from the ground up; you're probably going to throw it out before you have to worry about scaling ... if it's successful, yo
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by spopejoy 11y ago
working link https://github.com/slpopejoy/tatterdemalion/blob/master/post...
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by spopejoy 11y ago
How is the list monad a "computation builder"? Sounds to me like "programmable semicolons" and other nonsense: Monad is a typeclass that means very different things depending on what type you're using. It's t
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Insults aside, there is a glimpse of sunlight in one thing you say: I look at what's happening using "feminism" and its abhorrent. If you say you are objecting to censorship in the name of feminism, this can actually be a
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by spopejoy 11y ago
No, my point is that the rest of the world doesn't care what feminism "means to a single person": you. You sit around and trash the work of thousands of committed people cuz "waah my fave internet site did something i di
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Words aren't legos fella, and they have more than one meaning. "Sexism" is a good example. It can mean any discrimination by gender or sex. It also refers to a socio-political structure under which it is impossible for a wo
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by spopejoy 11y ago
OK I'm just going to say it. This author SERIOUSLY needs to consider making their prose gender-neutral. I could care less what the time period is, it's hostile to women to talk about the engineer "as a boy" and talk abou
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by spopejoy 11y ago
It was a joke, implying that people who can't commit will avoid databases like the plague
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Agree, the received wisdom has always been database vendor choice as a ten-year commitment, as opposed to almost anything else. It's a reason to avoid databases :)
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by spopejoy 11y ago
It's kind of a big deal. Real and ongoing issues with male-supremacy and misogyny in SV are being actively misappropriated for salacious clickbait. C.f. Newsweek's horrific cover story with a mouse lifting a woman's skirt. C.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Wow an FP person could out-arrogant smug lisp weenies[1]? 1 - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmugLispWeenie
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Ohhh, I thought the target was CLR. I didn't realize it was a compiler. FTFY
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Except, clojure isn't LISP.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
It's definitely not just a "We're really happy with Haskell here at FB" post. This probably explains the trollish comments elsewhere to the tune of "Haskell without Simon+bos /= scalable". It is a little i
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by spopejoy 11y ago
They did, though, kind of. The GUI-oriented 90's vibe, meaning zero examples that anybody would ever bother learning. The bizarre stuff nobody ever uses (Flyweight? Bridge?). Singleton -- 'nuff said. You're left with what, ma
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by spopejoy 11y ago
I characterize FP as not worse , which of course implies that it must be better in some scenarios to even compete. I characterize Go as having glaring warts. ":=" will bomb on reassignment UNLESS you destructure alongside a new v

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