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by zzalpha 9y ago
Everyone I know uses property management companies. Everyone I know who uses property management companies would describe it like regular expressions. I.e. I became a landlord and now I have a problem in that I have to deal with tenants.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This feels just a bit like Sonos-sponsored content...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Clojure startup times are brutal, and simply not workable in the mobile environment where Android lives.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
But you could do the same thing at the same price point with a second-hand laptop, and end up with something significantly more powerful and capable.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
A Pi is a flexible, small form factor kit computer that has a very clear set of use cases in home automation, robotics, and other embedded applications, among many other things. The author couldn't come up with a use case for this cont
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You can’t give this to your kid that’s heading off to college — or even high school — and expect them to manage. It’s also not really a replacement for a low-end Chromebook, the desktop is sufficiently sluggish that I’d be wary of recommen
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Eh, here Fowler just falls into to the trap of the Perfect Solution fallacy. I repeat: there are no perfect measures of productivity. But there are imperfect measures that have some utility. The idea that we cannot measure at all beca
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No one can demonstrate productivity gains because productivity can't be measured. So then the OP shouldn't have made the claim. It ain't my job to prove it. :) That said, I fundamentally disagree with the idea that one can
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by zzalpha 9y ago
or rather, a language runtime that enforced some level of introspect-ability on everything And now we get to the real meat of it. It's not a REPL you want. It's reflection. It just so happens that the latter is frequently paired
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For (most) languages lacking a REPL, it's very similar. Instead of a REPL you write compiled unit tests and/or test programs to poke around at the API. For languages with a reasonably sophisticated IDE, use the IDE itself to jump
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I have. That's not even the beginnings of a useful reply. :) Give me a highlight of your normal day-to-day with the language. What, exactly, does the REPL offer you that provides significant productivity gains that can't be had a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The usefulness of a REPL depends a lot on the language/interpreter/vm. In Erlang and Elixir the REPL is more than nice to have. Being able to connect to a production node and peeking around what is happening can be very valuable.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yup, that's fair. BTW, I actually stand by your interpretation. I challenge anyone to demonstrate significant productivity gains (as measured by number of lines of tested, production code written) that can be attributed to the avail
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Think about it like this: On your list of languages, which of them would you say is most productive? Define productive. Are you measuring raw lines of code generated? Or are we measuring amount of production-ready code? My bet: with an ex
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Just because there are benefits, doesn't make it a deal-breaker.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If your language doesn't have a REPL, your language is less productive. Deal with it. Oh hardly. As someone who's developed software in Perl, Python, C, Java, C#, Haskell, and a few others besides, a REPL is the one thing I use
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Uh, this isn't dynamic dispatch (aka associating a function callsite to its implementation at runtime): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch It's just pattern matching and lamdbas. In another lan
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yikes, don't tell Dave Grohl, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and the countless other musicians who don't know how to read or write sheet music...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
it sounds absolutely staggering to me that a person would subject their home environment to that level of disruptive noise and advertisement spam. Well, congratulations! You're an outlier. :)
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That's an absolutely staggering amount of TV. Is it though? Assuming an adult with a full-time job gets home and has supper on the table by 6pm, we're talking about watching from 6-11pm. That doesn't sound that staggering
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Possible. It presumes, of course, that there aren't multiple ways that viewership is measured beyond just nielsen, and that in 50 years no one considered this possibility and developed methods to unskew the data. Possible? Yes. Likel
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by zzalpha 9y ago
TV is just another medium. The most expensive one, and marketers sometimes question it's cost effectiveness and shift investment to online video. And then shift it back again. The stories are legion of advertisers transitioning to on
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, this article at least provided data to back their assertions. Where's yours?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Measuring TV viewership has been going on for 50 years. They're not so dumb as to just measure the time the TV spends emitting photons. Today Neilsen uses multiple techniques. In addition to self-reporting via diaries, local people m
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I dunno... there's still a line one crosses when you stop treating you spouse as a person and start treating them as an adversary. The things I've heard people say about, or worse, to their spouses sometimes stretches my definitio
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So your argument is that because women can get out of a marriage easier due to lower cost, they will report lower satisfaction due to a grass-is-greener effect. Interesting! Sounds like a theory worth exploring, definitely.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Err, yours is an argument for men and women both having lower relationship satisfaction in marriage as compared to unmarried couples. But you argument doesn't explain why married men and women have different levels, and definitely do
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Please married folk please tell me this ain't the case... What, change? Of course change happens. I'm almost 40 and have been married for 13 years (and we've been together for almost 20). In the last ten years I've lea
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You can have different interpretation of the data. COST of a normal break up vs cost of a divorce. As I said in my other post, I could considered that. But the study diminishes the likelihood of that interpretation. Married men initiate
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I considered that. But that theory doesn't explain why, in addition to initiating divorce less frequently, married men also report higher levels of relationship satisfaction than women, while unmarried couples report the same levels of

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