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And if you think monad transformers are the answer to anything, maybe you should let go of your books and try some real problems for a change. I spent several years digging into Ha…

JavaScript and PHP are badly/barely designed languages, period; no amount of excuses and comparisons is going to change the fact. Anyone with a bit of experience in either Ruby or …

That says more about Java than Script though, and I've done enough of that to feel your pain. Coming from plenty of experience with sane dynamic languages (Common Lisp/Smalltalk/Cl…

For a programming language, I much prefer function over form. Same goes for gadgets, but that's another story.

Good luck with that.

Because real languages allow creating your own abstractions to fill the gaps, Go doesn't. Witness the total lack of decent error handling and data structures; despite probably thou…

C is primitive but powerful. Go is primitive and safe. I would classify the Wirth-family of languages as safe but powerful. It all comes down to power; Go was explicitly designed t…

That, or some sort of Forth; the separate keyword also enables calling anonymous functions recursively: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...

Been there, done that :) It's a neat trick, but the issue for me is that you still need to pass a separate struct for state which breaks the illusion enough that you might as well …

How can it be better when it fails randomly and we don't even understand how it works? Where I come from, that's the worst kind of software.

Write lots of code, in different languages; find increasingly real problems to challenge your skills. Unless, of course, you're just interested in becoming another whatever; then y…

Go kill yourself (?) for someone else's (?) profit then, you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink.

Google not working for you? I picked this at random, you'll have to use your own brain if you want to know more: https://draxe.com/canola-oil-gm/ "Canola oil is a Canadian inventio…

Yes, and rape seed oil has the about the same combination of fatty acids as olive oil; which is healthy; but it's still poisonous gmo crap. Same goes for HFCS. The amount of geneti…

You are also most probably human, have you even bothered to have a look inside?

It's always there for anyone to grab. Try lying on your back with all your gadgets turned off and eyes closed; and observe your brain thinking for a while; which is about as diffic…

Pharo ( http://pharo.org ) is also worth mentioning on the subject of modern Smalltalk environments.

This boils down to a fundamental divide in life view. Anyone who has done any amount of expanding their consciousness will tell you that there is a ghost in the machine. It's alway…

They're tested by the same psychos that created the drugs and their bought fan club, otherwise things like Oxy would never have made it to market. It's worth repeating, big pharma …

From my perspective, OxyContin is obviously designed to be as addictive as possible; and they have been lying all along. These people are not fully functioning humans, they will do…