smosher

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by smosher 13y ago
The point was simply that what you wrote is how a very bad argument starts. I took care to point out I wasn't accusing you of that but you have reacted defensively anyway. It's my fault for trying to engage an HN-er in a form of d
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by smosher 13y ago
What's your point?
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by smosher 13y ago
> I live ok without pattern matching and I build compilers/runtimes for a living; is that blub conceit? No, I would have quoted it the first time if it was. But if you want to repeat that again you will certainly sound conceited.
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by smosher 13y ago
The important bit is: As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're miss
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by smosher 13y ago
I couldn't help but notice this phrase: [X] is nice but [Y] will get you most of the way and [dealing with the difference] is simple. reads a lot like the Blub conceit. I'm not accusing you of that, but I do disagree that OO can
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by smosher 13y ago
> Lets pick one as a community and stick with it. And when our assumptions turn out to be wrong, should we continue working on it even though we know it can never work? The problem is every new term is forged with assumptions because the
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by smosher 13y ago
He did a better job of aping doge than you did, and not everyone needs to love it.
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by smosher 13y ago
People missed the joke. Have an upvote.
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by smosher 13y ago
I don't think so. With their track record it would take a devout optimist not to think "oh, Mail is bugging out again." At least that's my impression from maintaining dozens of servers with many thousands of customers ru
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by smosher 13y ago
Here's one comparing ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-r... (there's also a “Round 2” link at the bottom.)
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by smosher 13y ago
I wasn't. I was making the point that it's important to realize that it is a question of freedom even if you don't regard it as one that should be had. There are those who don't believe Snowden is fighting for justified
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by smosher 13y ago
> Should we also have the freedom to hire a contract killer then? It sounds an awful lot like you're trying to pick an argument that isn't on the table. I haven't endorsed any freedoms in particular, why are you asking me
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by smosher 13y ago
I don't think so, not as a discussion site participant. None of the sites I use allow it. But the real point is people don't do it that often even when they can. Twitter is rarely a direct source of content. From what I've se
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by smosher 13y ago
I don't buy the logic. If embedding is such a big deal then why does nearly every discussion forum allow you to embed youtube videos but not tweets? It's got nothing to do with who the community thinks could make ad money on it, i
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by smosher 13y ago
I disagree. Many people in this world lack the freedom to purchase cocaine. Whether they should have the freedom is up for debate. Whether it's a question of freedom is not.
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by smosher 13y ago
> they pretty clearly benefit from the access Speaking of access , make sure you have the SonyⓇ RootKit™ Updater installed.
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by smosher 13y ago
How do you think Sony and the EFF will respond?
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by smosher 13y ago
Keep going, you're about to discover the holographic principle for yourself.
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by smosher 13y ago
Well that's the most depressing thing I've heard all year.
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by smosher 13y ago
That's my understanding as well, but the salient point is MAOIs work indirectly by increasing the effectiveness of some neurotransmitters—including dopamine, which nicotine increases the level of.
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by smosher 13y ago
Right. I suppose I took it for granted that brains are big ol' drug factories and assumed everyone was on the same page. The point is the MAOI isn't a used as neurotransmitter, but to affect the metabolism of monoamine transmitter
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by smosher 13y ago
I've never heard someone talk about MAOIs in isolation before. You do realize the point of these is to affect other drugs right?
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by smosher 13y ago
Oh, John McAffee, not the company.
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by smosher 13y ago
You're right, and my point wasn't to attack his character but to explain the nonsense coming out of his mouth. There is a clear and simple explanation, consistent with his history, that is (perhaps unfortunately) not flattering. H
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by smosher 13y ago
I don't think it takes a C++ expert to point out that the more plausible explanation is simply that Rob Pike is a narcissist. This is the same guy who said you don't need to know what I know (re: endianness) because you will n
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by smosher 13y ago
Nah, bloat is any feature I'm not using ever; like java, or gnome-tracker. e: these are just two things that were installed on my system despite not having software that needed them.
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by smosher 13y ago
Have you been to tech crunch lately?
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by smosher 13y ago
> Do companies ever release linguistic guidelines? Yes, sometimes, and people ignore them. So: rarely. And they shouldn't. New language isn't prescribed with any effectiveness. And what you were taught in school is based on ana
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by smosher 13y ago
I wonder whether you're responding to the the journalist or the person they're quoting. If you read the rest of the article, that idea does become more compelling since the creature loses those gears at its final stage in life.
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by smosher 13y ago
They didn't break epoll, epoll was straight-up broken. They just managed to supply enough pressure to reliably trigger the bug, which is even more impressive if you think about it.

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