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It's the classic "not invented here" syndrome, but on the level of languages. It's not enough to be able to have strong types in Javascript, they want people to stop writing Javasc…

Pedantic, arrogant, and self-contradictory combined with poor reading comprehension and even worse social skills is the stereotype of the Haskell fanatic, and you're living up to i…

JS runs natively on the web, it embraces multiple paradigms, it has a huge community, and you can get a job in almost any city on earth if you know how to use it. Haskell may be "b…

True, but one way to push them to fix their engine and make it better is for them to feel pressure to not be left behind. People are going to code in the way that makes sense for t…

Some of us are actually quite aware of what's going on in Russia. It's true that the US is also very corrupt, and its populace is easily led into believing it has enemies everywher…

You rarely read HN, then. For most adults/businesses in developed countries, mobile is a secondary device, while PCs run everything from AAA games to filing systems to interfaces f…

It's definitely not standard, the almost universal standard is using ES6 import/export. There are several other suspicious patterns here, I definitely wouldn't take these as canoni…

I think this is great advice for a beginner on their first project. Using React's localState for everything is a huge anti-pattern, but Redux adds cognitive overhead and boilerplat…

So this is either a glorified bucket shop or yet another company with the brilliant idea of setting up an unregulated secondary market selling an incredibly wide variety of differe…

Uh, my whole point is that JS isn't that hard to learn, so why invest so much time trying to make it look like Java and write worse code in the process? Thanks for helping my argum…

Sorry, but I think most people don't consider a badly designed service that disenfranchises customers arbitrarily and coincidentally saves HTC a bunch of money to be a "weird quirk…

Chomsky can be a bit tiresome, but when talking about domestic US politics and media his descriptions fit the undisputed-but-largely-unknown record better than anyone else's: https…

Is there a non-haskell resource on monads you could recommend? Anything that starts with "first, learn haskell" is probably not the easiest way, assertions from people who already …

So it seems like the logical thing to do would be to create a study with better construct validity since it seems you don't think my evidence is any good and you definitely don't h…

> Also, its very strange to see these concepts illustrated with Javascript. I imagine thats something like trying to learn Chinese using the roman alphabet. Not that it can't be do…

It's slightly better than the OAU, whose heads have historically been a who's who of corrupt and brutal dictators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairperson_of_the_African_Uni... B…

Have you noticed that you never speak in concrete terms, only pejorative adjectives? Saying you find something "laughable" and not "agreeable" is a feeling, not a refutation.

You didn't present an argument, you just put my words in quotes and then made an appeal to an irrelevant authority. John Carmack doesn't do web apps, he does high-end 3D engines Yo…

http://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing/ So we've got data plus my experience plus my team's experience in a large, very successful enterprise on one side, and …

I feel exactly the opposite. I'm continually amazed that Java devs have still not acclimated themselves to Javascript after all this time. If you notice that the style you're used …

I still think it's a great story that's funny and well told while being respectful to the people involved. It's definitely indicative of a meaningful part of the culture that's ver…

While speaking a common language usually (but not always) helps, being a US citizen is the way more important part of the story. Police in the United States are used to generally t…

I'd just like to cosign your rebukes to both of us, they're very reasonable. Showing that you understand why I reacted how I did but that it wasn't productive is a totally legitima…

I think the lesson is really a universal one: if you let your passion for your field overwhelm your moral judgement, the weakest and worst parts of your character will be immortali…

When someone engages in dehumanizing language towards a group of people and their baseless characterization is satirized for being reductive, you're saying that the problem is the …