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jgrant27

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About jgrant27

https://imagine27.com https://twitter.com/jng27

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    Comment #34070761

    Plenty of rationalization of how java (the language) is "subjective for developers" in terms of productivity and happiness. From a non-engineer view though, let's be real : nobody …

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    Comment #29308111

    Comrade Klabnik has been as toxic for the Rust community as he was for the Ruby on Rails community. This could actually turn out to be a positive for the future of the language and…

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    Comment #29299558

    If you have used Rust in any real world capacity on actual projects you know that there are no "Little Books" when its comes to using Rust. An overly complex and unproductive langu…

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    Comment #29262258

    Clueless. Doesn't know the difference between Bitcoin(Proof of work) and "Crypto" shit coins (proof of stake) which are not in any way decentralized. Bitcoin has had a greater than…

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    Comment #28823187

    Most applications I tend to see don’t even use concurrency because they are so small and simple that they don’t need it. Sorry but I just can't take your opinion of any language se…

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    Comment #28823104

    Have you debugged.it ? Debugging seems to be the author's coding philosophy which says it all. While I had over a decade of experience in other languages, such as Python, PHP, Java…

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    Comment #28776423

    Maybe, however the author has over 20 years of professional Lisp experience, there are interesting points made for anyone in that category. To be fair though, did you read the post…

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    Comment #28720600

    The irony of this is next level, after all Microsoft has been threatening innovation for decades. This sounds more like their typical corporate propaganda to get workers back onto …

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    Comment #28610598

    After using Rust for a few years professionally it's my take that people that really want to use it haven't had much experience with it on real world projects. It just doesn't live…

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    Comment #27505936

    I wrote Pong in Clojure back in 2009 in https://imagine27.com/pong_in_clojure

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    Comment #27077517

    They are still classes, still live on the heap and still need to be garbage collected. Compare with value types that live on the stack in other languages such as Swift, Go and Juli…

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    Comment #26651091

    Flimsy counter-argument.

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    Comment #25294354

    It's just not true. Ryzen laptops have been available for months for a fraction of the price of a macbook that are just as impressive. https://imagine27.com/rise-of-the-mac-serial-…

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    Comment #23885513

    I've used Mac hardware for over 25 years and own both laptops.

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    Comment #23885244

    It runs Linux perfectly.

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    Comment #23885137

    Article author here and owner. It's just not true. The screen, thermals and noise are nothing like the review.

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    Comment #23293789

    Bezos has plenty of his own narrative fallacies going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfJVj5z8s

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    Comment #23087633

    Code is here --> https://github.com/justinmimbs/rs-asteroids

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