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Well, you're right that I'm an asshole. And you're right that I'm not inline with your discipline. I'm just inline with my own discipline where promise has a different meaning, a s…

You're defining a promise in terms of what is "under the hood." You actually define promise in terms of what-the-hardware-does. This demonstrates the varying levels of abstraction …

The distinction between functional and imperative is precisely a semantic game and nothing else. Semantic games are meaningful or this blog post wouldn't be on HN. The title of the…

I'm not saying his design sense is wrong. I'm saying his characterization of promises as functional is so close to being right that it's the worst kind of wrongness. It's worse to …

This was my thought as well. Promises are declarative... making a promise is almost the very definition of declarative programming. It's not functional at all. This reaffirms my be…

Only the powerless public. The guys at the top seem to behave very rationally in their looting of the country.

If there is literally no light pollution in your vicinity (like in the middle of northern canada, hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest small town) on a very very clear nigh…

"This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity." Newspapers really aren't much better, they're mainly better at appearing to have int…

If Wall Street doesn't get a cut, it's an immoral business practice! By bypassing Wall Street, you're actually stealing profit from the too-big-to-fail investment banks. This threa…

The key is making sure that the regulated and the regulators are different people. Americans seem to believe that the best people to regulate corporations are the lobbyists of thos…