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Who says concurrency has to be non-deterministic? Back that up with a single peer-reviewed paper or published book.

You said that you used "a small '$'". How's it any smaller than usual?

@shit_hn_says Why not? A thread allows for two parts of the program to be running concurrently. Whether or not they run in parallel is orthogonal. Why don't you think they allow fo…

How do you make your $ character appear smaller than usual?

I can't believe anyone here has never heard of reCAPTCHA. This is a pointless post.

It's a turing complete language. Why is it surprising or note-worthy that you can implement ML algorithms in it?

Did you read the fucking article? The application began as a simple CLI for executing JS, and had underscore as its standard library. So it was a CLI for underscore. Then they made…

"reactions like yours where women are challenged and questioned for seeking knowledge in the first place" No, come on, that's grossly unfair. I would never challenge or question a …

I get defensive, if you want to call it that, because I think any attempt to specially encourage one involuntary group is patronising. If a individual woman doesn't want to attend …

Yes, we should allow male only events. Why not? Or do you mean should we prevent women turning up? No we should not allow events that prevent women turning up. But if an event happ…

The problem is - should we follow this argument all the way? Do you precisely work out the proportion of people of every conceivable group in every team, and cause a fuss when it i…

I think that's totally illogical. How many members of your community are gay? Have red hair? Are left handed. You have no idea, and you wouldn't recruit based on those characterist…

I don't understand why the gender of a programmer is relevant to anything. You are concerned that there are no enough women. Why? Why do you want more women? Why is the particular …

This approach didn't work for Slashdot, Digg and Reddit, which are all fallen civilisations. If we don't try anything new to solve the problem, this civilisation will fall as well.…