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by tdees40 12y ago
I feel like D's lack of adoption was mostly due to issues around the way things transpired, specifically the closed-source compiler and of course the big mess with the standard library. Otherwise it was well-placed and well-timed, jus
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by tdees40 12y ago
Oh my goodness, yes. The HN crowd probably doesn't appreciate the extent to which people who sling C++ at BigCorp are limited by the rules the company sets.
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by tdees40 12y ago
This is totally true. The downside, of course, is just how much code exists that is written in pre-C++11 dialects, and how many programmers are trained to write that sort of code. I like way more of C++11 than I liked of the prior version,
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by tdees40 12y ago
Perl is a (3) as it was the scripting language on *Nix, and CGI was pretty crucial in the early web. Ruby I guess is a (3): Rails is a killer app. C, well, it's the a major accomplishment of human civilization and has held up for half
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by tdees40 12y ago
See CPython, Haskell, C++....
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by tdees40 12y ago
There really are only three ways to create a usable language, honestly: 1) Huge institutional support. See: C#, Java, Go. 2) Give it 20 years. See: Python, Haskell. 3) Weird, idiosyncratic factors. See: Javascript, mostly. So it'
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by tdees40 12y ago
Sighs . I wish Nimrod were more popular. It seems like a better version of D. But there can only be so many languages with a fully functioning ecosystem, and I just doubt Nimrod will ever get there. It seems to be a one-man shop at thi
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by tdees40 12y ago
I'll bite: a relevant technical question would be: is D really that much better than C++11 that you should abandon C++ (with all of the consequences that would have on tooling/libraries/etc.)? I think D made more sense pre-C+
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by tdees40 12y ago
D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".
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by tdees40 12y ago
It's a fantastic blog. Lots of data, minimal bloviating.
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by tdees40 12y ago
I started programming using a copy of vintage 1998ish Visual Basic that my dad had on our computer. I drew a button, and then I clicked it, and I added code that gets run when the button is clicked. That was awesome! I built useful, visu
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by tdees40 12y ago
I'm not clear on how any of this will lead to a recession. Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession? Q1 GDP numbers were clearly affected by dismal weather (although still bad), but labor mark
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by tdees40 12y ago
Would love to! But my employer probably wouldn't be so thrilled about it.
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by tdees40 12y ago
Scipy optimization libraries primarily.
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by tdees40 12y ago
I'm currently porting a Numpy project into haskell as a self-improvement project, and it's been 69% great. But then I find some library that I have to implement from scratch when I just had it in python. That's a pretty big p
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by tdees40 12y ago
The best thing I can recommend is taking some code you put together and rewriting it in a drastically different language that you don't know. I rewrote some Python code I put together in Haskell, and it was a transformative experience
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by tdees40 12y ago
News flash! Generally liberal college students prefer liberal commencement speakers. Hardly a surprise, really. How many college students do you know who are looking to hear from George W. Bush or Ted Cruz?
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by tdees40 12y ago
I work in finance, and I have an aesthetic love of finance. I just find it interesting. But most people who work in it have no interest whatsoever. They just want money. This means that it tends to be a joyless environment full of assho
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by tdees40 12y ago
Where I live most cyclists are poor and Hispanic. But sure, why not!
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by tdees40 12y ago
Man, this guy is going to be REALLY upset when he hears about how cars constantly speed, roll through stop signs, and text on their cell phones. I say until we get those problems stopped, we don't give cars the special treatment of ha
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by tdees40 12y ago
I just ran the same test and got 80.8K pystones/sec (CPython) vs. 234.3K/sec (PyPy.js - Chrome, after a few warm-ups), so yeah, wow.
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by tdees40 12y ago
Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.
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by tdees40 12y ago
Sure, but I don't think that's what most people are thinking about here.
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by tdees40 12y ago
Investments get booked as assets, so they have no impact on profits. This mistake gets made frequently with respect to Amazon.
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by tdees40 13y ago
The discount is presumably also due to the fact that no one in management - least of all Marissa Mayer - has any interest in making Yahoo smaller. Although this would likely be the right thing for the shareholders, it would make their doma
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by tdees40 13y ago
My favorite Marquez story is that he never used adverbs ending in -mente, so he called his English language translator (Edith Grossman) and requested that she not use any adverbs ending in -ly.
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by tdees40 13y ago
The biggest problem is just the AMA. They limit the number of doctors in America, so there are just too few. This drives up the salaries for the few doctors who live the tell the tale (but certainly don't want to go into primary care
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by tdees40 13y ago
My dad played football, and so did I. My child will not, because his brain is more important than football. That's anecdotal, but there are plenty more like us.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Is Musk capital constrained? Does he have projects out there that he'd like to do but can't get investors for? This seems doubtful to me. Whereas stamping out malaria is always capital constrained.
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by tdees40 13y ago
In the words of the poet Philip Larkin, we're all "stumbling up the stair/into fulfillment's desolate attic."

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