polityagent

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by polityagent 6y ago
Can you expand on your point here?
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by polityagent 6y ago
I agree that a fair number of retail GameStop investors will be left holding the bag but this article is at best under reaearched and at worst deliberate spin. No mention of the large long positions held by investors like BlackRock. It also
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by polityagent 6y ago
with the current Tory government the chances of taxing those assets significantly is indeed low. with the assets out of the country the chances of taxing them at all is zero. As well as losing any possible indirect benefits from them being
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by polityagent 6y ago
if you use Firefox then reader mode is ideal for these situations
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by polityagent 6y ago
small note: Banks do not want to forget fraud, the rollback would be akin to a git revert. Even if the history presented to the customer makes the fraud vanish it won't be forgotten by the bank. With government requirements I'm as
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by polityagent 6y ago
Why is the fastmail app allowed?
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by polityagent 6y ago
Am I mistaken in thinking that the issue was scaling not supported by the box2d physics library and that they needed a custom workaround in their engine?
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by polityagent 6y ago
you learnt what everyone else was learning, so now you're competing with everyone else on their level. learning something more niche can be a signal that helps you stand out, even if it's not what you use at your next job. having
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by polityagent 6y ago
no regrets here (lead Dev at small company, 50ish employees) using for roughly 50% of the projects. 6 years ago we were fully Java, clojure allows us to mix the two without a business killing rewrite. I've never had any problems traini
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by polityagent 6y ago
I believe it leads to datomic, a database you can try out on Aws (datomic cloud) to see the implementation of all the things he's getting excited about.
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by polityagent 7y ago
ah I see, the greater risk of mitm attack due the script not being hosted by a package manager, fair enough.
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by polityagent 7y ago
looks like the author also provides package manager installation on further reading of the readme. I'm still not quite seeing the issue with the curl to bash, I'm trusting the author by running their tool, regardless of the instal
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by polityagent 7y ago
whats the issue here? (genuine question) besides having to trust the author? and what installation methods do you recommend for cli tools?
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by polityagent 7y ago
I don't think this implementation harms either Erlang or JVM clojure ecosystems. I also doubt the creator of this has as much interest in maturing JVM tooling as you so demand of them, if they did, they wouldn't have made this por
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by polityagent 7y ago
I believe jblow removed this in more recent versions.
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by polityagent 7y ago
Yes I agree
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by polityagent 7y ago
Unit tests for business logic and specifications for data shape can help to catch those typos as a side effect of the other benefits they bring. However typo catching will never be as solid as in a typed language, I've decided I'm
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by polityagent 7y ago
Safely and automatically renaming a function, local or global variable does not require a type system (see clojure and many other dynamic languages). Only renaming an instance field on a class needs it (because then all accesses on an objec
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by polityagent 7y ago
This is not true, the traffic for the previous github incident with the great cannon was co located[0] with the great firewall (which is indisputably under the control of the chinese government). [0] https://citizenlab.ca/20
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by polityagent 7y ago
could you explain the link? In this situation they were apparently silencing anti government voices, which sounds like the opposite.
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by polityagent 7y ago
In case you're unaware, your smarter compilers bullet point is called dependent typing. You can try it out in languages like Idris. Also the person who wrote "The little schemer" recently released "The little Typer"
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by polityagent 8y ago
It is a lisp, with visual similarities to clojure. Library access is irrelevant. The features that differentiate clojure are not there. - Immutable and persistent data structures as the default - Functional programming (no early returns or
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by polityagent 8y ago
This is not a dialect of clojure, please fix the title.
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by polityagent 8y ago
But how recently have we developed the capability to: - observe this thing at all - accurately measure it's velocity and acceleration - understand that it's velocity and acceleration were unusual?
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by polityagent 8y ago
Polymorphism doesn't require anything to do with OOP or objects themselves, see clojure multi methods as an extremely pure example that involves nothing even close to an object. Protocols or typeclasses are also ways to implement funct
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by polityagent 8y ago
a look at the related queries will show just how bad Google is at classifying searches for racket and scheme the languages as opposed to the words.
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by polityagent 8y ago
It's likely they're referring to the person's attractiveness as a potential candidate, not their physical appearance.
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by polityagent 8y ago
Or use a new name for the new interface whilst not breaking your old one. If your api is private then break it all you want, but if it's public and you want a large grateful user base then you should only grow. See rich hickeys talk &q
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by polityagent 8y ago
Can't say I mind too much about subsidies for solar panels and electric vehicles regardless of the motivation.
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by polityagent 8y ago
I hear that slave labour and not worrying about workplace injuries really reduced budgets for the original.

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