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Yeah I noticed, thanks for the heads up. I guess this is why there are no usernames left.

This is what I find really fascinating about openbsd. For no apparent reason, people like darklajid here feign offense at anything and everything just so they can say "openbsd suck…

Except that NetBSD consistently outperforms FreeBSD. So does DragonflyBSD. FreeBSD is pretty much just "the popular one linux people try out for a day".

Not only is chasing fads a waste of time, but his perception of node is frankly rather bizarre. The node fad is already over. It isn't gaining steam. Mongo is on its way out, it is…

Go has absolutely no claim to being C's successor. It is useless for all the things it makes sense to use C for. That's why it has attracted virtually no C programmers. Go is pytho…

You explicitly stated that any variation from a random distribution must be due to factors other than individual agency. But of course, you know that. How does someone whose postin…

Shit, I guess I must have been sick the day we covered "men and women are statistically identical in all choices they make". Was that in calculus?

>Individual agency en masse should be a random distribution What are you basing that assumption on? You are 100% certain that there is no possible way that men and women could have…

So live in Mississauga? It is the nicest place anywhere near Toronto anyways. Also you missed Toronto itself which has tons of tech jobs, and richmond hill/markham which absolutely…

If you don't want to learn haskell then don't. It is the weird insistence on making up ridiculous excuses that I have a problem with. Making up a strawman version of "the haskell c…

>The fact that there is so much maths talk surrounding Haskell really doesn't help Nor does it hurt. It only provides something for people to point to while they say "look, people …

I'm always baffled by these kinds of statements. I learned ocaml first, so haskell wasn't too big a leap for me. But I did get to watch my wife go through the process of learning h…

I have "tried it & stopped". I only tried it to check out webmachine, which appears to the be only web framework in existence that is not stupid and terrible. I stopped because I w…

I am aware of that quote. And that is precisely my point, he is talking about premature optimization, not optimization. What could possibly make you think that the questions in thi…

>That wasn't what I suggested at all Obviously I can't tell what you meant to say, but it is what you did say. "If your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an imp…

>These are premature optimization tweaks How can you apply a blanket "premature" to this? The questions are simply "can this be improved?". There's nothing premature about it, it i…

>Honestly, if your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless. Really? If you don't randomly flit from fad …

>It doesn't ensure they stay relevant but it's a better strategy than watching your target demographic leave your platform. I don't see any evidence to support that claim. It is a …

38.2% of people got 4/5 or 5/5 questions right. That is amazing. I never would have guessed anywhere even close to that. I would have figured it would be around 15% or so given tha…

>Why is their stock overvalued? Because delusional people still didn't learn their lesson from the first bubble. >Do you have any evidence of this Their P/E is 112. That's the very…

But it in no way ensures they stay relevant. It is literally just blindly flailing around buying anything that gets a lot of users out of fear and having no idea how to maintain th…

Except the number of active users reinforces his point, it doesn't make it invalid. >At the time of AOL's acquisition of ICQ it had 20 million active users¹ Or 40% of the internet …

No, you have taken a "stick my head in the sand and pretend the last 30 years of progress didn't happen" and repeating it without understanding. I do web development in haskell. I …

>You can get detailed timing data about parse, plan, execute timings from postgresql logging. Parsing is almost always trivial. And yet you can get >50% speedups for super common q…

Those are functions, not stored procedures.