wonderzombie

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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Not to split hairs, but that's really not how I'd characterize that tweet. He only says he's done being mad about it.
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Most likely it would've been a larger fraction at almost any point in the last 60 years. Whether you like it or not, you derive innumerable tangible benefits from living in American society, in no small part because generations before
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
This summary of social equality & justice is not something anyone should take seriously. It is a very one-sided, reductive description of the issue. If nothing else, this comment is a good example of the siege mentality on display in fo
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
It's the idea that meritocracy in America is a sham, and a self-congratulatory idea in any case. It starts from the premise that if you have succeeded, you deserve to have succeeded without taking into account circumstances that led to
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
I'm torn as to whether I agree. If there's one thing I appreciate about modern games -- games within the last 10 or so years -- is that they respect my time. There's a lot we could unpack here, so I'll just be brief. Ish
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Slightly off-topic: is this the first time Apple has hosted a blog? I realize it's developer.apple.com rather than apple.com, but still.
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
You're mostly right re: knowledge transfer, although it's really as simple as you imply. First, Vim emulation widgets vary a great deal in quality, supporting different, disjoint subsets of Vim functionality. Just as an example, i
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
I guess bloat is subjective. Your setup looks nice and I'm glad you found something that works for you. But on the flip side, it "looks" bloated to me, too— any reasonably useful Vim setup will have at least a dozen or so plu
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
If share a cookie with a friend, you're that person who demands I share with everyone within earshot, aren't you? Just take it for what it is. It's one act of kindness. Buying a sandwich for a homeless person doesn't mea
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
The obvious rejoinder, of course, is: who was president when the crash happened in the first place? And I disagree with your characterization that it hasn't helped, either-- look at how many jobs have been added since the administratio
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
I notice you bring up the exact arguments that the piece addresses explicitly, yet you do not acknowledge this one way or another. But the meta-reason is: if someone thinks they can get away with it, why wouldn't they do it? With that
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
I think you're suggesting a false dichotomy. Of course a complex language can be used to write simple code and vice versa. Ultimately every program is going to increase in complexity-- that quote about failure vs legacy nightmare appli
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
This also reminds me of the quote from Heinlein: Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untrave
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
If you discount evidence ... That's reductive. Not everyone has the bandwidth to sort through every iota of evidence. And the fact is that there's no shortage of people who have little in arguing in good faith. So people resort
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Seconded. I started learning Mandarin some years ago. The written language remained opaque for a very long time since you need to learn a rather long list of hanzi before you can read anything interesting. And there's little guarantee
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
My experience was similar, that at least the basics of the language are easy. The hard part is if you want to learn to read and write-- it's a ton of memorization. It doesn't get any easier, either. Some characters have a radical
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Yes. In Mandarin, there's a much smaller set of sounds than in English. There are many, many words which sound exactly the same -- same pronunciation, same tone, different hanzi -- before you even get into the issue of same pronunciati
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
That's funny. This is one of the reason why I don't care much for Common Lisp. Hashtables in particular are common as mud in programming, but I have to work with a clunky interface specific to each abstraction. Ironically this put
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
The difference is that you end up with (e.g.) https://cs50.harvard.edu/resources/cppreference.com/operator... versus the AST being integral to the language itself.
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
FWIW, you're learning two major paradigms at once: the immutable/functional paradigm and a Lisp, and Clojure itself has very strong opinions about the former. You'll get a very different feel from, say, Racket. Is there som
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
I don't think I've heard anyone argue that homiconicity makes Lisp easier to learn. I would characterize that as an advanced concept— it only becomes relevant once you start learning about macros. As far as Lisp's syntax itse
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I agree that the consequences should be modulated. I've said elsewhere that death threats are unacceptable, but this is an unsolved problem in society at large. It's not unique to Eich's
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
In fact, "public" is essential to the role of a CEO. It's hard for me to understand how you don't see the difference, regardless of how some people have tried to appropriate it. As it stands now, having a job is not a hu
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Is he afraid for his house and family? Mind you, I believe death threats in any situation are unwarranted and despicable. This is not the least bit unique to Eich's situation. It's a much larger problem we as a society have yet
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Oppression? Oppression implies he was denied a right. Being a CEO of a corporation is not a right, especially considering that a CEO is a very public figure. Now, if he got blackballed across the industry, I'd be there with you. But th
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Your analogy ignores the facts. Eich didn't make a mistake 4 yrs ago-- he still holds the same views as evidenced by his interviews! Eich had multiple opportunities to indicate whether his views had changed. He defended his views, and
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
It's silly to call this bullying. Yes, people shouldn't send death threats-- nobody should receive them regardless, and I think this is a larger problem with the Internet in general. But a collective of people exercising their fre
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Un-PC is a nice way to gloss over actively denying a group of people their human rights on a half-assed reading of a religious text. And who the heck are you to make such a blanket statement about who's productive and who isn't? I
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
they are entitled not to lose their jobs or be beaten etc over them These things are not at all the same. And in this case, we're talking about a CEO, the public face of a company, not an otherwise private citizen. For, those that b
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by wonderzombie 12y ago
Whose free speech was violated? Free speech doesn't mean the freedom from consequences or criticism. It means the exact opposite! He's free to speak as he likes and donate as he likes, and everyone else is free to exercise their

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