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by wes-exp 13y ago
The author forgot node.js! It has... modules!
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Out of curiosity, how would you define my example stringify function in Haskell with "no cost" safety around the argument type?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Terms like "straw man" imply that I'm trying to debate, but I'm not. You asked how correctness could be contrary to pragmatism, and I tried to provide an example.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Guaranteed correctness has a cost in the form of extra specification needed to get things done. For example, many type errors are essentially noise: they do not catch real bugs, and they create needless busy-work for the programmer to cor
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by wes-exp 13y ago
This comment is spot-on. According to the Yegge programming axis, Haskell is extremist conservative (emphasizes safety above all) and Clojure is some notches down into a more moderate zone (merely "conservative") that balances saf
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Some of the most fascinating and, frankly, lucid technology discussions I have had were with highly experienced (dare I say, older ) engineers who actually know a thing or two. I find it completely scandalous that, in addition to these guy
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I hate to be a party pooper, but I think this site is completely naïve from a legal perspective, and actually harmful. There are many ambiguities not covered by simple bullet point descriptions. Ask yourself, why are licenses long in the fi
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Sadly, oftentimes it is industrial affiliation that can be the biggest predictor of whether a published work supports one side or another in particular issue. Usually this is due to companies funding their own biased research.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I'm sorry Common Lisp is not elegant enough for the author, but it has a great community and library support. (At least compared to scheme) Efforts are also underway to spruce things up a bit. https://github.com/fukamac
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Maybe he is under the illusion of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis in thinking that lack of punishment implies lack of wrongdoing.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Game of Thrones is available on both iTunes and Amazon Instant Video for $2.99 SD / $3.99 HD per episode. I'm not sure if that counts as "failing to adapt to new media distribution".
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by wes-exp 13y ago
The whole notion of a "modern" programming language is a big joke considering that mainstream languages have been playing catch-up to Lisp for decades.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Are you sure? Why does the restore process require a server address? https://electrum.org/seed.html The screenshot uses ecdsa.org, which seems to be just an Electrum server of some kind.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
No backups needed Doesn't Electrum do this by backing up your wallet to "the cloud"? Even if it is 100% properly encrypted, I can't say that I feel good about this. Feels like one bug away from compromising many people
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by wes-exp 13y ago
It seems like secondary DNS is not supported, but you can change your primary DNS with the "Transfer DNS to Webhost" option.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I can see that the freedom to copy must be very important to you. ba-dum ching
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Quite frankly, not sharing GNU's goals is a feature, not a bug. The less the source code is encumbered by onerous political restrictions, the better.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
On top of the growing mass of lonely single dudes If housing were actually affordable to anyone other than (predominantly male) tech engineers, this would be less of a problem. Hence, suppressing growth in housing makes the problem worse,
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by wes-exp 13y ago
As Marc Andreessen recently noted, “They are attacking the demand for housing [whereas the discussion should be] around the supply of housing,” Andreessen said. “Market forces want the Valley to expand; if our politicians show leadership, w
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Even barbers are licensed professionals. Meanwhile wannabe "software engineers" are copy-pasting together web applications that store the personal information of millions of people without the slightest thought behind security or
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by wes-exp 13y ago
make sure the larger culture knows what it doesn't know A million times this. I am not sure if it is possible though. I fear that any programming training as part of basic education will only expand the number of people who feel en
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Indeed. There is no risk-free approach to being on the user's side in a case like this. Choose from: 1) get acquired and risk a possible shutdown by the acquirer; 2) don't get acquired and risk a possible shutdown by worsening eco
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by wes-exp 13y ago
zero precipitation is horrible for your skin Despite the lack of rain, humidity right now in the Bay Area is still not horribly low by national standards. Looking at the local forecast I am seeing humidity in the range of roughly 40% - 60
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by wes-exp 13y ago
But Java is "enterprise"!!!1
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by wes-exp 13y ago
It is entirely reasonable to demand some professionalism and set some standards in fields besides medicine and law. Already, many engineering disciplines are regulated and require a license to practice. As computers become more and more wov
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I don't think this it is the fault of patent law that companies do not fund basic research. I think is it just the fact that it is very hard to profit from basic research, fundamentally. If anything, patent law (for all its faults) a
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by wes-exp 13y ago
The public may fund it, but too much of the results get copyrighted by Elsevier and patented by other parties. Though it is lamentable that publicly funded research papers are often encumbered by a fee for access, the general knowledge co
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I suspect "possible" here is not used in the absolute sense, but more just "it would be a total pain in the ass in C, whereas Lisp excels at it". After all, anything is "possible" with hand-written assembly cod
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by wes-exp 13y ago
By contrast, I recall the story of a guy who had the choice between C and Lisp for his programming class, and chose Lisp because he couldn't figure out C. IIRC Richard Stallman also has a story about secretaries at MIT using Lisp for b
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I have to believe that there is a happy medium somewhere between prematurely categorizing kids and trying to make every single person to learn to code and obtain a 4-year STEM degree.

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