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Functional programming was alive? Who knew.

"but it's a lot cooler" Are you referring to the work or Perl? Most programmers I know working in a scientific area switched to Python years ago and run away screaming when they he…

People still building software in Perl ought to be arrested.

If your looking for a powerful canvas feature, qt is really your only choice. That's what swung me away from gtk and wx.

Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.

Or just write the fast bits in C, call it from Python via ctypes and get the GIL unlocked and parallelism for free.

Same here. As a nice side effect, QThread somehow makes signals work again, so you can Ctrl-C a MT Python program (you still have to set a handler for SIGINT but at least it works)…

So if mass and charge are both just attributes of particles, what is the "charge equivalent" of the Higgs boson? And if there isn't one, then why is it assumed the HB exists? Why c…

If it were simple why aren't these lawsuits being thrown out the front door? Why isn't FRAND turning out to be the watertight defence it ought to be? (serious question I would love…

Python3 and Perl6 can both fuck off. I look forward to the day PyPy is considered the real Python. Look at PyPy's homepage ( http://pypy.org/ ), doesn't even mention Unicode as a s…

Legal in what country?

>Google's is worse because it takes all rights to use your work however it likes, and then states in its Privacy Ppolicy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the…

> Well, first off, Google has a privacy policy [1] where they commit to not publishing my entire works without my consent. It doesn't say that anywhere. The Privacy Policy covers "…

>Google specifically enumerates the rights that you're granting them They sure do. It just turns out one of these rights is that they can use your content for promotional purposes …

Right, so native code generated by Go probably needs some kind of runtime initialization before it can even start executing.

Well given that the current runtime (written in C) doesn't have a runtime, I would assume there wouldn't be one, as Go compiles down to native code just like C does, using the same…

"What's changed in the last decade?" Uh...the need for highly scalable web servers handling tens/hundreds of thousands of lightweight, I/O bound, concurrent requests?

Does anyone know why the Go runtime is written in C? The FAQ says it is to get around bootstrapping, but that does not seem obvious, as the Go compiler (6g) is written in C, so why…

"You are saying that Agile is supposed to mean programming in Ruby instead of Java?" Of course not. But in my experience and observations, corporate IT programmers, especially thos…

Why don't you go back in time and tell that to Napoleon. And Genghis Khan.

I could not possibly agree more. Like many early Agile adopters I have been shocked and saddened by what it has become. I think the problem is that brainfucked corporate IT program…

When the oil runs out.

I remember watching another video about the Falcon Heavy Rocket, and how it was designed with a large number of small rockets cones at the bottom, so a certain number can die yet t…

Yep. I don't even use/like Facebook, but I just deleted my 10 year old Yahoo account in protest (in truth it was only a secondary account after Google, but still).