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Wait? This doesn't require people to remove su right? Isn't it just a preferred alternative?

Monad transformers are the workaround for monads don't compose. Look at "Appendix I: Look Ma, No Transformers!" on the page to show benefit. Can compose and don't need the transfor…

Maybe the low numbers don't indicate apathy, but a lack of appealing choices. "Hey! Do you want to be shit on or pissed on?" "Um, neither." Not apathy.

That's a really cool idea.

Because I'm not from the US and I couldn't give a shit about yet another random, mass murdering there. Not all countries in the world have the US's hyper-sensitivity to race (reall…

Sounds nauseating. As an introvert, I can't comprehend how people have the energy for this. (At a significant disadvantage to my own startup, I admit.)

This article resonates with me. It perfectly matches both how I view my own startup, and how I feel when I read about other startups online (the vast majority of which happen to be…

I misread as "Incremental Garbage in Ruby 2.2" and thought "ha! I guess that's one way of looking at it."

Cool, this article will be really helpful when I have $100mil.

These are great slides. Author knows their stuff.

> Rust is for people who […] program in Haskell for fun. Go is for people who have a job to do. Typical condescending PL bullshit. So many programmers like to say that their PL of …

I don't agree with him but I don't think such a view should warrant his resignation. He didn't say "no females in science!", he said "scientists should work in gender-segregated la…

Maybe he was applying for the role of Lead Binary Tree Inverter. The astute will notice that he repeatedly ignored opportunities to confirm or deny that the position for which he a…

I'm continually saddened and embarrassed by my shit country, Australia.

I don't know about Debian, it's probably fine, but Arch is stable. It's the most stable distro I've ever used.

What?

Google cuts off Android (OS) updates when phones are older than 2.5 years. The minimum OS version supported by apps is continually rising. A 6 year old Android phone is near useles…

This guy's talking out his arse. > "Most linguists would agree that if you are using any formal system of symbols or codification to communicate such a plan, then you are using a l…

Stupid. NIH. "Why didn’t you just use React?" "We like knowing in detail how code works". Such a common motif these days. Cool I hope that was worth 2 months of x devs' time.