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YcombRegBroken

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    Comment #6246947

    Callbacks all the way down. I blame 42% of my recent gray hair on callbacks.

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    Comment #6201746

    Any time you are the subject of prejudice, it is a source of stress. While it isn't at the level of a classic civil rights struggle, it still exists. What prejudice? As the article…

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    Comment #6149933

    I swear I'm not a grammar nazi, but I did just spend the past 10 minutes thinking about ideal user interfaces for zombies and vampires. Thanks for that...

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    Comment #6122795

    You are 100% correct. If it was just scaling, you wouldn't have companies like Paypal switching to a "cool" open plan layout that the employees hate but the managers get a thrill f…

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    Comment #5992091

    Ok, look, I understand that you spent a lot of time learning Haskell, and desperately want that time to not have been in vain. You have to back off the preaching though. The conver…

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    Comment #5986137

    I'm a little confused here. You realize that Go is also statically typed, right? I'm not sure where any debate about dynamic languages started. The points you make about static vs …

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    Comment #5982214

    I'm not a haskell expert (obviously), but the time it takes me to parse things like this is time I would rather spend reading 5-10x the number of lines and getting the meaning righ…

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    Comment #5981628

    Haskell (and most of the other languages mentioned) is exceptionally clever. This, above all else, is it's downfall. For me, especially when tasked with building a high productivit…

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    Comment #5980560

    Round 4 of these tests is what triggered my dive into Go this past month, and it has been a revelation. If you add in the concurrency capabilities, the language simplicity, and nic…

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    Comment #5895515

    Very interesting demo. I would suggest inverting the click to drag direction. Almost every other drag to pan interaction, from google maps to touch devices, uses the opposite mode.…