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I comment rarely, but had to chime in as the ACA was very important to me in terms of starting a company. The ACA also allowed me to pursue founding a company. 6 months before the …

I can confirm this.

elon = grit, as an entrepreneur when i have dark times, i'll read about him to get amped. my favorite quote: "Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God …

I have and forgot to mention it. Good IDE, but still not on par with VS IMO.

That's a great question. Here's my take on it: I switched from Windows to Linux over a decade ago...but as somebody that has to often write a lot of C/C++ code, man do I miss Visua…

Good to see work is being done on it, but until it's in the main implementation for at least a year...I wouldn't trust it on anything that matters. The advantage of kernel threads …

What's interesting about Haskell in this regard is due to the pure functional nature, the Church-Rosser theorem applies...every function call could be executed in its own thread wi…

Look, I love OCaml and it's my favorite language syntax-wise, but the real big elephant in the room is not its JS-backend maturity. Rather it doesn't have kernel thread support...a…

there will always be those hardcore "videophiles" that will claim they can see the pixels even at a nanoscale ;)

As somebody who spent a few years in Saudi Arabia (as well as visiting some of its fellow oil rich neighbors)...I can confirm this problem which is endemic to all rich Middle Easte…

As I always used to tell my students, your degree is just a piece of paper that helps you get your foot in the door. Its worth is equivalent to the effort and energy you put into i…

I think this is a fantastic concept with lots of potential! I especially loved the tongue-in-cheek humor -- "Eternal moral vigilance is no laughing matter." In my opinion, deleting…

What's most interesting and beautiful about the concept of free, open education is that people that would not have access to a college education can now have it. I'm talking about …

Even before I ever read GoF, I found myself using their design patterns in my object-oriented code (i.e. "reinventing" what already existed). At the time I didn't think it was any …

I've seen this point brought up. Making some easy (which I'm all for btw) does not mean it has to lock down aspects that average users are not meant to look at it (i.e. DRM). It's …

Wow, I had no idea I would stir up the beehive so much! Perhaps I was a bit dramatic in my presentation. The point I'm trying to make isn't that Apple, Google, etc are evil nor am …

It's not anti-Unix or anti-programmer...it's all about being anti-freedom. All these companies want to do is turn your computing experience into a locked down, controlled, monitore…

The point he's trying to make is that Lisp lacks typing. In Lisp, code is data and data is code. This is what makes it so powerful. At the same time, the lack of certain safeguards…

-Good points about OCaml/Standard ML. One big omission though (at least I did not see it) was the lack of emphasis on the concept of "pattern matching". I'm not sure about SML, but…

You know how it is with benchmarks...it can vary so much. I'm not sure how much work is done these days on the OCaml compiler. I recall there being a big debate a few years back ab…

This is a fascinating topic that is always debated. There's always arguments about how young, which language (BASIC, Logo, Scratch, Python, Haskell (yikes!)), which paradigm (funct…

It's fascinating to see FP being used in the "real world" rather than academia! I absolutely love OCaml and use it all the time to write major projects. I've always loved the type …

I always felt the problem with web programming was not so much the expressiveness of existing languages, but rather the hacked nature of the web and more generally the Internet. We…