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by xedrac 9y ago
Is it just to alienate the majority to encourage the minority? A lot of companies promoting "diversity" certainly think so.
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by xedrac 9y ago
And what if you buy a Steam game, play it to completion, and decide you didn't like it very much? What if you only played half way through? At what point does it become unreturnable? I tend to agree with you, but it just seems like S
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by xedrac 9y ago
Racket is one of my favorite languages for personal projects. Thank you Matthew Flatt for your dedication and work on this wonderful language!
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by xedrac 9y ago
I recently bought a Roku, since it was one of the few devices that had an app for Twitch.tv. Little did I know, Amazon recently bought Twitch and yanked their app from the Roku channel list. They are clearly trying to redirect people to t
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by xedrac 9y ago
Seems to fit. "Unable to secure the smothered mate, she had to settle for the backrank mate."
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by xedrac 9y ago
If I'm being honest, this would bother me at some level. Certainly not enough to pass up the opportunity, but somehow I would feel less of a man. I'm sure I would get over it quickly enough, or maybe use it as motivation to beco
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by xedrac 9y ago
I loved this book! I've always enjoyed retro text-based games and this was a fun way for me start learning a more functional style of programming (and Lisp). It was a nice contrast to my daily C++ work.
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by xedrac 9y ago
Pony looks amazing. This is the first time I've heard of it, but I'm really excited to dive in. I'm only half way through the tutorial and there's already a lot to love. It feels like a cross between Python, Erlang, R
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by xedrac 9y ago
Haskell definitely allows imperative programming, it's just not particularly good at it.
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by xedrac 9y ago
I agree. I recently read the book, "A Mind for Numbers" which also agrees with you. Math is abstract and people struggle with that (often giving up), but I don't believe it is inherently more difficult than other complex th
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by xedrac 9y ago
It uses ninja as a backend which has a no-op build time of < 1 second. This means that incremental builds, especially in large codebases are much faster than make. It will also use ccache automatically if its available. It does some n
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by xedrac 9y ago
I strongly disagree with the prioritization of compile time and run time performance over maintainability. I can't count the number of times this has bitten me because of some premature optimization someone chose to write. Most of th
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by xedrac 10y ago
I think you hit on one of the biggest risks in my opinion. Right now there is a strong motive to educate yourself, because it will likely result in a more comfortable future. Having a highly educated population is hugely beneficial. I su
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by xedrac 10y ago
I love it when new languages come out like this. I'm always interested to see what new ideas they bring, and what justifications they have for creating a new language. I'm not really one to chase the new and shiny, but I have a
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by xedrac 10y ago
Looks great so far. Other than scrolling support, the one thing I miss the most is the use of the up arrow to scroll through history. Ctrl+R is great, but sometimes I just want to scroll through my most recent commands.
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by xedrac 10y ago
I personally think Git's staging concept is one of its best features. Yes it is different and increases the learning curve somewhat, but it also provides a lot of flexibility in what you commit. For anyone that thinks Git is too comp
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by xedrac 10y ago
Of all the lisps, Racket appeals to me the most. It lacks the many warts that common lisp has, and has a very clean feel to it. I had tremendous fun solving problems on Project Euler and Rosetta Code using Racket. I highly recommend it fo