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by swift 16y ago
I wouldn't say that it's not the employee's fault, but if you are suggesting that it's other peoples' fault as well, I'd definitely agree. In an incident like this a lot of people have to have been very negligent.
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by swift 16y ago
So if someone praises their wife, your reaction is to twist it around into an insult against women? This isn't even a joke; it's just sad.
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by swift 16y ago
Sounds like JavaScript or Lua.
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by swift 16y ago
In both OOP and FP, to know what a function (or a method) does, you need (at a minimum) to check its type signature. There are _many_ OOP languages which do not use explicit type signatures, and many FP languages which do; it seems to me th
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by swift 16y ago
Very cool!
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by swift 16y ago
Ruby belongs in the list you gave as well, I think, but they all have tradeoffs, just in terms of the convenience of using first-class functions in them. Ruby's block syntax (|x,y| x * y) is a lot more convenient than the more verbose "func
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by swift 16y ago
I have used Haskell for research problems in the past and I have found it to result in a net improvement in development speed for me, even over Python. Part of this is that the way I think about problems maps well onto Haskell's feature set
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by swift 16y ago
I don't agree that this addresses the problem of employees not having a say in the management of the company they work for, unless you are talking about early-stage employees who are actually likely to be able to obtain enough stock to have
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by swift 16y ago
Sure, everyone has to trade time and energy to obtain their needs and wants. That doesn't mean that the details of the transaction as they stand now are justified.
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by swift 16y ago
Sure, you wouldn't necessarily ask a janitor or a programmer to make business decisions; the constraints of mortality force us to specialize in life. Nevertheless, do you really believe that one speciality - business - is so much more impor
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by swift 16y ago
The question, as another commenter posted elsewhere in this thread, is: does it scale? Sure, you choose your career (to a large extent) but society needs developers AND plumbers, and too many people choosing to be developers would push down
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by swift 16y ago
Same here. I have a $250 FireWire audio interface that imposes basically no load on the system even with upwards of 10 channels in use. I chose FireWire over USB because of all the complaints I saw in the Amazon reviews for every USB audio
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by swift 16y ago
> ... this separation of our productive workspace into display and input planes has been with us since the dawn of writing, ... and it means that multitouch tablets will continue to be novelty/entertainment items. > So a new tablet
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by swift 16y ago
I suspect the GP is referring to Haskell's ability to use strict evaluation via language features like the ! operator. (though I could be wrong)
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by swift 16y ago
A nice idea, but in the end I suspect the tricky part is the definition of "essential government services" and the criteria for determining whether a person or corporation is "hurting anyone or the environment".
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by swift 16y ago
Statically typed "pure" functional languages have somewhat different tradeoffs when it comes to looking up functions; the style of code completion common in OO languages doesn't work, but because the type of a function encodes so much more
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by swift 16y ago
It's unpleasant for me to watch you willfully misunderstand Alex3917 with such vitriol. It was clear to me from the beginning that he didn't mean the government literally had a campaign to poison the elderly, but rather, that that is the ef
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by swift 16y ago
Makes me wonder: would mag-lev make this situation any better? I've never been near a mag-lev train or heard it pass in real life. Anyone with any experience with them care to comment on how loud they are?
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by swift 16y ago
It really doesn't seem like a terrible idea at all to me; why NOT use demand paging-style memory management for immutable images like UIImages? This is one of the things that virtual memory is good for. Apple seems to agree. From the docume
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by swift 16y ago
In one sense, sure, the difference is obvious, but it seems to me that the negative consequences of deflation do not depend on how the deflation was caused. An excessive incentive to save will tend to curtail spending and investment no matt
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by swift 16y ago
HN seems to have decided I've commented too much in this discussion, and that's probably true, but I want to make one more post to clarify my views before I leave this debate for others to carry forward. In response to jmm, who suggests tha
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by swift 16y ago
I am sorry to hear you had that experience. I do not approve of running a school, or any organization, based on fear, much less the threat of physical violence. Is this something that would be appropriate for the adult world? I don't think
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by swift 16y ago
It doesn't seem obvious to me at all that forcing kids to attend school against their will results in them becoming "educated" in any meaningful sense.
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by swift 16y ago
If universal education was intended to solve these kinds of problems, it seems to me it has obviously failed. I strongly believe that social ills of this sort are FAR better addressed by trying to eliminate poverty than by trying to force k
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by swift 16y ago
I couldn't concur more; some students are just not mentally or emotionally prepared for school. Forcing them to attend is stressful for them and for the people around them. The ideal solution, to me, would be two-pronged: 1. Stop forcing pe
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by swift 16y ago
I concur with your point that in a situation like a blog or Twitter where you don't necessarily care about the contents of previous posts and the information density is low, top-posting is natural. However, when you DO care about the conten
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by swift 16y ago
Indeed, duck typing and structural typing are what immediately came to mind as a solution for the brittleness of inheritance hierarchies that the OP describes.
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by swift 16y ago
I agree with your complaints about the article, but the code example you give could be demonstrating programming with abstract data types in C just as well as it could be demonstrating programming with objects. In fact, unless frobnicate_fo
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by swift 16y ago
Thanks for posting this comment; though I agree with the poster you're replying to, you provide a good counterargument that gave me some insight. I greatly enjoy creating and producing, so count me in your camp on that issue. And yet I can'
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by swift 16y ago
Some titles have. It doesn't work out as well as you might hope; those inputs aren't exactly precise, and tilting the screen can be a bit disorienting. The result is that level layouts have to be much simpler to maintain the same degree of

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