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by _yawn 7y ago
Email is a cesspool, this is a genius idea.
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by _yawn 7y ago
People in Quebec are actively hostile to other languages in general, mostly for historical reasons. Probably not the best place to get started haha
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by _yawn 8y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is a shallow dismissal or if you are proving your own point by being the most upvoted comment.
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by _yawn 8y ago
I feel like a lot of users on HN are producers rather than users of software, and haven't used node-based systems like in blender or nuke. They are extremely productive, and end up being very similar to functional programming while bei
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by _yawn 8y ago
What we really need isn't more syntax, it's core features like threads, operator overloading, a large std library, some real form of serialization (JSON doesn't come close to counting), etc.
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by _yawn 8y ago
> They may not even be capable of it. Come on now...
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by _yawn 8y ago
Like all "theories" of art and music this model is no good as it isn't predictive. There are plenty of good art with brightly saturated color. Deciding spontaneously that muted colors are the one true way and then that prefer
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by _yawn 8y ago
That's very true, videos that record powerpoints are also often hard to read.
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by _yawn 8y ago
That's an interesting study. I feel like maybe engagement is the wrong metric, much how like A/B testing gives a good local result but a poor global result. I finished a dozen or so of the traditional courses but can't be bot
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by _yawn 8y ago
I'm going to go against the grain here but just putting cameras in classrooms and dumping that on Youtube works just fine. The content on MIT opencourseware feels a lot nicer than things like Coursera or others even if it's more t
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by _yawn 8y ago
It's because designers are just clueless and don't know how things are implemented. The opposite is also true: the parent is practically an alien here for liking design yet he doesn't even see the point in a photoshop over a
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by _yawn 8y ago
What problems do you run into? I'm familiar with lisp's macro system but didn't get to look into hygienic macros in other language, and was wondering if they are equivalent.
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by _yawn 8y ago
Why not just include interactive exercices/puzzles into the html documents? I took a db course not to long ago and would have loved it to be more "hands on".
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by _yawn 8y ago
This is really nice and looks great. The diagram is super useful and I could see myself using this for the rough planning of an app. That being said, I feel like like the use cases are super limited unless you flesh it out some more. There
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by _yawn 8y ago
:)) I love macros so much
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by _yawn 8y ago
I mostly miss them for constructing objects with default values, yes. The alternative is the builder pattern, which involves a lot of boilerplate.
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by _yawn 8y ago
Skepticism towards keyword arguments is something I have trouble understanding. Is it because of some performance consideration? Thanks for your answer!
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by _yawn 8y ago
This is unrelated, but do you know if Rust's omission of exceptions is a consequence of the borrow checker, or an explicit design choice? I get that most people come to Rust from C++, but as someone coming from a higher level down to R
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by _yawn 8y ago
Subjective != arbitrary.
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by _yawn 8y ago
You can have lots of expressivity without having that many features. But go has neither, and things like no operator overloading just plain sucks when dealing with vectors, for example.
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by _yawn 8y ago
Do you mean winner in terms of popularity or in terms of quality? In terms of popularity, it's pretty clear we are in for at least a decade of C++ & Javascript.
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by _yawn 9y ago
Content and presentation both change, and together. That's how it's always been for every type of media. How much space you have on the newspaper determines what your article's title is, but what the title is also determines
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by _yawn 9y ago
The whole point of abstract data types is to separate implementation from interface in order to allow a change in representation. The point is to allow programming things like the AI algorithm without caring at all about if the board is rep