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by ubertaco 10y ago
> That's all well and good for some opinions; I'm not advocating being polite to, say, neo-Nazis who are denying the Holocaust or advocating genocide. But people rapidly expand X to "whatever I disagree with," and th
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by ubertaco 10y ago
Alternatively, in MLs (this sample specifically is OCaml) : type expression = | Number of float | Add of expression * expression | Subtract of expression * expression | Multiply of expression * expression | Divide
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by ubertaco 10y ago
Anecdotally: I picked up Okasaki's book on Purely Functional Data Structures as a way of learning FP (to learn Haskell). All the examples were written in Standard ML, so I then started picking up SML. I heard that OCaml was more widely
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by ubertaco 11y ago
>On the other hand, mice-based GUIs ARE a 100% replacement for CLIs. Really? I can automate a pipeline of GUIs? Please show me how I can automatically query a database, take that output, run complex data aggregation over those results
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by ubertaco 11y ago
There is something that feels disingenuous about taking a conscientious position against email, and then saying that you do actually use email, just by way of a "human spam filter" instead of an automated one. With that said, I ce
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Yeah, Ionide is pretty good. I personally use vim-fsharp because Atom is flaky and VSCode doesn't have a good vim emulator yet, and vim-fsharp does the trick well enough for most of my usages. Apropos of nothing, I recognize you from #
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by ubertaco 11y ago
If you don't mind reading a paper, there's a paper on it that actually is readable instead of just all whitepapery and overly-theoretical: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.01895.pdf
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by ubertaco 11y ago
What if I want to write F#? JetBrains has said F# isn't planned.
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Hanselman wrote up a "demo" blog post here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs...
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by ubertaco 11y ago
The only objections I remember hearing were from Apple. And implementing something that is in the standardization process with the TC39 still doesn't strike me as "custom extensions".
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by ubertaco 11y ago
> In order for any browser to be "the new IE", developers would have to hate it and dread developing for it/supporting it. Oh, so Safari then?
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Yeah? And what "custom extensions" does Chrome push? NaCl is almost dead, to be replaced by the standard WebAssembly. Everything else is a standard ES2015 spec that Chrome, Edge, and Firefox have implemented (to varying degrees) a
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by ubertaco 11y ago
>and so do you. Don't even pretend you don't, no one will believe you. You're projecting a bit. I try hard -- consciously -- not to shut down and shut out people who need grace as much as I do (either more or less external
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by ubertaco 11y ago
So what you're saying is, you're cool with discrimination, so long as it's not against you. So when someone decides to hold a dev conference but chooses to disallow any gay/lesbian developers, is that also totally okay?
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Kotlin's got more "noise" around it lately though, so I suspect adoption will be quicker. Also, GMC is bigger than Red Hat, and while Telegram is smaller for sure, it's got a decent amount of weight to it. Both use Kotli
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Yeah, but that's a case where "var" is probably the wrong choice anyways, because of the non-obvious "human type resolution" -- i.e. if I'm a human reading this code, I can't obviously tell the type FooDao
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Yeah, and it seems like a good project, but some downsides are that it has to support multiple compilation targets (which can split a language into multiple ecosystems), has only one major user (Red Hat), and was created by Gavin King
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Woah: >Improved Java 8 language support - We’re excited to bring Java 8 language features to Android. With Android's Jack compiler, you can now use many popular Java 8 language features, including lambdas and more, on Android versio
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by ubertaco 11y ago
>I don't think that's good enough reason for killing the usability of print statement in repl. I really don't think the difference between print(some_var) and print some_var constitutes "killing usab
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by ubertaco 11y ago
My reason for asking is because I didn't see any advantages, but I wasn't sure if I was missing something. At a glance, Showgoers seems a bit more mature of a solution than Netflix Party; they've had head-start time to integr
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by ubertaco 11y ago
>When we asked Google why now, the company pointed to to the release of Java 8 last year and the introduction of new language features such as lambdas. As such, Google wants to put more resources into OpenJDK where the team can have a bi
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by ubertaco 11y ago
My girlfriend (who lives a few states away) and I have been using http://showgoers.tv for the same thing for a bit. Are there any advantages of Netflix Party over Showgoers?
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by ubertaco 11y ago
The one advantage to be gained is that users wouldn't control indentation characters -- meaning that the editor could be opinionated about one or the other, and the user wouldn't need to worry about accidentally messing it up.
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Not really; a better analogy is if I'm in Kansas and I want to get to Beijing. I can fly all the way there, or I can take a car/plane/train to a boat to a car/plane/train. Angular is the airline flight(s), React is
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by ubertaco 11y ago
>If you are stuck with a group of developers who have no interest in learning anything new and wish to use Java until they retire then Java is the only choice. Put another way: if you're on a dev team where nobody knows Clojure&#x2F
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by ubertaco 11y ago
> IME macros have major maintainability issues in a multi-person codebase. I have heard this a bunch, and I believe it, but I've never personally had an opportunity to use a language that supports macros for a multi-person codebase.
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Yeah, the worst I've dealt with this is debating the implications of the doctrine of predestination...in Spanish...at past-midnight after waking up at 5 every morning. It makes you waaaay less coherent.
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Here, let me save you the research funding: char[] is an array of primitive chars, which cannot be null because they're value types rather than reference types. I recommend looking up a Java tutorial or two on the difference between re
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by ubertaco 11y ago
This tool exemplifies all that baffles me about devs who prefer Windows. You have to go download a third-party GUI tool to manage environment variables because the baked-in GUI tool sucks. And everyone trumpets this situation as just dandy
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by ubertaco 11y ago
Wait, so they have a custom build tool that builds build scripts for their other custom build tool?

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