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by spriggan3 10y ago
Site using Facebook for comments usually end up full of horrible spam. Facebook isn't a good solution either. IT's interesting to see how a lot of big websites moved from Discuss to livefyre, I wonder what's wrong with Discus
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Clickbait titles like that don't make me want to do business with circleci , it feels like a business full of immature kids yelling at each others. Not even going to click on the link.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Go already has generic functions : append, copy ... that are type safe at compile time, how do you think they are implemented in the source code of Go's compiler? Just like I said. Go compiler finds "append" token, and go loo
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Go needs functions that support parametric types for collections. I'm not even talking about generics here as user defined types. Let's forget about generics or "the ability for developers to implement their own type safe con
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Mongo doesn't solve the impedance mismatch either, if you have 2 classes which have a many to many relationship you'll still need to think about it when you model datas, without any guarantee of consistency. Mongo DB barely make q
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by spriggan3 10y ago
AFAIK quite a few businesses are stuck with it, as the cost of migrating to anything else would be prohibitive. It's usually easy to migrate logic from one language to another, it's harder to change a persistance layer, especially
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by spriggan3 10y ago
It's also a necessary "evil" to demonstrate that languages should have the right amount of features, no more and tools are part of a language, along with ease of deployment. It's is questionable whether Go strikes the r
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> I would likely not use it as a main source of truth for any application what the point then ? MongoDB isn't even good for analytics and big data. What do you store in MongoDB ?
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by spriggan3 10y ago
The overuse of weird operators is just a deal breaker for me. Haskell ideas are good. But I prefer explicit keywords rather than -> <$> and co everywhere. for instance, pattern matching that looks like switch statements would be m
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Is there anyone on here who uses DAW's seriously, and has tried Ardour? Can it compete with the big boys? Can it compete? Yes, a DAW hardly decides what the final result sounds like. The problem is integration. Often controllers c
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by spriggan3 10y ago
That's not that much money, they need grants from OSS foundations, OSS like that need to get better at funding. How many millions the Mozilla foundation gave away this year ? and to only what, 8 projects ? The Gnome foundation could al
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Hmm... interesting how much hate this game is getting on here, I guess that's how it is (reviews are similarly polarizing). there is as much hate as hype for this game. Hello Games vague and misleading PR didn't help. We stil
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by spriggan3 10y ago
You forgot the /s somewhere in your sentence /s . In the age of bloggers AS journalists because paying real ones is what online media doesn't do (the Huffpo doesn't pay its contributors, nor its interns) , there is very
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Education curriculum, fairness, equality, social justice, civic duty, personal accountability The problem is which form they take. Women are clearly not men's equal in the Koran. The Koran talks about all these subjects, it doesn&
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Similar punishments are prescribed by the Old Testament, so not specific to Islam. Saying that is ignoring the hadiths and the sharia which describe in great details all the aspects of the life of a Muslim. There is no such thing with
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> So, they did in effect block Flash in browser They didn't block Flash in their browsers. They just didn't implement the <object> element in the iOS browser. No support for plugins doesn't mean blocking them. Blocki
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> How long is the long run? People been complaining already for a Long time. People usually quit fast.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Amazon is large company. A really large company. Like all large companies, there are good/great departments and bad ones. Companies have processes and policies, I don't buy the "bad department" excuse. Of course, so
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Flash community was great. It was a real pleasure to work with visual artists and musicians. There will never be anything like it in web development.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Also worth mentioning Apple blocked Flash all the way back in 2007 on the original iPhone. Good to see Google doing it now, nine years later. Apple didn't block Flash, that's a lie. It just didn't implement plugins in th
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Shumway is DOA without the direct help from Adobe. That's not the first time someones tries to develop an open source flash player. They all failed.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
You're using Facebook and linked Facebook to your phone. You shouldn't do that unless you want all your private data to go to Facebook servers.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Ads don't annoy a large-enough percentage of humans Yes they do. It's just that most people don't know ad-blockers exist. I installed ublock on one of my (elderly) relative, she then recommended it to her friends. She ju
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> If you are serious about making your own programming language, I would strongly suggest to target the LLVM. Strange advice given the state of LLVM on platforms such as windows. Both Swift and Crystal, LLVM based don't run on windo
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> It's always baffled me why more people don't seem interested in adopting design by contract Because it's yet another layer on top of other layers, because it has performance implications ... A few languages such as Vala
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> I fail to see how this would be anything other than theft if Bitfinex goes forward with this. This is theft, plain and simple. They lost some money now they are taxing their customers and making pay for their mistakes. It doesn't
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> 1. Computers are functional. Just have a look at Assembly code. Looks procedural to me. FP is an abstraction on top of procedural programming. Computers aren't functional at all. Programs may be functional, not computers.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Does Github has a on premise offer like Bitbucket or Gitlab ?
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by spriggan3 10y ago
I don't think Crystal is production ready, the language is still evolving and not stable at all, from minor version to the next.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> oh look a troll, using a brand new account too, what a great way to add to the conversation. Calm down, we're not on reddit. Having a different opinion doesn't make one a troll.

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