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Relative to Ruby it has more upfront checking of some things. In Elixir, calling a function that doesn't exist or with the wrong number of arguments is something that will error ou…

> I checked out our shared Twitter history, we talked a fair bit in the past but I wasn't able to find _anything_ like this. > I mean this sincerely — are you _sure_ you didn't get…

There's also comments support in Flow directly, but it's sadly (but understandably) hideous: function somefunction(somestring/*: string*/)/*: boolean */ { var ret/*: boolean */; ..…

> It falls short on many things TS would immediately flag I'm kind of curious what you've run into personally. Having a dependency without any type-defs get silently treated as `an…

It means restricting to where you can perform IO actions, eg. printing to a log, writing to a shared area of memory, etc. Haskell does this by representing IO actions as values, eg…

A list of items in an array. Some items in that list are of particular note. (Say you have 15 items in an array. For whatever reason, such as you not being in control of the expect…

> I've used the Haste compiler which IS Haskell that supports ALL GHC extensions except TemplateHaskell, supports the Cabal build tool and in practice it has its own ecosystem; mos…

Agreed; HipChat is unfortunately a bit terrible about this. I'll often "lose" a notification from someone when I'm offline: it sends an email, yep, but the chat client itself loses…

I'd be cautious: the range is too small for me (6'1" / 188cm). On a regular desk that suits me, it doesn't go high enough, and if you prop things on the desks up a bit, you then ne…

> ... being signed in is in-memory state. Can be in-memory state. Everything beyond toy-sized I've ever worked on has externalised this sort of state to a database of some kind, if…

In case the question is actually "Why not 1.9.3?", it's likely because 1.9.3 is End Of Life, and doesn't even get security upgrades now: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/01/1…

I recommend reading this (or at least pages 4-6 if you're in a rush) and the footnoted sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1soIYek-YEIvqtu9brv3ecdPb...

The iPhone has VoiceOver, and there are bluetooth Braille keyboards/displays for typing. This page goes into a bit more detail: https://andreashead.wikispaces.com/How+Do+Blind+Peop…

To just see the content on the page, paste this into the console: $('body').append(' .lesson,.post{visibility:visible;} '); (I enjoyed reading the content, but found it infuriating…

"If network connectivity is lost, you will need to launch a new session." As an Australian, I fear this is yet another one of those things we won't be able to use on our spotty 250…

I'd love to see how this goes. :D I recommend having a read of this other discussion thread further up the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312701

This won't do anything for you there; it just collapses a Class and a record ID down into a string for you (and then pulls it back out of your database later with a GlobalID::Locat…

Spooky23 is being sarcastic.

I'm of the opinion that languages around the 10 year mark (which PHP is obviously well past) really ought to focus on becoming the best X they can be, rather than chasing the tail …

The C2 wiki has some discussion on the topic: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonGlobalProblems http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonsAreEvil (And also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottdensmo…

Slight off-topic, sorry – I'm having a hard time reading the text on the photo background: http://i.imgur.com/StACWqu.png

This is also an excellent (and very long) piece that does the same: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

I think there may be a typo with the first example: newtype ID a = ID Int deriving (Eq,Ord,Show) Should possibly just be: newtype ID a = ID a deriving (Eq,Ord,Show)