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Email is a cesspool, this is a genius idea.

People in Quebec are actively hostile to other languages in general, mostly for historical reasons. Probably not the best place to get started haha

I honestly can't tell if this is a shallow dismissal or if you are proving your own point by being the most upvoted comment.

I feel like a lot of users on HN are producers rather than users of software, and haven't used node-based systems like in blender or nuke. They are extremely productive, and end up…

What we really need isn't more syntax, it's core features like threads, operator overloading, a large std library, some real form of serialization (JSON doesn't come close to count…

> They may not even be capable of it. Come on now...

Like all "theories" of art and music this model is no good as it isn't predictive. There are plenty of good art with brightly saturated color. Deciding spontaneously that muted col…

That's very true, videos that record powerpoints are also often hard to read.

That's an interesting study. I feel like maybe engagement is the wrong metric, much how like A/B testing gives a good local result but a poor global result. I finished a dozen or s…

I'm going to go against the grain here but just putting cameras in classrooms and dumping that on Youtube works just fine. The content on MIT opencourseware feels a lot nicer than …

It's because designers are just clueless and don't know how things are implemented. The opposite is also true: the parent is practically an alien here for liking design yet he does…

What problems do you run into? I'm familiar with lisp's macro system but didn't get to look into hygienic macros in other language, and was wondering if they are equivalent.

Why not just include interactive exercices/puzzles into the html documents? I took a db course not to long ago and would have loved it to be more "hands on".

This is really nice and looks great. The diagram is super useful and I could see myself using this for the rough planning of an app. That being said, I feel like like the use cases…

:)) I love macros so much

I mostly miss them for constructing objects with default values, yes. The alternative is the builder pattern, which involves a lot of boilerplate.

Skepticism towards keyword arguments is something I have trouble understanding. Is it because of some performance consideration? Thanks for your answer!

This is unrelated, but do you know if Rust's omission of exceptions is a consequence of the borrow checker, or an explicit design choice? I get that most people come to Rust from C…

Subjective != arbitrary.

You can have lots of expressivity without having that many features. But go has neither, and things like no operator overloading just plain sucks when dealing with vectors, for exa…

Do you mean winner in terms of popularity or in terms of quality? In terms of popularity, it's pretty clear we are in for at least a decade of C++ & Javascript.

Content and presentation both change, and together. That's how it's always been for every type of media. How much space you have on the newspaper determines what your article's tit…

The whole point of abstract data types is to separate implementation from interface in order to allow a change in representation. The point is to allow programming things like the …