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571.
by xedrac 5y ago
Sure. I think the point he was trying to make is that some languages are more complex than others. And in that context, the fact that Lisp has the flexibility to override just about anything actually makes the language more complex. Beca
572.
by xedrac 5y ago
All special forms (if, let, progv, etc...) are very similar to keywords in other languages. But there's only a couple dozen of them. From Wikipedia: "Some Lisp control structures are special operators, equivalent to other languag
573.
by xedrac 5y ago
I can't tell if things are really that bad at Blizzard, or if the people working there are just hyper sensitive and looking for ways to put the activist in Activision. It'd be interesting to know what percentage of the employees
574.
by xedrac 5y ago
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
575.
by xedrac 5y ago
Build more nuclear reactors and use them to desalinate huge amounts of water?
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by xedrac 5y ago
Dynamically typed languages are so prevalent, where the approach is "blow up at runtime". I think in some contexts, this is fine. But in other contexts, it's more like a 1000x problem. Nothing bothers me more than runtime
577.
by xedrac 5y ago
A very small (single digit) percentage of Utah grown alfalfa is exported out the country.
578.
by xedrac 5y ago
In Haskell, monads are all about composition of types. While the glue code doesn't go away, it stays neatly in the bind operator's definition for a given monad, which makes the rest of the code compose very easily. So no, it doe
579.
by xedrac 5y ago
Yes, it grew 30+ new appendages. Jokes aside, it has improved quite a bit with lambdas, move semantics, type inference, standardized filesystem api, smart pointers, optional types, etc... Despite this, it still can't come close to o
580.
by xedrac 5y ago
I highly doubt you lost the majority of your muscle mass, unless you had very little fat on your body. More likely is you depleted all glycogen stores in your muscles which is mostly water, making your muscles deflate significantly.
581.
by xedrac 5y ago
As someone who has invested heavily in C++, and really likes the how modern C++ has evolved, I actually have a hard time imagining myself ever starting a new project in C++ again. It's not that I can't write very reliable code in
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by xedrac 5y ago
Demoing every day only works if your work is easily visible, but that's beside the point. Micromanagement to this level is not conducive to a healthy development environment.
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by xedrac 5y ago
With two equally skilled candidates, defaulting to either candidate because of their race/gender/etc is still discrimination. Flipping a coin would be more fair. I honestly haven't encountered this situation though. You co
584.
by xedrac 5y ago
And yet diversity goals by definition are discriminatory. Perhaps in positions where merit isn't so important, it seems less discriminatory for some reason.
585.
by xedrac 5y ago
I suspect that a large percentage of Firefox's remaining user base are power users - people who tend to value function over fluff. It seems odd to me that they'd alienate their current users like this. I've used Firefox fo
586.
by xedrac 5y ago
Somebody likes to generalize large populations of people - sort them neatly into buckets and label them.
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by xedrac 5y ago
About once a month, I abstain from all electronics (phone, tv, computer, consoles) as well as food for an entire day. This helps me guage what my addiction levels are at, and although it's not typically a pleasant experience, I always
588.
by xedrac 5y ago
Unless Nano has changed a lot in the last 10 years, there's just no comparing it with Vim when it comes to productivity. Vim would blow it out of the water 10 times over in just about every use case I can think of, except initial lear
589.
by xedrac 6y ago
I've found that I almost never get the rates I pay for with Comcast. I'm currently on their 600/35 plan, and I'm lucky to get 200 down and 15 up. So even if Comcast were to roll out "gigabit" everywhere, it w
590.
by xedrac 6y ago
Please, do not infect Audacity with Electron.
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by xedrac 6y ago
fastmail.com is a small company with a vastly superior UI to gmail.
592.
by xedrac 6y ago
While not fair to make sweeping generalizations, many of us engineers have had so many bad experiences with MBAs that it's hard to not lump them all together. Their need for control and culture shaping seem to directly harm engineerin
593.
by xedrac 6y ago
So just switching from (first v) to (nth v) offers a 5x speedup? I wonder why they opted for the lazy API for first.
594.
by xedrac 6y ago
Go improves on Java in several ways, perhaps most importantly, it is much nicer to deploy - no JVM. It's also a lot less verbose, compiles way faster and uses composition instead of inheritance. Having said that, I really hate Java,
595.
by xedrac 6y ago
I think Zig might be better suited for Linux kernel development than Rust, even though I really love Rust. My biggest issue with Zig is that heap allocated memory must be manually freed. There is no RAII, smart pointers etc...
596.
by xedrac 6y ago
I think Zig will make a great C replacement eventually. I pick it over C any day of the week. But I'd prefer Rust over either of them. Zig's management of heap-allocated memory is very similar to C, which makes it less than ide
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by xedrac 6y ago
As someone who typically votes conservative, this is the kind of ignorance that makes me seriously reconsider my stances. This would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and go a long way toward emulating China. No thank you! Tim
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by xedrac 6y ago
I love the idea of Guix. I also love Scheme and Free software. It seems Guix and I would be a match made in heaven. But then I read things like this: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-l
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by xedrac 6y ago
Time is subjectively more important to me than money right now because I have enough money to meet my needs and not enough free time to explore my interests. But I'd add that if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
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by xedrac 6y ago
I used Workman for a year back in 2013. I even submitted it for inclusion into the Xorg project (perhaps a little prematurely). https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56998 Overall the layout felt great and relieved

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