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rflynn

Re:Functional Programming Is Worse Than Crap on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:28AM (#3908913)
I've been writing non-functional programs for years.
Simple. Incentivize existing programmers to get a sex change.
Re:Python FAQ: Equality on Saturday April 14, 2012 @04:47PM (#3841947)
Good stuff. I was playing around with ordinality of language built-ins recently and found unintuitive results for Python (https://github.com/rflynn/wat/blob/master/src/py.ord.png). As your article mentions there is a fine line between language and implementation detail.

    >>> u"" > () > "" == u""
    True
Re:TSA Security Theater Described In One Simple Infographic on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @09:18AM (#3827356)
The most interesting data for me is the timeline near the bottom and it's the one thing they didn't illustrate.