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by spopejoy 11y ago
Yes, it won’t always keep you safe from data races as Erlang will, but Erlang keeps you safe by copying your data over and over, making it significantly slower, TANSTAAFL. Potshot. Defend it at your peril.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Go succeeds because Google's behind it. Go certainly doesn't succeed because of smug/boring articles like this one. The potshot at Erlang early on (also cf. slurs on Rust and Haskell in some of these comments) betrays the sam
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by spopejoy 11y ago
My problem with the operators is they screw up function composition. `over`, `set`, `view`, `firstOf`, `toListOf` compose normally with the datastructure on the right. The operators flip this and therefore require the dumb `&`. It&#x2
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by spopejoy 11y ago
They're about equivalent IMO, which yes, means golf. However, I don't see what's so terrible about learning 3 new functions . Sorry it doesn't look like Javascript anymore.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
In most cases (like the example), it simply allows you to call "effectful" code (often monadic, IO etc) to populate arguments of a function. My favorite example is "I want to grab three web pages concurrently and return the
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Big time. It's especially depressing given their huge focus on "object oriented programming," given the 1000s of travesties birthed in its name on an hourly basis in BigCos of the world. 1) Even if you don't code FP in y
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Reminds me of the Aphex Twin "selected ambient recordings 1", was he rocking an 808? Hihats sound the same ...
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Is there any interest in blessing the Haskell driver as "official"?
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by spopejoy 12y ago
It seems to me this standard is only really useful for APIs to be consumed by a specific GUI or GUI framework, as opposed to "data-centered" APIs that exist to provide access to a particular dataset for myriad purposes. Having a &
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Read Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" for cite after cite. My copy is lent out to a friend and the internet isn't bringing up specific cases. Excellent, irrefutable and seriously depressing book.
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Agreed, the fact that we even talk about a "business model" for incarceration is horrific. Indeed much of NY state is economically dependent on corrections, it's ugly. Still, lawyers aren't getting rich defending the mas
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by spopejoy 12y ago
It's a little disingenuous to ask so innocently. The guy said something off-color enough to get a drink in his face, and he didn't suffer for it. Internet's a big place, if he wants to tell his side of the story it's eas
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Wow, it took less than 5 minutes to find random internet justification for your wildly unrealistic notion. Bravo sir on your googling skills.
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by spopejoy 12y ago
If you are a strange man trying to talk to me on my way to or from work, when I am commuting alone, you are a harasser, pure and simple. You are threatening. And you need to leave me the fuck alone. That's hardly "over-the-top r
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by spopejoy 12y ago
felony conviction almost guarantees there's probably a lot of other differences Do you have some statistics you'd like to share? Otherwise this seems like the exact bias that silently justifies relegating felons to sub-citizensh
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by spopejoy 12y ago
I realize it's fun to paint lawyers with the same brush, but let's be clear here: prosecutors are the ones gunning after constant guilty convictions, and the Roberts Supreme Court has stripped even the most basic ways to challen
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Guess what friend -- GPL is not going to die no matter how much you and your short-sighted friends pray for it. It's survived other legal challenges before and it will survive this one too. Your companies that "simply banned"
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Agreed. I can't help but be depressed that anti-GPL FUD dominates convos on HN. I mean, my own work has been disrupted by GPL being "inconvenient" but I will still defend it. My life has been enriched by the great software wr
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by spopejoy 12y ago
On the other hand if they win it will mean the end of most corporations using GPL code [citation needed]. I'm very irritated by this FUD "Just think of the jobs!" line of thinking. Companies are aware of the "license r
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Meh. Enterprise is already terrified of GPL -- but they have to use it because there's simply too much good software written under the license. There's lots of emphasis these days to "pretty please avoid using GPL" but
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Thanks for asking! Argentina: 1890. Chile: 1891, plus direct support for the 1973 coup. Sorry about Paraguay and Brazil, US merely engineered and directly advised murderous corrupt dictatorships. Invasions however also include Bolivia, Cost
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by spopejoy 12y ago
effective military Huh? What wars has the US won recently? Unless "effective" means "effectively redistributing wealth to shareholders of defense contractors", in which case I agree 100%.
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by spopejoy 12y ago
As far as superpowers in history go, the United States post WWII is downright benevolent I'm not sure the citizens of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, D.R., Honduras, Panama, the Philipp
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by spopejoy 12y ago
"Bare" snap (snap-core and snap-server) are Sinatra-like too.
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by spopejoy 12y ago
“Make illegal states unrepresentable” Types pay off the most on large systems. Architectural requirements captured formally. This more than ANYTHING else is why I want to move enterprisey app code to Haskell. Having worked on numerous g
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by spopejoy 12y ago
There's a difference between "lost" and "wasted". Yes, those who pass are lost, and all their precious thoughts and unwritten masterpieces are gone forever. But "wasted"? The definition above says "ca
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by spopejoy 12y ago
The conclusion of your argument is that nothing less than immortality is acceptable. What's the difference between 70 and 700 years? If anything, the loss should be all the greater at 700 -- losing 700GB hurts way more than 70. Check i
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by spopejoy 12y ago
I don't see the logic in this. We exist because other creatures pass away. They must so that we can eat them. Why is it a tragedy when the top predator dies, but not its prey? It certainly isn't "wasteful". The earth&#
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by spopejoy 12y ago
Larry Ellison, co-founder of computer company Oracle, told his biographer Mark Wilson. “How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?” Succinct summary of the vapid naivete of zillionaires who can't incorporate d
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by spopejoy 12y ago
but (especially in some industries) they're terrified of the GPL because they don't want to restrict their options in the future if they need to use software that isn't "free" but is required for them to be success

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