whateverer

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by whateverer 14y ago
I only see one person throwing a fit over a product comparison here.
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by whateverer 14y ago
Now, now. You can't claim that they aren't similar, because the concept here is unifying both launchers and task lists, which was what distinguished docks from task bars before. They have different features, yes. Their animations are very d
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by whateverer 14y ago
"Most users never program their computers themselves. Anyone can plainly see the historical trend from the late 80s onward that the average user has no interest in the internals of their computers or in investing time in automation which ex
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by whateverer 14y ago
That was hilarious, man. Thanks for that. Oh, wait, it was serious?! Well now, how are you going to map this issue to something which isn't, in the end, anecdotes, since it pertains to human emotional responses? Are you asking those etherea
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by whateverer 14y ago
I think it's much more likely that it's just somebody who dislikes a language and stated it in a smartass way, as programmers are wont to do.
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by whateverer 14y ago
Maybe it was the way you phrased your post? The sentence "If you found this interesting you might also enjoy" probably sounded 'botty' to the spam filter. Aside: There seems to be some poignant commentary crying to be wrested from the above
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by whateverer 14y ago
> It seems to me that there are two ways one can approach this subject. On to proclaim that these are intentional acts of portraying females in a negative light and keeping them out of the tech industry. I'm not sure I've actually seen
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by whateverer 14y ago
Yes, I agree. Way better than most HN articles.
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by whateverer 14y ago
But isn't Jython years behind the CPython version, PyPy still experimental and on Python 2.x, and IronPython mostly a novelty? Stackless seems in better shape, though, and couldn't say anything in respect to usage. The argument for Java is
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by whateverer 14y ago
I upvoted you. This whole semicolon war is the most banal and self-aggrandizing conflict I've seen in a while, rife with as much vanity and childishness a the ``blogosphere'' allows, as evidenced by this post. Can we move on, please? At lea
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by whateverer 14y ago
Alright, I'll spell it out for you: the behaviour may be what you'd expect from floating-point comparisons, but it doesn't have to be a floating point comparison in the first place .
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by whateverer 14y ago
Yes, I have, thank you. How's the health? Oh, and "everyone knows that PHP lights the upper-rightmost pixel in you screen purple and will crash if there's no screen" would not, in fact, justify such a thing.
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by whateverer 14y ago
> "no good reason" is entirely subjective, though. If your purpose is to make the language simpler to newcomers, implicit conversions everywhere are a great way to get things done. And the popularity of PHP (especially for new-to-progra
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by whateverer 14y ago
Why, it does indeed say, a link or two down from there, that strings will be coerced to float: http://web.archive.org/web/20091024234517/http://www.php.net... The point, however, is that you shouldn't pepper your language with operations
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by whateverer 14y ago
> It does not throw it away on an obscure whim. So you could have predicted this yesterday? Just because it's codified somewhere, it doesn't make it clear, or anything other than a whim, or a product of circumstances, at best. That's no
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by whateverer 14y ago
That's an opt-in workaround, and proposing it as a solution is like trying to cover the Sun with your thumb. You'll have an infinite number of errors everywhere you can input numbers where the == operator is used, but you can only choose to
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by whateverer 14y ago
> Intolerable for real-world use. A toy language. Alas, PHP, we hardly knew you... I'm sorry, I would like that to be true, but programmers rarely are half as smart as they think they are. We have many more years of PHP and its resultin
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by whateverer 14y ago
Well, you can't really much rip the US highway system off the face of the Earth, and I'm guessing that it's rather inconvenient to route around it, but you surely can not use PHP, and inform those poor misguided souls who believe that it'
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by whateverer 14y ago
> PHP wasn't "designed" ... it evolved. Pieces were added, here and there, re-factored, deprecated, etc. etc. We are all aware of that. We don't like that. Not because of its genesis, but because of the result of that process. > PHP
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by whateverer 15y ago
> racist against whites I believe that, technically, the term would be "discriminatory" in this case, white people being in a position of relative power and privilege in the West (and most of the world, really. White people are esteemed
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by whateverer 15y ago
> Adorable racism. How so? Shutting your eyes doesn't make the bias go away.
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by whateverer 15y ago
I don't if I get this, but I'm having a hard time picturing just who are you able to get for less than USD 1000 /month, since most developers here would scoff at less than ~USD 1500 (CLP 700000) a month as a starting salary, maybe less if y
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by whateverer 15y ago
Walking out may feel good, as righteous indignation so often does, but it doesn’t help your situation. You give up any chance you had of getting the job. Lying is easily disproven, and. worst of all, requires you to lie. The best answer is
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by whateverer 15y ago
You are right with respect ot maturity, and Ada does have some high level concurrency constructs, though I'm not well versed enough to compare them with other language's. I think a main selling point for Rust is its type system: it's more u
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by whateverer 15y ago
I think that if the meaning of "knowing" wasn't questioned, nobody would have bothered to answer what it is. Edit: And I don't think that "bad" is really pertaining to this discussion. Edit2: Oh, lookie, the submission is dead now. But why?
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yes. For how smart the shell looks, the windows and its contents look very bleak, sterile in the best of cases. I guess they aimed for neutrality there, but I can't say I dig the paper-polypropylene look.
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by whateverer 15y ago
I know that the grievance is on the design decision, which is a point of a trend which the dev team will follow, but as for the window switching, there are several extensions you can install for that; just flip the switch on the webpage and
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by whateverer 15y ago
How so? I saw it ragging on the current crop of faddish languages and palette-swaps of existing ones (coffeescript, dart, to a lesser extent go), the oddly celebrated amateurishness of current programming language's design, with whatever bi
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by whateverer 15y ago
In its defense, it was a piece of very well written and scathing satire.
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by whateverer 15y ago
Many would see Pierce's media efforts as childish and unprofessional. Well, he explained publicly why he opted out of the employment offer. when you make demands and the other side ignores you, it means you aren't in a position to make d

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