ccdan

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by ccdan 5y ago
When I say "freedom" I'm really referring to the most literal sense of the word: lack of restrictions! Not other philosophical meanings(like being provided with the means to do one thing or another) We can all agree that we n
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by ccdan 5y ago
"whataboutism" is a propaganda term meant to excuse double standards and hypocrisy. It doesn't work.
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by ccdan 5y ago
Well, in the case the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are genocide! The all the Americans(still alive) and American state entities responsible for it must be held accountable
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by ccdan 5y ago
No, that's far from anything related to genocide and Putin is actually right: Russians and Ukrainians(and Belarussians) have the same common root in the Kievan Rus. The idea of Ukraine didn't even exit until about 1700s and the co
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by ccdan 5y ago
There's no free world. There are just different degrees of totalitarianism. The highest level of totalitarianism is in the country with the highest number of criminal laws - that by definition reduce freedom, and the highest percentage
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by ccdan 7y ago
Oh, I thought they'd donate half their incomes for some noble cause like buying electric cars for the poor, buying carbon credits, or something like that...
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by ccdan 13y ago
Pointless study. Bad methodology, bad logic (correlation = causation) wrong or irrelevant conclusions.
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by ccdan 13y ago
Repetitions are often a result of changing requirements things that can't (normally) be automated. If you think that enterprises are doing it wrong and you know more than them, you could become rich by showing them the right way of doing th
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by ccdan 13y ago
Yeah, but there are large software systems with a lot of boring, repetitive stuff that is being done.
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by ccdan 13y ago
>>Why didn't they hire 2-3 (more expensive) experts instead of 10 juniors? << For the same reason they don't hire 2-3 architects instead of one architect and 10 workers to build a small house. Actually hiring solely "expert
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by ccdan 13y ago
How about the trillions they stole from ordinary citizens?
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by ccdan 13y ago
>>Important to who? I use tools written in functional languages every single day.<< To the market. There are all kind of servers from web servers to database servers to other kinds of servers. Almost none are made using func
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by ccdan 13y ago
There's plenty of concurrency and parallelism out there but there's not a single piece of important software that is written in a functional language. Many people claim many things but when it comes to empirical evidence. it turns out that
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by ccdan 13y ago
LOL... that's all you had to reply? Typical of FP advocates..
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by ccdan 13y ago
Or, maybe the language is very poorly designed. There are many programming languages. From Basic to LISP to C to Java to Haskell to ... Brainfuck. Some of them are used in the software industry and some are not. There are many claims about
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by ccdan 13y ago
A programming language can be created such that it resembles a natural language but it also avoids the ambiguities of that natural language. Anyway, the main idea is that FP languages are way too cryptic and ambiguous, they use too many sym
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by ccdan 13y ago
>>No. The math notation that is used across all branches of mathematics is consistent and unambiguous (the notation of formal logic, naive set theory, etc). << Nonsense. Actually, ambiguity starts with basic arithmetic. Tak
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by ccdan 13y ago
Way too much fuss about something most of the world can't use (the ITV player)and don't care about...
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by ccdan 13y ago
Good luck porting a professional grade tool like Eclipse. :) But I'm afraid we'd have to wait until tablets have the same specs as current average laptops. Although I guess stuff like HTML and Javascript could be done on current tables.
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by ccdan 13y ago
Bases and military relationships = wars? LOL! That site is ridiculous.
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by ccdan 13y ago
I don't know who it was created for, but I know lots of FP advocates (Haskellers included) whining that FP languages aren't used (almost at all) in the software industry.
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by ccdan 13y ago
Not much of a surprise. There's way, way too much not only useless research but totally wrong research (bad data, close to zero use of the scientific method, reliance on fallacies like correlation = causation and so on) Rigor in science mus
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by ccdan 13y ago
Haskell can offer absolutely nothing Java can offer, while Haskell can't offer even 0.001% of what Java offers. You see, there's a very, very good reason why you won't see any (even remotely) serious and useful software made in Haskell and
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by ccdan 13y ago
Huge mistake on their part, typical of math people. High level programming languages have to be as close as possible to human languages (English) not to some obscure mathematical concepts and notation that most people don't care about. Act
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by ccdan 14y ago
Another stupid scare... most idiots will blame the entire set of Java products, even though applets are just a very minor feat, almost a deprecated one... and the real threat is greatly exaggerated... there was never a major security incide
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by ccdan 14y ago
"It's true. But you know what computers are first and foremost? They're deterministic." That's like saying that computers have mass and are made of matter. "And you know what's one the biggest problem programmers do face in the Real-Worl
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by ccdan 14y ago
Nonsense... I have never heard of anyone being attacked in any way through java... it's just "security" firms that come up with all kinds of obscure things and try to scare people for pretty much nothing...
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by ccdan 14y ago
Where is functional "good?" Other than in abstract math or FP advocates' heads? :D If it had been any good, it would have been used on a pretty large scale... we live in a pretty large world and someone would have figured it out... and then
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by ccdan 14y ago
"- Most blue collar developers don't understand FP concepts" HAHAHA! The vast majority of FP advocates are either unemployed or work as math teachers. Like it or hate it, FP is absolutely nothing more than a pseudo-programming paradigm (la