adenozine

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by adenozine 4y ago
When did I attack someone? The submitter is not the author.
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by adenozine 4y ago
Sorry, are you implying that filmmaking is somehow less universal than software engineering? Many jobs are more difficult than hacking on Angular bs all day, it’s not like most devs implicitly deserve the high pay they enjoy here in the Sta
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by adenozine 4y ago
You might like to read about the Writers Guild in Hollywood. Highly organized, high salaries far surpassing even that of tech, with graduates in the top percentiles coming into 500k/yr salaries fresh out of graduation, all union.
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by adenozine 4y ago
So what about streams? Functions? Closures? Call/cc structures? I understand your point if you are speaking in literal terms about just simple cons cells, but in practical Lisp/Scheme code, you don’t really rely on just the basics
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by adenozine 4y ago
I am learning it now, it’s pretty neat. I think the simplicity is a big appeal for me. I’ve tried Nim but it just seemed inconsistent, the case insensitivity is insane, and I think there’s a lot of minor but still odd syntax decisions that
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by adenozine 4y ago
Any examples to add, or you just want to leave it at pithy comment?
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by adenozine 4y ago
Filing this under “Raised My Blood Pressure…”
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by adenozine 4y ago
Hard agree! Time to strip some of the administrators and get some talent in the classrooms. I heard Florida was letting people in classrooms after just a few hours of supervision. If the education crisis isn’t addressed, this country will b
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by adenozine 4y ago
Ever looked at OpenFL? https://www.openfl.org/ Couple notable games haves used it. Haxe is a pretty mature ecosystem as well, from what I’ve heard. I spent my thirties working and unwinding with flash games with my kids, br
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by adenozine 4y ago
I’ve run some medium/large scale side projects with Linode in the past and like many others, I was absolutely blown away by the high quality and professional support I received. If they can keep that aspect of it together, I’m sure the
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by adenozine 4y ago
I'd rather gouge my eyes out than work with Rust code. Horrific.
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by adenozine 4y ago
Does Java still have a use for variables without final? Does Javascript still have a use for functions without async/await? This is just a repackaging of an age-old argument, imo. When they invented the screw, it did not preclude the n
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by adenozine 4y ago
So, like Erlang? What’s an example of a language that does this by default?
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by adenozine 4y ago
Alternatively, cap the price of tuition for childcare degrees? People get degrees for leverage in wage negotiation, and to further their career. Advising against is anti-worker, imo. The real crime is unattainable education.
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by adenozine 4y ago
Taking YC advice is sort of like getting cooking tips from customers coming out of a nice restaurant. They’ve eaten good food, but they may or may not know anything about starting a business. Paul Graham hasn’t started a company in several
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by adenozine 4y ago
I’ve heard this sentiment a lot from people who’ve read it. I think he wrote himself into a tight spot though, and I’m happy with the result. Part of me thinks the second act could’ve been broken down into maybe like 0-1000, 1000-5000, and
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by adenozine 4y ago
I liked Project Hail Mary (and Artemis, and The Martian) but I thought it was a little too heavy in the programmer narrative style. I won’t spoil anything in case someone reads this comment who hasn’t read it, but a large section involving
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by adenozine 4y ago
If you like it, you might enjoy a book called Seveneves. The first sentence involves the moon blowing up, and the rest of the book is about the consequences of that. Quite good, imo.
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by adenozine 4y ago
What is Sam Altman’s credibility again, besides wealth? Are we to assume he actually knows anything other than neuro-grift? I’m not buying it.
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by adenozine 4y ago
I’m the biggest python fan in the world, and you’re out of your mind if you think it can compete with Java for enterprise programming or even embedded programming for that matter. Not to mention the JVM underlying it, likely the second or t
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by adenozine 4y ago
In this thread: lies, fabrications, misinformation, disinformation, deception, skullduggery, wayward words, dirty deeds, and a case and a half of the finest bullshit you’ll ever read. They want you back in the office to make the management
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by adenozine 4y ago
It’s not quite arbitrarily. That’s an uncharitable definition. Python a) handles function arguments in a way that would make recursive functions awkward to use and b) cares about stacktraces being meaningful, so TCO would be a worse tradeof
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by adenozine 4y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I know plenty of folks with Masters making less than that, albeit outside of tech. I’m not sure you deserve the downvotes, I think the way you phrased it might make people think you’re out of touch.
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by adenozine 4y ago
It’s literally a product name drop and elevator pitch of user features. I mean, I can appreciate your trying to take a nuanced approach, but it is quite literally and quite clearly an advertisement.
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by adenozine 4y ago
I love Derek's writing. He's so casually eloquent, without being up his own ass like PG. I've learned a lot from reading what he's produced, and I can certainly attribute (in part) a few successful endeavors to being a &
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by adenozine 4y ago
This is very obviously an ad… at the top of the front page… Y’all crack me up sometimes.
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by adenozine 4y ago
Well in perl there’s a concept of sigils. my @num = (1, 2, 3); my $num = 25; say $num[1]; So that last line prints 2, which is obvious by looking at it, but can be difficult in more complex code when you’re overloading names by the way the
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by adenozine 4y ago
Have I got a link for you! https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages See you down the rabbit hole!
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by adenozine 4y ago
I’m not sure the word for it, but brackets only ever mean two things, to my knowledge. Hash or Block, in Ruby. I spent many years in perl, so I’m of the opinion visual indicators for datatypes are actually a good thing at the point of insta
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by adenozine 4y ago
Have you seen gleam.run? It’s pretty neat. I preferred the alpha syntax, which was ML-inspired, but it’s decent in its current incarnation. I’ve always though the beam was really nice for building programming languages, and clearly that is

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