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by tomlin 2y ago
You don't understand the core offering.
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by tomlin 3y ago
They are saying it's made in rust, so they are probably trying to counter concerns.
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by tomlin 3y ago
I'm a Nintendo die hard fan boy, I don't care about speed. I learned how to "code" in ColdFusion. I am all for the underdog POV. We're talking about performance because of the context, which is – there aren't t
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by tomlin 3y ago
It doesn't answer the question of why you would choose Ruby. Honestly, you all sound like you got a Sega Genesis for Christmas, while everyone else got a SNES. You can tell other kids on the playground that Genesis has better graphics,
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by tomlin 3y ago
Most of your comment is about what you think I think, and not a lot about metrics, data or examples where Ruby performs beyond my interpretation. I think that says a lot right there.
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by tomlin 3y ago
Python is somewhat pleasure. Ruby might as well be sandscript as far as I'm concerned. The use of pipes is gross, uncoordinated and lacking direction.
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by tomlin 3y ago
You're literally the exact person I'm talking about. No serious application developer who's interested in speed is working in Ruby. This isn't my opinion. I don't care personally, it's just a fact if you care a
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by tomlin 3y ago
I'm so glad that you said this and weren't downvoted into the ground. Honestly, Ruby needs to die. It performs like a go cart in a Formula 1 race. I'm actually just exhausted watching smart people tell me this is a language a
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Today's Large Language Models Are Essentially BS Machines(quandyfactory.com)
57 points by tomlin 3y ago|46 comments
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by tomlin 3y ago
But the instrument for measuring doesn’t change. That’s what makes it dependable, predictable and something to measure against. You can’t measure against a moving target.
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by tomlin 3y ago
Does a tape measure change?
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by tomlin 3y ago
Can IQ be considered a scientific measurement, when a coffee or a bad sleep can affect the outcome? What do people here think?
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What Does IQ Measure? [video](youtube.com)
6 points by tomlin 3y ago|18 comments
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by tomlin 3y ago
The word used was "open", and you wouldn't be able to force a company to open itself to intellectual theft at the hands of a foreign government. You're reducing a complex legal/rights policy into "wats the prob
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by tomlin 3y ago
This is a reddit, not HN.
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by tomlin 3y ago
How would a Canadian government force an American company to be more open?
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by tomlin 3y ago
Undeniable?
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by tomlin 3y ago
Facebook, Instagram, etc. are not "open", so the argument doesn't work.
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by tomlin 3y ago
On the other hand, less people arguing over news articles may be what the world needs.
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by tomlin 4y ago
Anyone else ask themselves why the signup process requires a phone number, despite signing up with a third party auth provider that already had my phone number? There is no reason to collect this data.
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by tomlin 4y ago
Today a website doesn’t even load without JavaScript. So, there’s that.
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by tomlin 4y ago
I don’t know Russian. Your point doesn’t line up with the topic at all. I know Ruby. I still think it’s unreadable. Can you try next time? I feel incredibly sorry for the poor kids you teach. They will be suffering aftereffects for the
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by tomlin 4y ago
You might as well have leaned on the keyboard, it wouldn’t look much different. This is not readable code.
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by tomlin 4y ago
Parentheses as pipes is what you do when you’ve backed yourself into a corner. Ruby has decided (for some reason?) to use two ways to declare. Function(param, param) and { |param, param| } why? What is a good reason for this? It would be an
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by tomlin 4y ago
Ruby maps are so ugly. .map { |key_value| key_value.partition('=')[-1] } Reading this literally makes me sick to my stomach. Language design is much more important than language popularity, although it will be popularity
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Researchers discover bacteria-killing toxin, could lead to antibiotic innovation(thespec.com)
3 points by tomlin 4y ago|0 comments
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by tomlin 4y ago
> well, that's a deeper problem and they should be fired, not babysat. How that mentality works out in the real world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
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by tomlin 4y ago
Hey, please don't take my comment as an attack. It's a lot of hard work, but I have to give my perspective - which also involves a lot of hard work in that I have been pushing marketers back for years, for everything from unnecess
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by tomlin 4y ago
If anything, this is a marketing trojan horse. I think we should do more pushing back and less trying to idolize this behaviour. There was a time where developers made things for themselves or other people, not just marketers. As a develope
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by tomlin 4y ago
> "where you can get a whole bunch of likes by saying “microservices bad amirite?!” Okay.

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