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by thomasz 14y ago
Speaking about F# and readability: Reading F# (and Ocaml) without an editor sucks: - Nobody bothers to include type or visibility annotations in function prototypes. Signature files are not local and thus are not included in diffs etc. If y
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by thomasz 14y ago
It's a pain in the ass, and the only benefit I can think of is that it made the compiler easier to implement.
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by thomasz 14y ago
"Do not talk to the police" does not mean "do never cooperate or be utterly destroyed". There may be some damn good reasons to cooperate, but you need an attorney to estimate the impact of any statement you make, even if you did nothing wro
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by thomasz 14y ago
Hum. That rant goes against F# itself, not against the book, notably the less than stellar support for GUIs. The book itself is fine, albeit a little bit expensive. The criticism of this review, as well as the optimism expressed by the blog
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by thomasz 14y ago
The secret sauce here is not the ability to solve "maths puzzles", but specialized domain knowledge.
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by thomasz 14y ago
works with IE9 and firefox 18, not with chrome 24.
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by thomasz 14y ago
Wtf. Each and every time I think I finally got a fairly good understanding of America, I'm made aware of something like that.
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by thomasz 14y ago
This website reminds me on one thing about internationalization: Do not, under any circumstances, serve auto translated content by default. It's horrible, and a little bit insulting. If you don't have the resources to do a proper translatio
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by thomasz 14y ago
Can we please not Godwin this?
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by thomasz 14y ago
I agree that we should be careful about glorifying suicide, but if you want to minimize suicides, you have to raise awareness about depression among those affected by it and the people close to them, not tabooing it. If the affected acc
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by thomasz 14y ago
The news and eulogies are all over the net, so I don't see how denying him a black bar would prevent possible copycat suicides. The stigmatization against suicides as something dishonorable has to end. He was a great hacker and distinguishe
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by thomasz 14y ago
> its integrity has NOT been compromised Shesh. A Bitcoin has no inherent value. If such incidents become common enough, nobody will be willing to buy bitcoins for dollars or accept bitcoins as payments for goods,which means that the th
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by thomasz 14y ago
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
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by thomasz 14y ago
Just to make it clear: This was sarcasm. I never have dealt with armed libertarians beating somebody up because he supported unionization. The point is: Neither has he encountered union thugs beating somebody up because he was against union
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by thomasz 14y ago
Gosh. Ever dealt with a union election? That's exactly the problem with non secret ballots. You vote for unionization and libertarians show up at your house. Libertarians are among the most violent people around.
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by thomasz 14y ago
He didn't 'hack for profit'. He was a fence with a modem, nothing more.
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by thomasz 14y ago
Kim is not a hacker. At least he wasn't when the media declared him one, as he had never written a single line of code. Maybe he learned something since then, but I doubt that. His talents lie elsewhere. He was very good at deception - he s
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by thomasz 14y ago
For what tasks? Call someone on Skype? Maybe. Change the order of two paragraphs in a text, browsing hn or reddit? No way in hell
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by thomasz 14y ago
> aren't there also going to be many situations when the right thing to do is use an array? Sure, with a language that has super slow boxing semantics.... Just look at BinaryTree. The benchmark would show a very different picture if it
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by thomasz 14y ago
If you work with .net, the code contracts project[1] is halfway there: It's quite ugly and they made some design decisions I don't agree with (for the wrong reasons, i guess...), but it has had a tremendous impact on the quality of my code.
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by thomasz 14y ago
This looks promising. Nothing that has never been done before, but I really like the support for baked in doctests and contracts. This kind of sugar can make a real difference in terms of quality and readability #from the website, bec
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by thomasz 14y ago
Seriously, do you think that they did not special effects for the following iphone commercial? I'm not a cameraman, but i guess it's simply impossible to get this quality by just filming a real device. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSAje0
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by thomasz 14y ago
Uh did anyone really think that they shoot an advertisement with a mobile camera?
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by thomasz 14y ago
Read the article, it answers those questions.
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by thomasz 14y ago
Askscience is heavily moderated.
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by thomasz 14y ago
Israel is not a theocracy.
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by thomasz 14y ago
Requiring a certain degree of test coverage by law sounds like a good idea for life-critical systems.
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by thomasz 14y ago
As one of those who actually stood at an assembly line, I can tell you that assembling an incredibly small part of product n+1 is not, in any way, comparable to implementing CRUD application n+1.
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by thomasz 14y ago
If there is one thing I hate about conspiracy crackpots, it's that they could not, in their wildest dreams, imagine that somebody simply disagrees with them, even if their life would depend on it. No, he must be a 'shill', paid by the CIA,
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by thomasz 14y ago
The author simply observes some negative tendencies in online communities that can easily explained by simple social dynamics and asserts that sinister cabal is responsible. That is his whole point, and he doesn't argue very good. For the l

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