sixthloginorso

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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
There's barely any blogspam anymore on proggit, and if some manages to get through, it gets the customary tar-and-feathers treatment which even good submissions receive, only with more abundant, and hotter tar.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Maybe, but it's not something worth making into a political issue into itself, when the GNU project has actual political issues in mind, as close as they get to when speaking of a Software stack, like making sure that the management of
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Yeah, well, there are hammers of many brands, but few have claws on both ends, as the analogy for a certain controversial piece of technology went.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Why are people sweating small stuff like version control systems? How can you be a fanboy of a thing that keeps track of branches and patches. It's only incidentally related to Software development, you shouldn't feel as if a limb
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Web application development. I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Every time I see the word "hater" in response to criticism in the tech sector, I roll my eyes and find something else to read.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
So you say that multinational corporations shouldn't compete on ethics? I thought you neoliberals didn't chastise anyone with respect to their choices in commerce. Yes, this is systemic. Are you trying to convince me that the situ
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
The economy isn't magical either; jobs lost in one region because the factories closed and moved to another aren't necessarily going to be recouped by new job creation in a short span of time.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Except for the people they'll lay off as the plants move? It didn't work out wonderfully for the autoplant workers at Flint and Detroit; for some reason, the people didn't get the upgrade you speak of after the plants closed.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
If they assured me that the extra price goes to ensure a better standard of living and better working conditions for their third-world workers, then yes.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Care to expand? I still find that Java's are some of the best concurrency libraries you'll find, among imperative languages or otherwise.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Java's concurrency primitives and libraries are really overlooked in these discussions. Is the syntax too off-putting, or is it merely that Java is unfashionable?
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
This got petty real fast.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Dijkstra's argument was more about Haskell than Java... well, except the trash talk about Java's origins, you can't change those.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
> it's just hard to make them work for a variety of types simultaneously. That's sort of what you expect from any given implementation of a data structure and its related algorithms, though I imagine that some specialized imple
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Well, as we all know, Go does give you a way, sort of. You'd have to write basically a dynamic version using interface {}, and then write wrappers casting the values in and out, and possibly handing out the equality predicate. That suc
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
It has a state-of-the-art Virtual Machine, rich concurrency facilities (why does everyone forget this?), reasonable type safety, great tooling, and it operates within a diverse ecosystem of languages using the same infrastructure. But yeah,
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
The author said that he needed a generic set for different concrete types, so he'd have to write a bunch of these functions for all the combinations he needed. And he did. And it was a mess. And it was also slow. Edit: not that we can
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
So... if you need any data structure other than an array, a hash table or a channel, you should skip Go and find some other language? That's kind of limited.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Could be, given that book burning was always more of a symbolic act to intimidate the supporters of the ideas contained in the book rather than just the act of destroying information. What could the purpose of burning records of environment
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
This XWidgets project for Emacs has a rather unfortunate name, given that there is already a well-known GUI toolkit named wxWidgets.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Just not the same. Adding functionality to Eclipse is a "project". In Emacs, it's just some code and an eval-last-sexp away.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
I don't understand, what's wrong with package-list-packages? It has concise descriptions, MELPA is kept very well updated, and and installing plugins is a breeze, no elisp configuration is necessary for like 90% of the packages y
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
Meh. The only total languages are used for formal verification, you'll always have to settle for less to get Turing-completeness. > Of course it is strongly typed! All expressions have type Univ. Have you used PHP? You'll come
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
What's semantically insane about Lisp? I find it has very clean semantics; it is strongly typed, its scope is perfectly lexical (sans a explicit caveat), programs are commonly written in a way that preserves referential transparency (i
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
You are also indicating that the reference is not meant to be "reseated", i.e. that you aren't going to swap the object at the end of it for another, like you could do with a pointer.
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
With the typical reaction. "Thousands of sites use PHP just fine". "I don't care about the quality of libraries or the design of a language, and if you do, you're a snob". Trite. And I doubt I, and many here, w
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
> Its entirely possible to write a poorly organized bowl of spaghetti using Ruby if you leave Rails out of the picture. I would venture to say the same is true for any programming language. You can easily write one with Rails over just a
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
> how easy it integrates with HTML, JavaScript, CSS No more than any other language or product written in such. > Of course it's ugly, but who besides a bunch of snobs and people who actually can't use it really cares? Who s
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by sixthloginorso 13y ago
In a Universe where consistency, soundness, orthogonal API design, modularity and evidence that the developers gave some thought to their language is expected. I would like to believe that this is such a Universe. I mean, many of the endles

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