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by wirrbel 10y ago
As a german in the US, I suddenly felt as if I had a OCD about the way to bag stuff. Store employees were more or less dumping things kind of randomly in bags without sorting by weight and by robustnes of the product. On the other hand decl
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by wirrbel 10y ago
They are so small, so that you just pass through the items into your shopping cart. Basically you don't have much of an option. If you shop without a shopping cart (like me buying just a few things that fit into my bagpack) the cassier
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by wirrbel 11y ago
I concur with your uneasines about operators, I often find them used "too often" in Haskell, I have been a Clojure/Scheme guy in the past. But: For Functors and Applicatives for example, they do make sense. If you are using t
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by wirrbel 11y ago
indeed, fixed it, thx.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
I felt the same way (and still do in general, with notable exceptions). I.e. to put this first: I think a lot of the Haskell community is obsessed with mathematical "cuteness", which basically they take to mean "infix-operato
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by wirrbel 11y ago
Click-bait.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
What about Python's Guido van Rossum? Or Larry Wall I am much more suspicious of them than of Hickey.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
thanks (for the compliment and for correcting me) Using words that just don't perfectly fit is probably a good illustration of differences between a speaker of near-native proficiency and a native speaker. Choosing odd words here and t
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by wirrbel 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology
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by wirrbel 11y ago
The parisian dialect is to my knowledge the reference dialect that you can focus on, and it is the prestigious dialect. The situation is different in English where the situation is not clear at all. That however was not the point I was tryi
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by wirrbel 11y ago
Yeah that point might have been a bit exuberant. Nevertheless, after 3-4 years I think you have covered most grammar topics, maybe excluding passe simple and subjonctive. In English you'll continue to learn new concepts such as "c
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by wirrbel 11y ago
At school, kids would generally like English classes, and not like French classes not so much (both foreign languages). I learned both and I think I can draw from experience in what is easy and what is difficult with the both of them (frenc
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Exceptions – The Dark Side of the Force(holger-peters.de)
2 points by wirrbel 11y ago|0 comments
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Objects All the Way Down(holger-peters.de)
43 points by wirrbel 11y ago|31 comments
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by wirrbel 11y ago
not associated. It is indeed a kind of a pun. wirbel is whirl/swirl and also metaphorically "fuss", wirr means confused. So I put those words together, as BlackFingolfin described.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
wouldn't it be feasible to write a Cython compiler that doesn't compile to CPython API but to the ffi that PyPy likes more?
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by wirrbel 11y ago
This is a problem, even more so if you have regions with and without tuition. If provinces have the same tuition rates, there is not much damage done, because your province will receive employees from other provinces. I have been to Canada
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by wirrbel 11y ago
Take a look at loglan, lojban out of curiosity if you want to. If you want to spend effort and learn them, reconsider learning "normal" foreign language that comes from another language family. Even if potentially using Loglan&#x2
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by wirrbel 11y ago
essentially, a majority of these tips still hold true. While nowadays you might get through with writing inefficient code, you will end up hitting a performance limit and all of the sudden, you are in the same situation as in '82.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
for the point of the parent comment, ruby was chosen for its merits, not designed by 37 signals.
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by wirrbel 11y ago
37signals and ruby? They were involved with Rails, but did they sponsor Ruby?
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by wirrbel 11y ago
more red flags. Taking commit counts as a measure (and line counts for the same reasons) is like evaluating a writer by the number of words they write without looking at the content. A writer could copy a phone book to get good reviews. Ind
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by wirrbel 11y ago
I think there are a few red flags here with the way you are doing scrum: I have never heard of individual velocity measurements, they are wrong and should not be measured. I also think that burndown charts and velocity are for the team, not
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by wirrbel 11y ago
Well summarized. Especially appaling is that the author does identify agile concepts wrong. The sprint impediment is taken as a measure for weeding out low-performers. I am not really in the mood to look up an exact citation, but I have alw
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Ask HN: Which projects (applications) use Rust?
8 points by wirrbel 11y ago|4 comments
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by wirrbel 11y ago
another great way of making code unmaintainable: Either with or without the underscore: Characters are for free, why don't you turn your variable name into a short story?
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by wirrbel 12y ago
What kind of mathematics do you want to learn? If you are interested in discrete mathematics and algebra, Haskell has something to offer. I would also read http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Mathematics-First-Introduct... whi
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by wirrbel 12y ago
does javascript reduce "accessibility" as in: does it keep average users and handicapped users from accessing the pages? The usual texinfo output is probably more accessible from a technical standpoint, but from a usage perspectiv
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by wirrbel 12y ago
really interesting how this tiny, old editor provokes so much "just use emacs" "just use vim" comments. kind of missing the point
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I should have known better when I ordered the book. Hoyte's first intention, writing a 2nd Volume for Paul Grahams On Lisp, which goes into detail about macros, is actually quite good. It just does not live up to "Volume 1".

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