shrugger

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by shrugger 10y ago
Then don't read it. In several years you've made only a couple negative, snarky comments on HN. If a guy writes an entire book and you don't want to read it because he made a spelling mistake, then don't.
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by shrugger 10y ago
That is exactly true! I have experience teaching kids Lua, and with the right metaphors and a little bit of backtracking and foundation-building, even complicated ideas like emulating classes and single inheritance can be understood and eve
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by shrugger 10y ago
You misunderstand how capitalism works. If you don't want these companies to succeed, don't give them money and don't give them data they can make money from. I don't use Facebook products because I don't want to gi
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by shrugger 10y ago
Sounds like you want better hardware. Which is what we ALL want.
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by shrugger 10y ago
I stopped at Vice.com
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by shrugger 10y ago
I understand, but your opinion doesn't change the facts. Scala.js is more than mature, with some huge projects already built in it. I'd not heard of erlangonxen, but it would take a lot of convincing to re-write something in Erlan
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by shrugger 10y ago
You've repeatedly censored dozens of people and fostered an unwelcome space for people who are smarter than you and people with different opinions than yours. Please stop doing that.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Note the lack of technical claims that one is superior to the other, thanks for pigeonholing what I was getting at.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Or JS with Scala.js Or literally anything with Scala Native, which is being sponsored and supported by EPFL directly. So yeah, no.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Relative to LLVM, I mean. I don't think there are any huge red flags with regards to BEAM.
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by shrugger 10y ago
I switched from Ruby to Scala, and I have had an absolute blast. Elixir is sort of chained to BEAM, which doesn't appear to have as bright a future as the JVM or LLVM does, so Scala seemed like a safer bet. Reading about Elixir is cool
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by shrugger 10y ago
missed a couple Govt classes? The existence of central banks are opposed by people who want to restrict third-party control of their money, not let any loser who walks by have a say (like DAO) Ethereum is a bad idea and people are too emb
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by shrugger 10y ago
And you say you don't like Ayn Rand! Terse is just another word for unimaginative, when it comes to prose. I think you might be blurring the lines between writing something in a socratic dialogue versus writing technical documentation.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Oh yeah, because those are a dime a dozen and available almost everywhere! /s
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by shrugger 10y ago
Reasonability. In an age where billion dollar companies are gutted by 16yo hackers on a monthly basis, it's worth the effort to build strong, secure systems that can be formally reasoned about.
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by shrugger 10y ago
I am so freaking excited about Scala Native. I haven't been so genuinely excited and enthusiastic about something for such a long time, but Scala Native is so awesome. I feel like turning Scala into a cross-platform language is the bes
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by shrugger 10y ago
Ironic how this will be flagged to shit and seen by only a few.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah, how dare someone think anything differently than exactly what you think?!?!?! /s
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by shrugger 10y ago
There is no argument. What the department is or is not doing is not up for argument. Objective reality doesn't change just because the dept used to have a different name, that's stupid. I work with dozens of peaceful, bright peo
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah what do I know anyways? I just work there, I'm sure your google search lends you more clarity as to what they're doing than my day-after-day exposure. Cool.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Are you aware of the primary purpose of the Department of DEFENSE?
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah, free speech only for people that you agree with. Gotcha.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Well, Scala was originally designed to complement a platform that encourages mutable data structures. When Scala was first getting started, Java didn't have anonymous functions yet, and it was a different time. Currently, Scala-Native
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by shrugger 10y ago
Scala.js is a lot of fun, have you considered using it? It's quite further along than Elm at this point.
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by shrugger 10y ago
There's no supporting details? "C++ programmers find it difficult." Says who? I doubt someone who slogged through enough pain to learn C++ would be fazed by the weird parts of Rust. The Rust language is not at all a significa
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by shrugger 10y ago
It doesn't matter to them. You either say exactly what they want to hear or you're wrong. Don't waste your time.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Those are the main reasons I go there so often. It's a certain caliber of customer that seems to go there, and I really enjoy the atmosphere and the certainty that there won't be any weirdos or spiky-haired freaks while I'm t
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah but after sixty years of C, why should we trust an origanization like Mozilla? They've been thoroughly unwilling to come up with any sort of ANSI standard or anything, despite Rust being a reasonably mature language. Google sought
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by shrugger 10y ago
Which is what is supposed to be happening anyways. That's literally what machine learning is about.
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by shrugger 10y ago
What does this mean? There is almost no detail in this other than "Wow Elm is great and the compiler gives persistent, detailed messages" which I think most people interested in Elm already knew.

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