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I mean, it has to be asked... was the source of chardet not in the training set...?

I've had my job offshored in the past, in case a personal anecdote is relevant here.

Yeah, it's basically a toolkit for building jitted languages. Basically the easiest way to get a tracing jit these days. So it'll be a self-hosting jit similar to pypy or pixie.

Yeah, it was a difficult decision to remove types - I'd gotten myself into a corner trying to tack on dependent types, and it just wasn't happening. My bet is that unlike most of t…

um, it's a flower

Exactly! This is what the @method / @impl system is for - it's about equivalent to clojure's defprotocol. Future plans include named protocols consisting of multiple methods, and p…

Argh, thanks for the cache link. I'm still on heroku free-tier :\

Yep, it's my opinion, and that's why I put it into the design. Lots of language design comes from opinions. I hope it's borne out. FWIW it's the same approach Rust has taken, where…

Yep! It focuses more on dynamic type-checks than on static typing though, so I put it in the category of "untyped functional" - more like clojure and erlang than haskell or ml.

It was a decision I made, partly because I realized they were right, and partly because I think tulips are pretty. ) ( ( _) |/

See, I actually know it has to do with gender because I used to have a beard. I got treated very differently back then.

As someone who has tried to document and report shitty behavior, it's important to keep in mind how risky that is. Here are a few patterns I've observed: pattern (a) MAN: does shit…

I have heard most of these things, and it sucks. This is hella real.

If he is, it's pretty tame compared to the treatment of those who criticize him, and those who claim to support those who criticize him.

Content note: plays sound. Did the quick ^W at work :|

This is essentially where I'm going with ix. Vim with an awesome haskell-like language underneath whose syntax is optimized for doing powerful stuff in command mode. A prototype is…

I don't know if this can be solved without a syntax change. As long as there is variable binding and variable mutation are conflated in the syntax, there's really no good way for t…

ah, thanks, i didn't know that trick.

why are we still listening to arrington again?

Here's a collection of other writings by pg about women: http://sambiddle.kinja.com/paul-graham-writing-about-women-o... This would be different if there were no context, but there…

not sure why i can't reply to ars_technician, but fwiw sexism is a problem that we need protections against.

Sarcasm is a brilliant tool to use against derailing.