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by whateverer 15y ago
It's very childish, to say the least, to take offense and lashing out upon hearing of someone else's morals. Or more accurately, it's self-centered, oblivious and aggressive. I'm more than content with the outcry all over the net.
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yes, but it's not just about the banal critique, it's about the subtle (or not so subtle) invalidation of the offense, the cephalic burial in sand over the problem, discussing the particulars of a single instance of a problem that's seeming
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by whateverer 15y ago
Your evopsych argument doesn't explain the drop in female enrollment rate since the 80s.
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by whateverer 15y ago
> What they don't care about are stupid language wars. Then why don't you care about PHP's horrible design, implementation, and development team? I veer away from PHP, fearing very much the Broken Window effect from all the glass scatte
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by whateverer 15y ago
To be fair, Emacs has had a package manager package, package.el (heh), for quite some time now. It can download and install packages from a repository, like Marmalade, though I've found it to be a bit shaky in the past; I've had to manuall
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by whateverer 15y ago
I don't think it's such a sound argument if you could substitute virtually any flashy project that will entrance children for that. You could easily argue that developing sentient (and sapient) Giant Mecha or bioengineering talking unicorns
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by whateverer 15y ago
Right. Your choices are a) sending a bunch of monkeys in a very expensive and uncomfortable loft to space or b) invest in a multi billion dollar kitten killing machine. Not a false dichotomy at all. Seriously, there's tons of more pressin
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by whateverer 15y ago
Gedit is the one I use most. Really, why would I need more for daily use? I wouldn't bother pasting stuff or taking simple notes with Vim, Emacs or even the specialized apps for that. I can read text files from the file browser with that, a
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by whateverer 15y ago
I guess one could pinpoint it to the clashing of the traditions of pure mathematics and engineering which one finds in Computer Science. Elegance is an often trotted epithet in mathematical writing, and sure, it has some sort of established
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by whateverer 15y ago
Users of a host platform are almost never the target of a port such as this. ``Pythonistas'' are not the audience here, it's Clojure programmers who wish to sneak Clojure in a Python environment or use its libraries in lieu of Java's. Also,
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by whateverer 15y ago
But... Uhhhh... that was Ruby you just showed there. And Python's anonymous functions are deliberately crippled because the Grand BDFL dislikes functional programming (often tried to be sneaked around by those dastardly Schemers, curse them
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by whateverer 15y ago
Dead comment, perhaps not a masterpiece but certainly not worthy of being shadow banned: by donnawarellp I have often thought that life is self limiting. For example, yeast is a living thing, it consumes sugars and it's waste is ehtan
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by whateverer 15y ago
No, but a western democracy could make up some pretext to silence protests under the guise of, say, bringing peace to the lives of all the people who don't give a shit, so that they don't fall so much in the polls.
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yeah, that was the first point. You can see a lot more variety of comparisons in the main page. The categories are a bit odd at times, but it's a good stab at being representative.
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by whateverer 15y ago
Was that in response to his exhortation to learn different languages, or do you actually believe that Perl and its self-proclaimed successors have any profound differences?
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by whateverer 15y ago
Davis relentless in his work, as you can see from his OS, but that also applies to his posting. He can easily drown a forum in a few hours by posting hundreds of messages, with most of his content being generated by his, very naive, random
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by whateverer 15y ago
Have you seen the kind of abuse that is dealt to Davis whenever he shows up, writing incoherent prose all over? He has come and gone on just about every programmer forum out there, even on 4chan's, and every single time he depleted the pati
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by whateverer 15y ago
Monads only need a lengthy explanation if you don't understand that they are a typeclass in Haskell. The monad laws you can take to be principles on which to correctly implement them, but they aren't necessary for their use. Besides, that
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yes, actually, you are right. It's all the same in Python because the references can always point to any value, and None is just a value of the NoneType. And due to Python's runtime types, it wouldn't matter either way, because even if None
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by whateverer 15y ago
Poorly worded, but the point is that every reference in Python, like in Java, ALGOL 60 and countless other languages, may be of a certain type, or point to None. In Haskell, save for a caveat[1], this doesn't happen, and you represent nulla
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by whateverer 15y ago
Well, without regulation it won't necessarily be the _FUTURE_ interest in selling an organ. As I said, desperation can make a person do crazy things, and there's more to consent whether there's a contract involved and no guns pointed to any
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yeah... that would get really morbid as desperate people start to sell their organs to secure the welfare of their loved ones. Sometimes rational actors acting in their best interest is the least important part of how you model a problem.
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by whateverer 15y ago
> Or that not all developers are as overly dramatic and full of shit as you are, but whatever. I'm redeemed in that I don't hoard all of the shit, it seems. > Right. So in other words, on the default setting a user can easily instal
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by whateverer 15y ago
>What actually intellectually hamstrings people? The fear they have of their computer, of doing something wrong, of making an irreversible change they don't understand, or installing malware. Tackling that is extremely ambitious, an
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by whateverer 15y ago
The world is mostly parallel and asynchronous, yet most languages are sequential and synchronous. And the object-orientedness claim is overstated, as you drink from a cup, rather than use rather than think it in terms of cup.spill(), signal
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by whateverer 15y ago
Yet mainstream languages are just catching up now to the state of the art of 30 years ago.
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by whateverer 15y ago
Well, all it's saying is that people feel queasy about spending on Desktop Environment decor.
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by whateverer 15y ago
You called a mistake 'trashtalking' and then went on to claim that it was the work of the intolerant Ubuntu fanboys. Your comment was pretty crap in that respect. Putting that aside, it's true that Ubuntu has completely taken away the spotl
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by whateverer 15y ago
Self-righteous indignation ahoy! We must have entered yet another ideal-free-markets vs. everything else discussion on Hacker News. Frustrated as you may be that others don't share your ideals here, your entire comment is huge, deep red, he
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by whateverer 15y ago
Actually, that's pretty much what consulting actually _is_. You dish out advice, they hand in the cash. You have to tailor your advice to them but they get to decide what to do in the end.

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