mortyseinfeld
Joined 13 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Is Taco still hacking Perl?
Comment · 12 years ago
The first thing authoritarian states do is take the guns.
Comment · 12 years ago
Your boss can't make you work ridiculous hours
Comment · 12 years ago
Each time I read madness as 60h/w, 70h/w or the wtf 80h/w I am really happy to live and work on EU
I'm happy I don't live in EU. I don't have to work 80 hours, but if I choose to then that should be my right. Europe is too anti-ambition and its policies reflect that.
Comment · 12 years ago
The only reason to have these types of equipment is because of an "us against them" attitude of the cops. And the "them" isn't just "criminals".
But that's what you get when you vote in folks that demand that government be the center of attention of everybody's lives.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's useful for any language/framework, whether it's verbose or not.
The benefits of functional languages tend to not be as great as they could be because the tooling sucks (or kind of sucks). Look at Scala. The IDEs sucked for years. That's changed recently, but it was a big problem for adoption. F# is similar. Although support is baked into Visual Studio these days, the IDE support is spartan to say the least compared to C# with resharper.
There seems to be a class of developers that have a hard time understanding the enormous productivity boosts that good tooling provides.
Comment · 12 years ago
Wish it were a Intellij plugin and for Clojure instead of Racket. I'd buy it.
Comment · 12 years ago
Amazing how time flies. That picture of the cast is from half a century ago.
Comment · 12 years ago
Luckily I've left Chrome for Firefox nightly. I'm moving all my nontechie family members over to Firefox too. Google thinks they're being cute playing these stupid games, but it'll just hurt them in the end.
Comment · 12 years ago
They would probably be entitled to asking for your wallet password, yes.
No, they shouldn't be entitled.
Comment · 12 years ago
Agreed. The guy isn't a sympathetic figure, but this is a horrible policy nonetheless. This is one of those thought crimes to me.
Comment · 13 years ago
It's zero-sum if the tooling around Haskell is antiquated compared to Java's. But the idea that a language is going to make us "that" much more productive has to go. We need much, much better tools.
Comment · 13 years ago
We're still in the dark ages when it comes to software development, and I don't believe it's because we're using Java instead of Haskell.
I believe we need much more powerful tools that help us in understanding large code bases. Tools that can help us visualize what's going on. Tools that can do testing for us. Tools that can rewrite code for us (think Resharper or other Jetbrains refactoring tools), but an order of magnitude better.