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my comment in no way takes the thread into a flame war, and i'm pretty frustrated that it's being judged that way

it's commonly totally sufficient for IDs to represent a rough sort order millisecond precision is great for a lot of use cases

the point isn't that issues and PRs exist, it's that the maintainers don't seem to know what they're doing this is self-evident from a cursory review link me any 3 non-trivial merg…

and what does your experience tell you about applications which are not written in PHP, and which need to handle more than 1000 concurrent users?

code generators are programs written in an existing programming language, which produce target language source code as output macros are programs written in a separate, unique, oft…

usually, code generation is preferable to metaprogramming, mostly because it is easier to understand and maintain

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metaprogramming is not a virtue programming languages do not themselves need to be programmable

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and a government warrant bypasses all of that there was this whole thing with edward snowden a few years ago, maybe you remember?

where does all of that hardware live? unless it's in your home, it's not trustable

bare metal has high capex and low opex cloud vms have low capex and high opex which one is more expensive is a function of many variables

how do you know your network is trusted and/or private? trick question: you can't even the network links between hosts in a single rack in a DC can be vulnerable

no, it isn't it's an unsatisfiable requirement, and unnecessary to substantiate the legal claims it's dumb to talk about

yes, really feeding input to a program is pretty clearly categorically different than providing source material to a human being

how could someone "prove" which inputs and outputs of a large ML model leveraged any specific data?

i fully understand and appreciate the distinctions, and equivocations, you're describing here. i also agree with you that the best "stuff" acknowledges and maximizes both left- and…

i think my example of "balancing equations" was a poor one. obviously, there is almost never a single objective solution to a programming problem. probably a better metaphor for pr…

yep! and i have almost exactly the opposite experience! with ruby i feel (same caveats) like there is so much ambiguity that i can't build a coherent and predictable mental model o…

it's a spectrum, of course, but imo yes -- i don't want types to be opt-in at compile time, i want them to be mandatory

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it's definitely possible to model programming as an art, and there is value in that model, but (imo) that model is neither productive nor accurate in most programming contexts

right! and, to build on that: people who see programming as maths understand it fundamentally differently than those who see it as prose, they approach every aspect of programming …

it characterizes programming in a way that is basically incoherent to most stereotypical programmers (i agree with you, for the record, it was gobbledegook to me too) the question …

i don't think anybody really claims python can't be used to build large software the claim is usually more about how the maintenance costs are just way higher versus a statically t…