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They weren't overhyped. Your point is a common and old canard. The worry wasn't that avian flu or the swine flu would kill a lot of people in their current states, but that they wo…

What do you think questions are for?

The Java frameworks are generally doing very well (top quarter to top half), and the PHP frameworks are generally doing very poorly (bottom half). PHP-raw is doing well, but that's…

I was considering other factors in that generalization, although they're implicit. E.g., a lot of the "cool" language frameworks I mentioned are comparable with the Java frameworks…

I think you've got the charts backwards. Symfony2 is slower than CI in every chart.

Is the following a fair generalization? Java should be the conservative choice for your web framework's language (rather than PHP). Scala, Clojure, Nodejs, Erlang, Lua, and Haskell…

Yes, you can do all of those things with sublime's API ( https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL , https://github.com/SublimeText/Origami ). Yes, emacs is more extensible, but not wher…

Why did you go to all that trouble to make an analogy when you have no evidence to back it up?

I'm guessing, but I think it's because yesod uses a lot of magic such as templates and the like. The other frameworks like Snap use more idiomatic Haskell.

#haskell, #yesod, #snapframework on freenode are very helpful.

I think Adria could have avoided this if she apologized not for reporting the offenders to pycon, but for publicly identifying them. She was given the perfect opportunity for this …

You have it backwards. I don't care how racism is defined. I care about whatever the word "racism" points to in the real world. But you have to realize that a word can point to any…

You're lacking an understanding of linguistics and philosophy. Both usages are no more correct than the other, and the point of such usages is to ascribe a connotation to a cluster…

That's all a bit silly. We have a common understanding or definition of what racism is and it connotes something immoral. _Some_ sociologists define racism as something else which …

Personally, and I think this might be the case with most people here, I'm most worried by the public shaming of the two individuals. Them being kicked out of PyCon isn't as much a …

I'm clear on that. This whole issue is deeply entwined with philosophy which makes it all a bit amorphous. From one perspective, you could argue that it's moral to boycott SendGrid…

I don't think assuming or mentioning negative talking points in the form of a question is a productive way to have a discussion.

It's a sane move if you want to discourage the culture that Adria is encouraging. Certainly her employers don't deserve any blame, though.

"I'm pretty sure relating and disclosing a situation that happened in a public place fully to the best of her ability shouldn't be something we call irresponsible. In fact, women w…

"Sexism is not at issue here." I got the impression reading Adria's blog post that she thought she was responding to sexism. Sexism is what most everyone is responding to in this e…

Another option is to get pocket for chrome which adds an icon to google reader items and thereby allowing you to save your starred items to pocket.

You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.

Netvibes is another alternative (it has a widget and reader view).

It is different and difficult. I think that's because functional programming isn't simply a sideways step from imperative programming, but is instead a level of abstraction higher …

Just considering the language, then I think Scala is considerably easier to learn than haskell _if_ you're from an OO background. It's a multi-paradigm language making it easy to u…