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by fjh 2y ago
I'm a bit baffled by this comment, so much so that I find it difficult to believe we've read the same article. I don't see any indication in the article that the author ever submitted any work to SciAm, let alone that he&#x27
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by fjh 3y ago
Yes, it's a curious coincidence that the people writing this report, surely in good faith, just happened to pick March 2020 as the point of comparison.
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by fjh 4y ago
> the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability. Luckily, that would still lead to affordable housing, because "just build housing" is what actually makes housing affordable.
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by fjh 5y ago
> That's obviously not the distinction between the parties here. The second one intends (or at least has a policy to) do something about it, but just not by raising the existing CO2 tax. Do they, though? I don't know how famili
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by fjh 5y ago
> As an example, 2 parties could both say No to a higher Co2-tax, but one of them does so because they claim climate change is a hoax, while the other one has a problem with it not being progressive enough, thus hitting poorer people har
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by fjh 5y ago
The grandparent didn't say nothing bad happened at the protest, they said that Trump's comments were taken out of context, which is completely true. Read the thing in context (here: https://www.politifact.com/artic
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by fjh 6y ago
Corporal punishment, hopefully.
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by fjh 6y ago
Facebook famously has dual-class shares that give Mark Zuckerberg a majority of the votes. The shareholders can't make him do anything he doesn't want to do.
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by fjh 8y ago
Why would languages without tail recursion optimisation perform worse when all languages use the naive implementation? It's not tail recursive, so it shouldn't make a difference, right?
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by fjh 8y ago
> Some particular names used in the examples were introduced by Python. For example the `enumerate` function or `zip`. I haven't seen those names used in programming languages older than Python, I know I might wrong. All the ML dial
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by fjh 9y ago
> People can't discriminate on properties that the person they are doing business with can't pick or change [...] but can discriminate on properties that the person in question did choose or could change Religious beliefs seem
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by fjh 9y ago
You're right, of course. I blame low blood sugar.
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by fjh 9y ago
> every 5th german is named lars That is completely untrue. Lars isn't exactly a rare name in Germany, but I'd be surprised if it was even one of the 20 most common first names. It's definitely nowhere near 1/5th of t
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by fjh 10y ago
match also lets you destructure values, which is useful when you're dealing with enums. It also doesn't have C's fall-through behaviour. Edit: match doesn't insist on a default clause, it enforces exhaustiveness. Which c
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by fjh 10y ago
House is basically a modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, with the same unpleasant personality. Which seems to contradict the idea that jerk protagonists are a new phenomenon.
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by fjh 10y ago
Don't worry about it. This was back in December, so there is no point digging it up now. I just needed to vent.
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by fjh 10y ago
When I applied, the interview process went like this: > 1st phone interview (screening) -> 2nd phone interview (technical) -> [crickets] I get it, we are all busy, but I think sending a "No, thanks" email to applicants wh
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by fjh 11y ago
"The fucking article's author"
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by fjh 11y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment of settling debates with data, you have to actually measure the right things. That statistic that says that only 2% of bugs would be prevented by static types? That's based on the assumption that everyt
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by fjh 11y ago
> Rust pulls some really nice trick, but cannot match Haskell. I'm not convinced that's true. Rust is even stricter than Haskell in many respects (first example that comes to mind is incomplete pattern matches, which is a compi
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by fjh 11y ago
I've used mio and I also have nothing but praise for it, but it is a fairly thin abstraction over epoll/kqueue. That's certainly useful, but it's not nearly as nice or easy to use as the green threads that haskell gives
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by fjh 11y ago
> I'm interested in writing some random things in Rust, but very much not interested in _re_writing Rust code in newer Rust. This probably means it's still too early for me, if the standard library is expected to expand soon af
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by fjh 12y ago
Germany doesn't have nuclear weapons.
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by fjh 12y ago
> Haskell could be wonderful. Never tried it. Will someday. Until then, I'd love some sort of competition where a Haskell programmer and myself are given a task, like "write a script to X," where X is some real-world relev
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by fjh 12y ago
> The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6 7.4, last time I checked.
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by fjh 12y ago
> I'd agree that the line in this case seems to be quite arbitrary but I'd respectfully suggest that it's not fair to say individuals whom eat meat having not given it much thought. It's fair to say that giving this
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by fjh 12y ago
transmute is marked as unsafe, so it can only be used in unsafe blocks or functions.
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by fjh 12y ago
iPhone notifications, as far as I know.
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by fjh 12y ago
> References, please? And not mathematical references; programming references. ML has had tuples several decades before Python existed.
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by fjh 12y ago
Many of the better European universities teach FP languages in their introductory courses. Off the top of my head, Oxford and Edinburgh use Haskell and Cambridge teaches Ocaml.

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