gintery

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by gintery 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow. What I meant is that a benchmark over a specific task is not really informative without a comparison of why it is slower in some languages compare to other.
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by gintery 6y ago
I see. That makes more sense. That being said, you are still framing life as a competition/game which I'm not sure I see the point in. For what it's worth, I view religion mostly as a mechanism for encouraging behavior which
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by gintery 6y ago
This is sort of interesting but isn't informative without any idea as to why some languages are slower. What is the difference between the LLVM-IR/assembly produced by C and the one produced by Crystal/Nim/Julia?
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by gintery 6y ago
Your whole post is extremely American. Why do you want to be #1 compared to anyone, let alone compared to God? You are no longer religious because your self-centric world-view is incompatible with believing anyone can be better than you, wh
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by gintery 6y ago
If you have to assign to a const variable during a small refactor, then maybe it shouldn't have been const in the first place? I'm struggling to imagine examples where this is a real problem
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by gintery 6y ago
Is the code really that complex? Overly verbose, maybe, but its really not that hard to follow even for someone who doesn't know much about C++ templates.
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by gintery 6y ago
Most people hate const at first (myself included) but once you get used to it, it really does reduces mental load. Not having to glance around is precisely the point, its not a big thing but it does help.
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by gintery 6y ago
Your law is hilarious. I tend to check the comments before reading a post: if they say the idea is terrible, I know I should read it.
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by gintery 6y ago
Now my compulsive snoozing can continue even during daytime :)
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by gintery 6y ago
My guess would be that there's a feedback effect, where posters learn to only post comments which are likely to get upvotes. The net effect is that shared opinions converge. Ideally a comment section would be a sample of the whole dist
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by gintery 6y ago
I mostly agree, but we really have no way of telling if its meaningless or not.
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by gintery 6y ago
This site suffers from extreme group-think. Comments are essentially predictable, as anyone who disagrees with the public opinion will either refrain from posting or not get upvotes anyway. This is what you get from sorting content by vote
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by gintery 6y ago
This would be really good for scientific articles. They are usually filled with (important but noisy) details that make skimming them for the important ideas difficult.
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by gintery 7y ago
I went through elementary school in Inuktitut and don't remember anything about an elaborate vocabulary for snow. Learning stuff for Haskell made it much easier to learn similar concepts in Rust, which is a pretty pragmatic language. S
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by gintery 7y ago
Separating HTML from CSS has no basis, they are both concerned with the visual organisation of information. I feel that the real problem is not with CSS, but with how HTML forces you to jointly specify the semantic structure of data with i