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by wwright 6y ago
I think a lot of this is governed by Conway's Adage: the software reflects the social systems that built it. If you look at the larger software ecosystem, it reflects the larger society that built it. The priorities and social customs
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by wwright 6y ago
I think "tightly binding data and behavior" is a less-ambiguous way of phrasing the pitfall. Obviously code goes great with data; no one wants to work with strings as raw buffers all the time!
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by wwright 6y ago
If there is anything in CS which should be renamed simply because people have completely incorrect assumptions from the name, it's OOP. Everyone has someone different they think about it, and almost none of it has anything to do with l
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by wwright 6y ago
To clarify, I meant that it can be hard to convince the board to donate money to an OSS project when there is no "need."
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by wwright 6y ago
For what’s it worth, many companies have a hard time justifying “unnecessary” expenses to their boards or shareholders. Depending on company structure, their hands may be somewhat tied. Not all companies, of course; and to be clear, I think
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by wwright 6y ago
Sounds like Rust, hah.
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by wwright 6y ago
Personally I regret the new OS features; I find them clumsy and bothersome. I love the iPad overall though. (I’ve been all in on Apple since ‘08 for context.)
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by wwright 6y ago
It was written as part of a DoD project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#His...
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by wwright 6y ago
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
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by wwright 6y ago
Do modern JS engines still map an entire lexical scope to an environment at all times? It seems like it would be fairly simple to optimize it down and only box up and share the variables that the code actually closes over.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Books on Writing?
5 points by wwright 6y ago|4 comments
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by wwright 6y ago
Do you think PR teams don't have the ability to block topics on a whim?
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by wwright 6y ago
You think that Pfizer doesn’t have a whole team dedicated to managing what gets reported on them by TV news and major papers?
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by wwright 6y ago
Great news to hear!
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by wwright 6y ago
One of the main authors apparently claims that he is re-writing the core intensely. Hopefully that will go well and we'll see it re-surface, though it carries all the usual risks of vaporware. I'm really hopeful we'll see Pij
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by wwright 6y ago
If you're going all-in on the hacker aesthetic, have you considered supporting Pijul? http://pijul.org/ In theory it has many advantages over Git, with the downsides being adoption and rough edges... but those shouldn&
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by wwright 6y ago
Not just because it's a lookup-by-name, but because globals are mutable everywhere, the interpreter has to assume that some other code has mutated the variable and has to re-fetch it in many cases.
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by wwright 6y ago
You actually can define `main` in a library, as long as you handle the symbols right.
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by wwright 6y ago
I disagree; programming languages and code are built explicitly and exclusively to perform a function. Operations and purpose are more inherent to the code than their mathematical/logical nature.
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by wwright 6y ago
I use the historical perspective to illuminate how far back the orthodoxy goes; we can‘t undo that orthodoxy within two or three generations. Women are raped, stalked, harassed, and murdered because men feel they are property, and they feel
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by wwright 6y ago
Adding a way to add "addenda" to a Tweet could be cool; have a little note under the tweet to say "aw fuck, I typo'd Michael Fassbender's name" but leave the original tweet otherwise pristine
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by wwright 6y ago
The things I listed all involve supposed purity (whites are pure, virgin women are pure, gender nonconformism is sexual deviancy which is impure), rules for expression and behavior, and negative consequences for not following said rules.
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by wwright 6y ago
It's frustrating because he is so close to really getting it. "Cancel culture" is not a thing, in my opinion, because the things that people cry are "cancelled" are almost universally orthodox! - Gender critical f
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by wwright 6y ago
This proposal seems very non-composable, by which I mean that the syntax does not integrate with a number of other features. He says that currently you can’t nest it in other expressions for example, and you can’t use it with arguments st
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by wwright 6y ago
The article seems to state that the sites it lists have specific financial ties to politicians and PACs; civility of writing doesn't seem to be a criterion.
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by wwright 6y ago
And the citizen engineers will solve P = NP, and the citizen doctors will cure cancer, and the citizen citizen political scientists will create a perfect voting system…
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by wwright 6y ago
What you're describing was true in the Renaissance, but it's incredibly, achingly difficult for someone to gain expertise in multiple areas of science in this era.
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by wwright 6y ago
I agree that in the modern world, many people may find it somewhat "obvious" (or rather, they have a similar belief intuitively), but I think it's very relevant here: of course doubting science requires some kind of faith. So
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by wwright 6y ago
Ocaml is a somewhat fair comparison, but I have to say that Go is really in no way comparable to Rust. Rust is massively more complex.
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by wwright 6y ago
If you do work in the UNIX world, I’d say it’s pretty hard to use macOS without homebrew/Nix or at least Docker

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