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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Piling up features instead of reduction and unification is the clear sign of amateurism. For example, ML's (and Erlang's) unification of bindings via unified pattern-matching everywhere is a major achievement and canonical example
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
It seems that the main problem with Rust is that it has been grown up not from the CS and PL theory fundamentals , like ML, or Scheme or Erlang or even Go, and it is obviously not a small, clean language everyone loves and appreciates a
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
It depends on who is asking. If it is a "good" philosopher, who is in on the quest to unveil the nature and laws of what is, then it is settled. If, however, you are fond of joggling with abstractions and of studying of philosophe
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
This is actually an idiotic question. The molecular biology does not employ a concept of a number (or any concepts whatsoever in principle), since this requires an intelligent observer (to form the abstract notion of a number) which is not
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
JVM can't be really fast, since it does lots of context switching when doing I/O, with locking and busy waiting, JNI string conversions, useless buffer copying, etc, etc.
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Seems like you don't get it. In the comment above there is a suggestion that Erlang being well-researched and based on the right principles of FP is good-enough to build almost half of 4G platforms having crappy syntax, crappy VM, crap
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Every idealistic "business" based on assumptions and wishful thinking instead of demand will inevitably fail. Demand and demand only is what makes any business possible. One has to be an exceptional, way above average artist befo
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Ask HN: Now what?
3 points by throwaway487548 8y ago|5 comments
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Ramayana and Mahabharata do.
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
In Scala an integer has methods, like everything else, unlike it is in Java and C++, and this is the point and the big deal. 3 + 2 is actually 3.+(2) which is the right thing.
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
> treats the spec a bit like a sacred text, This is not necessarily bad, especially in the context of education. It is well known for ages that a bit of mystery and sacredness makes rather boring moral education much more emotionally cha
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Uniformity, which is a really good thing. Surely you could say (class-of 3) or (class-of nil) or (class-of '(1 2 3)) but technically these values are not objects, like it is in, say, Scala, which is a real-world example of how good
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
> an intention to “get to know” Not necessarily. It seems like major motivators (not necessarily consciously realized) are to show off and to talk about oneself. Cosplay of intelligence is another big motivator - how could one possibly l
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by throwaway487548 8y ago
Oh, come on. Most parts of Asia have no notion of a small talk, moreover, it is considered impolite and sometimes even silly. Only almost formal, exceedingly polite and necessary conversations are part of the social norm, and you see, it is