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Gender-shaming male developers is hostile, but Mozilla never cared about that, did they? Or how about that time Eich donated thousands of dollars to try and prevent homosexual marr…

Then don't read it. In several years you've made only a couple negative, snarky comments on HN. If a guy writes an entire book and you don't want to read it because he made a spell…

That is exactly true! I have experience teaching kids Lua, and with the right metaphors and a little bit of backtracking and foundation-building, even complicated ideas like emulat…

I wasn't. India is country of more than a billion low-income people and a poor education system. It's not their fault that they aren't great communicators.

Let's play 'bait or indian' >arpangupta It was indian! Thanks for playing, see you next time!!

You misunderstand how capitalism works. If you don't want these companies to succeed, don't give them money and don't give them data they can make money from. I don't use Facebook …

Sounds like you want better hardware. Which is what we ALL want.

I stopped at Vice.com

I understand, but your opinion doesn't change the facts. Scala.js is more than mature, with some huge projects already built in it. I'd not heard of erlangonxen, but it would take …

You've repeatedly censored dozens of people and fostered an unwelcome space for people who are smarter than you and people with different opinions than yours. Please stop doing tha…

Yep, every fucking thread there's some "Oh wow, people have opinions that are different from mine" comment, and then a bunch of pseudo-meta discussion that just clogs up the site. …

Note the lack of technical claims that one is superior to the other, thanks for pigeonholing what I was getting at.

Or JS with Scala.js Or literally anything with Scala Native, which is being sponsored and supported by EPFL directly. So yeah, no.

Relative to LLVM, I mean. I don't think there are any huge red flags with regards to BEAM.

I switched from Ruby to Scala, and I have had an absolute blast. Elixir is sort of chained to BEAM, which doesn't appear to have as bright a future as the JVM or LLVM does, so Scal…

missed a couple Govt classes? The existence of central banks are opposed by people who want to restrict third-party control of their money, not let any loser who walks by have a sa…

And you say you don't like Ayn Rand! Terse is just another word for unimaginative, when it comes to prose. I think you might be blurring the lines between writing something in a so…

Oh yeah, because those are a dime a dozen and available almost everywhere! /s

Reasonability. In an age where billion dollar companies are gutted by 16yo hackers on a monthly basis, it's worth the effort to build strong, secure systems that can be formally re…

I am so freaking excited about Scala Native. I haven't been so genuinely excited and enthusiastic about something for such a long time, but Scala Native is so awesome. I feel like …

Ironic how this will be flagged to shit and seen by only a few.

Yeah, how dare someone think anything differently than exactly what you think?!?!?! /s

There is no argument. What the department is or is not doing is not up for argument. Objective reality doesn't change just because the dept used to have a different name, that's st…

Yeah what do I know anyways? I just work there, I'm sure your google search lends you more clarity as to what they're doing than my day-after-day exposure. Cool.

Are you aware of the primary purpose of the Department of DEFENSE?