YcombRegBroken

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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Callbacks all the way down. I blame 42% of my recent gray hair on callbacks.
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Any time you are the subject of prejudice, it is a source of stress. While it isn't at the level of a classic civil rights struggle, it still exists. What prejudice? As the article says, if you look like the profile of a "bad tipp
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
I swear I'm not a grammar nazi, but I did just spend the past 10 minutes thinking about ideal user interfaces for zombies and vampires. Thanks for that...
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
You are 100% correct. If it was just scaling, you wouldn't have companies like Paypal switching to a "cool" open plan layout that the employees hate but the managers get a thrill from. Open plan = less productivity, higher st
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Ok, look, I understand that you spent a lot of time learning Haskell, and desperately want that time to not have been in vain. You have to back off the preaching though. The conversation you joined wasn't about Haskell. You barged in a
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
I'm a little confused here. You realize that Go is also statically typed, right? I'm not sure where any debate about dynamic languages started. The points you make about static vs dynamic are valid, just not relavent at the moment
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
I'm not a haskell expert (obviously), but the time it takes me to parse things like this is time I would rather spend reading 5-10x the number of lines and getting the meaning right away. let loeb x = fmap ($ loeb x) x in loeb [
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Haskell (and most of the other languages mentioned) is exceptionally clever. This, above all else, is it's downfall. For me, especially when tasked with building a high productivity development team, clever code is a ticking time bomb.
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Round 4 of these tests is what triggered my dive into Go this past month, and it has been a revelation. If you add in the concurrency capabilities, the language simplicity, and nice balance between overly terse syntax (Python one liners...)
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by YcombRegBroken 13y ago
Very interesting demo. I would suggest inverting the click to drag direction. Almost every other drag to pan interaction, from google maps to touch devices, uses the opposite mode. Very jarring and counterintuitive.