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Moment of Ruby: An Argument for Nothing aha.io

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Comment · 7 months ago

Can't believe this only got a couple of upvotes!

Comment · 9 months ago

There is one. Don't destroy the means of error correction. Without that, no further means of moral development can occur. So, that becomes the highest moral imperative.

(It's possible this could be wrong, but I've yet to hear an example of it.)

This idea is from, and is explored more, in a book called The Beginning of Infinity.

Comment · 11 months ago

The reason I dislike the twitter argument is, even if ruby was the root cause, the choice of ruby still launched the business and got them to that first success disaster.

The deeper reason I think it's a bad argument is because twitter ran into a problem native and new to them - massive fan out (celebrity tweet -> millions of followers). that's not the kind of thing any language typically does while responding to a web request.

Lastly - heavy survivorship bias here. We will never hear about all the startups which were "scalable from day 1" on java or whatever and fizzled out.

Looking at https://www.wired.com/author/sheon-han/, this author's whole strategy seems to be bear poking. The writer is skilled but at least in this ruby one they are definitely hate-farming. I'm a little sad to see content of this quality in Wired.

Anyway, I'm off. Returning to be part of the usually silent majority who is happily using ruby to ship useful software!

Comment · 11 months ago

I did try ruby-prolog. The deeper issue is that its just not prolog. Writing in actual prolog affords a lot of clarity and concision which would be quite noisy in ruby-prolog. To me, the difference was stark enough it wasn't worth any convenience already being in ruby was worth.

Comment · 11 months ago

I've wished for the same kind of 'embed prolog in my ruby' for enumerating all possible cases, all invalid cases, etc in test suites. Interesting to know it's not just me!

Comment · 11 months ago

I've recently started modeling some of my domains/potential code designs in Prolog. I'm not that advanced. I don't really know Prolog that well. But even just using a couple basic prolog patterns to implement a working spec in the 'prolog way' is *unbelievably* useful for shipping really clean code designs to replace hoary old chestnut code. (prolog -> ruby)

Comment · 1 year ago

One theory I've heard for this, and sorry I don't remember the source, is that Napoleon suspected if he truly did take down the Russian royalty then he expected the rest of European royalty to unite and attack attack him.

Comment · 2 years ago

Regardless of what you might think of Snowden, he has a good quip on this: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

Comment · 2 years ago

This made me curious. Having never read the gitlab code before, and on mobile, took all of about 30 seconds to find https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/config/ro...

Those are some pretty clean routes!

Tools for Quality Pull Requests aha.io

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Comment · 4 years ago

Suspect 6 minutes being increment has more to do with being 1/10 of an hour (easy to calculate rate) & and as fine-grained as you can get without being so obnoxious you can't track.

Comment · 4 years ago

If the cost of providing this research is high, who would fund this peer-reviewed research which wouldn't make them any money?

For example, who would fund more studies on ginger? https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ginger-for-migraines/

Comment · 4 years ago

I love Kung Fu Panda! It secretly became my favorite movie. Secretly, because it wasn't until years after I'd seen it that I realized how much I liked it compared to... every other movie.

Comment · 4 years ago

MMT has seemed to me to be an academic fig leaf over the indirect taxation which occurs when more money is printed. MMT is fundamentally wrong, and everyone smart knows it is, but you as an individual can't make any sort of "respected" career as an economist unless you say the right things or are stupid enough to believe them.