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If you are saying that 0.01% is insignificant but 0.03% is not, then you might have gone off a little bit too far on the fan boy scale.

> The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support).

There is very little evidence of that. Do a search for Scala, Clojure or Haskell on the main indicator web sites (job boards, StackOverflow, TIOBE, indeed.com, etc...) and you'll find they are as insignificant today as they were five years ago compared to the mainstream languages.

> This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world.

I'm puzzled why you think this is good news for Haskell. The lead developer and architect of GHC and authority in parallel Haskell is announcing that he's taking a position that won't allow him to spend much time working on GHC, and he might even stop using Haskell completely.

It's great news for Simon but terrible news for Haskell.

I installed the Chrome plug-in, played with it for a while and ended up uninstalling. The problem is that I now have extra labels called Brand and Personal that just won't go away. I deleted them, double checked that there were no filters left, and still, they come back.

Anybody encounter this problem? It's very annoying.

And a good reminder why I don't let third party access my Gmail inbox :-(

> Apple sells physical devices for a massive profit. No one else has been able to sell phones/tablets for so much. Apple will keep doing that as long as it can, regardless of Google's efforts to undercut.

The article is about Apple's stock price, and I'm not sure you understand how that part works.

Yes, Apple will continue to make billions of dollars every quarter for quite a while, but their stock is likely to drop down significantly in the coming year.

Something the article misses: Sublime Text 2 already comes with a command line front end called "subl". Just copy it in your favorite bin/ directory and you can open your files with it from any shell.

That doesn't address my point, which was about includes at runtime of .js files.

The reason why you see big .js files is that it's not easy to split your code in a.js and have it include b.js from the server.

> It's a tool, or a design pattern if you will, that makes the developer either deal with exceptional state or make it somebody else's problem.

So, exactly like exceptions.

There is no easy way to include .js file that are stored on your server.

Ember.js?

> Languages like Kotlin are missing the point.

That's a bit harsh. JetBrains and the developers of the compiler are certainly aware of the Maybe/Option approach, they chose not to use it. Their approach is not as composable as Haskell's but much more practical and more readable in my opinion.

If anything, the fact that Option is still used so rarely in Scala is an indication that maybe, that experiment has failed.

> They've said (r and rsc) that they want to wait and make sure they get generics Right in the context of the rest of the language

In this case, wouldn't it have been better to ship 1.0 with generics?

Retrofitting generics in a language already released with an existing code base sure doesn't seem like the best way to make sure the feature is "done right".

The rumors of Java's death are, indeed, greatly exaggerated.

> It took me a couple of hours to write the email.

It always takes longer to write short emails, which is why so few people do it.