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Also has better WMs and package management!

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Yeah, expected return only makes sense in e.g. a diversified portfolio. edit: You can downvote all you want, but it still doesn't make sense to consider the expected return on one …

They also let you compose SQL fragments in ways that would be a lot more difficult or less clear otherwise. In the case of Diesel, they let you typecheck the composition of those f…

Disagree. There are too many STEM students already. It's just that plenty of web development shops are okay with hiring a physicist. It's a waste of money and time to encourage mor…

Yeah, I'll never tell someone not to learn something for the sheer enjoyment. But this article is downright pretentious. It gussies up a lot of simple day-to-day tasks with off-put…

I'm always curious what people are using the more exotic type system functionality of e.g. Haskell or Idris for in practice. It was interesting to hear that even Simon didn't expec…

So using CSS, one can fingerprint a browser and communicate that information back to home base by programmatic inclusion of font A or font B. This inclusion triggers the download f…

Unfortunately this begs the question a bit. How does one hire good managers? I mean good as in both competent and not jerks.

Not what I meant, no. In oversimplified terms, Rust has objects but not classes. It skews more toward: - from a C dev's perspective: data-driven design - from a Haskell dev's persp…

I'm going to be That Guy and suggest you give Rust a try. It's got the best of imperative and functional mixed in.

Thanks for helping to qualify when the proposed solution starts to become appropriate. I'd still really need a solid example of when this starts to be beneficial. Could anyone obli…

F# also handles physical units in a really nice way.

You might in fact love it. You'll get a nice overview of how interpreters actually work, for one thing.

The time and memory complexity are pretty severe with this method.