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Like painting or architecture, woodworking have a finished state, after that, you just ship it and not worry about it again. whereas in software, everything is so malleable that a rewrite is often going to happen again and again.
Re:Pythonicity: Composition vs. Inheritance on Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:47AM (#38411512)
or just go with functions + unions/dataclasses
The empty set is vacuously true for any properties with elements.
Re:Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux on Saturday April 08, 2023 @06:48AM (#35492145)
I wonder why Go doesn't have algebaric data types, it could solve a lot of issues, and make code a lot easier to write.
Re:A CPU Is a Compiler on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:40AM (#35273179)
and a interpreter
> Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength
Re:Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:36AM (#33942332)
If anything, there have to be people in the loop to check balances (write good prompts to generate code and fix them) and take responsibilities for downtime.
Re:The Chinese Civil Examinations on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:18AM (#33894573)
One of the reasons that China hadn't have a strong private school of thoughts.
Re:When is a slice of any not a slice of any? on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:54AM (#33261417)
nonmeasurable sets
Re:Against Algebra on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:06PM (#33235533)
For people who think in pictures, actually you can do a lot of algebra by diagrams [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_diagram

Re:Analyzing Indie Hacker Products with Verified Revenue on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:56AM (#32151493)
It's not a killing definitely a living though..
One of the most important links of the chain to keep sensitive data safe is to collect less but the motivation behind this is rather small, private or public sector.
Re:The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf] on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:09PM (#31825590)
ignorance is a bliss
Re:Owl: OCaml Scientific Computing on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:20AM (#31432052)
OCaml already got multicore merged.
Re:Start with who, not why on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:43AM (#31166752)
I'd say always start with what. Figuring out what to solve is the most vital part.
Re:Twitter is adding an edit button on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:08AM (#30932092)
But life is append only.
Re:My seatbelt rule for judgment on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:28AM (#30240800)
That's why pattern matching and algebraic datatypes getting popular these years. Make Illegal States Unrepresentable
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:05PM (#30187494)
I agree with you on this, since we humans want things in a vague form, and it's still very hard for computers to infer insights from those ambiguous requirements. Not very easy to do that by taking derivatives of function compositions.
Probably we also have backpressure as a information receivers and the tube obviously does not care about that.
Ugh, maybe teach abstract algebra first like France did?
Re:The benefits of not belonging on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:39PM (#29248139)
You get used to being famous, but nobody gets used to being ignored.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:37PM (#29182988)
hidden negativity is depressing.

"Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur"

Re:Why Facebook is spending billions on the metaverse on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:49AM (#29067286)
Because capitalism never settles. It always crave for growth.
Re:Models of Programming on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:44AM (#29013190)
functional programming paradigm is boringly honest, you have functions chained together, and you can see exactly how your inputs get transfromed.

You use wire instead of radio wave to design your world.

Re:Facebook is planning to change its name, report says on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:26AM (#28931019)
facebook -> book
Re:How to Get over Fear of Disappointing Others (FODO) on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:16AM (#28852355)
It does serve a way to bear boredom and get things done.
Re:Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:07AM (#28852237)
“The king is surrounded by persons whose only thought is to divert the king, and to prevent his thinking of self. For he is unhappy, king though he be, if he think of himself.

This is all that men have been able to make themselves happy. And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.” (Pensees, Blaise Pascal)

I don't know why you are downvoted. But given even Unit 731 was granted immunity by the US, I guess justice ceded its place back then.

It's sad to see politicians made those 'practical' decisions to protect those criminals. Let alone countless people lost their lives or suffered just because a room of people wanted wars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Re:Go is a terrible language (2020) on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:20PM (#28823214)
Is there possibility that go adds algebraic datatype and pattern matching? error handling will be nicer that way generally.

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