thehotelambush

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by thehotelambush 14y ago
Not to mention the increase in difficulty of remembering the variable names.
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by thehotelambush 14y ago
With the risk of RSI, I don't need to type any more than I already do. In a perfect world tab completion would exist everywhere and you could make arbitrarily long variable names. But do names like "make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_
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by thehotelambush 14y ago
Certainly that's a motive too. And it's no secret that the government (in particular the NSA) has been amassing large swathes of data on what could be the entire population of the US.
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by thehotelambush 14y ago
ok, what I said was based on something I heard Julian Assange said in an interview from about a year ago. Apparently he hasn't given any proof for his statement (namely, that Facebook has an interface for government intelligence to use). I
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by thehotelambush 14y ago
The real reason for this isn't to improve comment quality; it's so they can store information on you more effectively and then sell it to the government. Facebook has a leg up on this because of how it started, but Google wants to level the
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by thehotelambush 15y ago
What the fuck is a stack?
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by thehotelambush 15y ago
Thanks for mentioning sets - this is another thing that I would like to be built-in in Ruby. But "list(set(mylist))" seems like kind of a hack. > you can import the rational class via a simple from fractions import Fraction Sure, you ca
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by thehotelambush 15y ago
This is the kind of reasoning that lies behind LFMs: that it is better to cater to someone who knows nothing about the language (but maybe has a few mainstream languages under their belt already) than to someone who has put in the work to u
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by thehotelambush 15y ago
I used Python for a really long time and switched to Ruby several months ago. Benefits of Ruby are: -no distinction between expression and statement (everything has a value) -lambdas can thus contain any expression -much bigger range of bui