I always want to get code that works, and better yet that works right after successfully compiling. Haskell with its functional style and rigid type system helps me catch the multiple errors that inevitable end up in my code as I write it. I have done multiple programs and libraries in Haskell and I’m pleased with the small chunks of expressive code that come out of these efforts.
Sometimes I have to write verbose monstrosities that do very little in Java. I always dread going back to it. I write many more bugs in Java that I do in Haskell, and fewer get caught at compile time. A Java IDE is where both my productivity and fun go to die.
I agree, it is Draconian, something that Americans don't seem to have a problem with. Seizing his equipment and fining him should be enough. Let's also fix SMTP goddammit. It's getting ridiculous.
I have written Haskoin, a Haskell implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. I have consulted for a large bank and various interested organizations on "blockchain" technology. There is really nothing to see here. Bankers are scared of Bitcoin. They're trying to get some of the attention and changing the tune to that of "blockchain". Some of them believe (or lead others to believe) that they can do something with this blockchain technology, but virtually nobody understand how any of it works. My opinion is that bankers are very specialized salesmen who know about making deals. Bitcoin to them is just a bunch of startups working with blockchain technology, which is treated as some generic buzzword that they can attach to some of their offerings if they just use some setup that has some passing resemblance to the Bitcoin system. It is all very weird, like having a horse attached to a contraption involving pedals on a four-wheeled vehicle and call it a car. In all my time doing consulting around this blockchain stuff I did not find one use case that merited the use of anything remotely resembling Bitcoin. Banks rely on secrecy, identity, and they have to respect lots of different regulations and restrictions, also their software needs to change very often. An open database on the Internet for everyone to see running on very basic stable software is not going to fly for any of their requirements. Blockchains in banks are an oxymoron.
How did an article attempting to praise Java made it to Slashdot. We may not be great fun at parties. We may live in basements. But one thing we do know is our programming languages enough to dislike Java on grounds of its excessively verbose, bureaucratic style, its bloated feel, its appeal to people wearing suits, and its general mediocre feel. Anyone who has hacked Haskell, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, Rust or a number of great programming languages out there knows that Java is just not fun. Go, C++ and JavaScript can all sit next to Java in the mediocre languages bench.
I think that migration should be allowed freely. I also know that some cultures are better than others. Thatâ(TM)s pretty obvious. That theocratic culture that kills and tortures their people is inferior to one who isnâ(TM)t based on religious principles, does not impose capital punishment and is peaceful and prosper.
I see that you think that if you happen to be in a place that embraces a good culture you want to keep people from bad cultures out. I think this is borne out of fear. Good cultures, for the most part, thrive on letting others in. How would you question your religious ideas if you are not exposed to alternate viewpoints? How would you enrich your life with new types of food? How would your political and personal views change to embrace new ideas? You need to have exposure to those.
Bad cultures also need to improve. We are all together on this space ball. If you let many people from bad cultures in where people of good culture live, they are now exposed to new ideas and ways, an exposure which would not happen in any other way. Many will reject their new culture, because bad culture has some stickiness to it, but those that do not will spread the seed of doubt, spark interest, even back home where the bad culture thrives.
Adding to this, bad cultures are rarely universally bad. They bring some valuable ideas, perspectives, that we can import. Even if the ideas are all bad, there will at least be some good food.
Youâ(TM)d be surprised how open people of bad cultures are to new ideas, if you approach them with respect instead of fear and contempt.
Very romantic description of nationalism, the actual political ideology that upholds those values you described. I think it is in decline in Europe. There were some problems with it during the first half of the twentieth century.
Copyright law is a ridiculous monster these days. All effort and energy wasted in this case is bewildering. People spent many years studying this case to free this one song, to prove that it isn’t “owned” by anyone. This is ridiculous, a hundred years after who wrote the melody died. We are holding our culture, our art, at ransom in the hands of faceless greedy corporate entities, for the benefit of nobody. Copyright was originally meant to encourage more art to be created, not this.
This seems to me like a case of law against people. It is my opinion that intellectual property law needs to be significantly scaled back, with the goal of eventually abolishing altogether, so that projects like Google Books can flourish. The benefits for humanity as a whole are too great to ignore. I would advocate to reduce the time it takes for a copyrighted work to become public domain to something like five years. With most works under public domain, the availability of art, literature, technology, would be immense, and enrich our species beyond belief.
I stand corrected. I never tried it in Chromium. It does indeed work in my Linux box without Flash with that browser. It doesn't work without Flash in Firefox on Linux though.
I use Ubuntu, and I keep my laptop up-to-date with the latest version. I do not generally go for the Beta versions, unless reviews say that it is stable enough. Usually performance and stability improve significantly between versions. On servers, I keep the latest LTS version, and install security updates regularly.
When I say it copies the bad things from the USA, I mean the general tendency to punish very harshly in what may seem to be complete disregard for the human nature of the punished person, very often for non-violent offenses, or other antisocial behaviour that is more easily tolerated in other developed nations.
Nonetheless, I stand corrected, and copyright infringement, although not punished with prison, still commands very large fees, and the media industry has been known to prosecute even 12-year-old girl. I still find it stupefying that they insisted on a settlement instead of dropping the case immediately after they found out who was responsible for the “offense”.
I certainly hope the UK does not go down this road. It is like making manufacturing refrigerators illegal because it leaves ice sellers out of a job. This is retrograde. The industry should just start to accept that the Internet means copying things, and that is good. Ten years in jail for putting a film online? The UK is copying the bad things from the USA.
The QuickSort code published by the commenter to whom I replied was incomplete. Here is the correct code: http://lpaste.net/131815. Here is also an alternative implementation that performs better, since it does not do two list traversals per sorting operation: http://lpaste.net/131814. Note: The problem with the code in the original comment that I was replying to is due to the way that Slashdot parsed it.
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I always want to get code that works, and better yet that works right after successfully compiling. Haskell with its functional style and rigid type system helps me catch the multiple errors that inevitable end up in my code as I write it. I have done multiple programs and libraries in Haskell and I’m pleased with the small chunks of expressive code that come out of these efforts. Sometimes I have to write verbose monstrosities that do very little in Java. I always dread going back to it. I write many more bugs in Java that I do in Haskell, and fewer get caught at compile time. A Java IDE is where both my productivity and fun go to die.
I agree, it is Draconian, something that Americans don't seem to have a problem with. Seizing his equipment and fining him should be enough. Let's also fix SMTP goddammit. It's getting ridiculous.
You are now going to the Island.
I have written Haskoin, a Haskell implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. I have consulted for a large bank and various interested organizations on "blockchain" technology. There is really nothing to see here. Bankers are scared of Bitcoin. They're trying to get some of the attention and changing the tune to that of "blockchain". Some of them believe (or lead others to believe) that they can do something with this blockchain technology, but virtually nobody understand how any of it works. My opinion is that bankers are very specialized salesmen who know about making deals. Bitcoin to them is just a bunch of startups working with blockchain technology, which is treated as some generic buzzword that they can attach to some of their offerings if they just use some setup that has some passing resemblance to the Bitcoin system. It is all very weird, like having a horse attached to a contraption involving pedals on a four-wheeled vehicle and call it a car. In all my time doing consulting around this blockchain stuff I did not find one use case that merited the use of anything remotely resembling Bitcoin. Banks rely on secrecy, identity, and they have to respect lots of different regulations and restrictions, also their software needs to change very often. An open database on the Internet for everyone to see running on very basic stable software is not going to fly for any of their requirements. Blockchains in banks are an oxymoron.
Here I have the world’s smallest violin, and I’m playing it only for you.
I am Swiss. Switzerland provides safe haven for plenty of refugees: https://www.statista.com/stati...
How did an article attempting to praise Java made it to Slashdot. We may not be great fun at parties. We may live in basements. But one thing we do know is our programming languages enough to dislike Java on grounds of its excessively verbose, bureaucratic style, its bloated feel, its appeal to people wearing suits, and its general mediocre feel. Anyone who has hacked Haskell, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, Rust or a number of great programming languages out there knows that Java is just not fun. Go, C++ and JavaScript can all sit next to Java in the mediocre languages bench.
My productivity would be exactly zero if I could not log into the places I need for work using the 2FA token on my smartphone.
I think that migration should be allowed freely. I also know that some cultures are better than others. Thatâ(TM)s pretty obvious. That theocratic culture that kills and tortures their people is inferior to one who isnâ(TM)t based on religious principles, does not impose capital punishment and is peaceful and prosper. I see that you think that if you happen to be in a place that embraces a good culture you want to keep people from bad cultures out. I think this is borne out of fear. Good cultures, for the most part, thrive on letting others in. How would you question your religious ideas if you are not exposed to alternate viewpoints? How would you enrich your life with new types of food? How would your political and personal views change to embrace new ideas? You need to have exposure to those. Bad cultures also need to improve. We are all together on this space ball. If you let many people from bad cultures in where people of good culture live, they are now exposed to new ideas and ways, an exposure which would not happen in any other way. Many will reject their new culture, because bad culture has some stickiness to it, but those that do not will spread the seed of doubt, spark interest, even back home where the bad culture thrives. Adding to this, bad cultures are rarely universally bad. They bring some valuable ideas, perspectives, that we can import. Even if the ideas are all bad, there will at least be some good food. Youâ(TM)d be surprised how open people of bad cultures are to new ideas, if you approach them with respect instead of fear and contempt.
Very romantic description of nationalism, the actual political ideology that upholds those values you described. I think it is in decline in Europe. There were some problems with it during the first half of the twentieth century.
With a whole new meaning.
Copyright law is a ridiculous monster these days. All effort and energy wasted in this case is bewildering. People spent many years studying this case to free this one song, to prove that it isn’t “owned” by anyone. This is ridiculous, a hundred years after who wrote the melody died. We are holding our culture, our art, at ransom in the hands of faceless greedy corporate entities, for the benefit of nobody. Copyright was originally meant to encourage more art to be created, not this.
This seems to me like a case of law against people. It is my opinion that intellectual property law needs to be significantly scaled back, with the goal of eventually abolishing altogether, so that projects like Google Books can flourish. The benefits for humanity as a whole are too great to ignore. I would advocate to reduce the time it takes for a copyrighted work to become public domain to something like five years. With most works under public domain, the availability of art, literature, technology, would be immense, and enrich our species beyond belief.
...high-definition bionic eye implants to be able to see the difference?
I stand corrected. I never tried it in Chromium. It does indeed work in my Linux box without Flash with that browser. It doesn't work without Flash in Firefox on Linux though.
The Google Play Music service still requires Flash. Google is not completely free of the Flash dependency yet.
Dear RIAA,
tl;dr: Fuck you!
body of response letter
â¦but I can always TRY!
How else am I supposed to watch porn while masturbating in the toilet?
I use Ubuntu, and I keep my laptop up-to-date with the latest version. I do not generally go for the Beta versions, unless reviews say that it is stable enough. Usually performance and stability improve significantly between versions. On servers, I keep the latest LTS version, and install security updates regularly.
When I say it copies the bad things from the USA, I mean the general tendency to punish very harshly in what may seem to be complete disregard for the human nature of the punished person, very often for non-violent offenses, or other antisocial behaviour that is more easily tolerated in other developed nations.
Nonetheless, I stand corrected, and copyright infringement, although not punished with prison, still commands very large fees, and the media industry has been known to prosecute even 12-year-old girl. I still find it stupefying that they insisted on a settlement instead of dropping the case immediately after they found out who was responsible for the “offense”.
I certainly hope the UK does not go down this road. It is like making manufacturing refrigerators illegal because it leaves ice sellers out of a job. This is retrograde. The industry should just start to accept that the Internet means copying things, and that is good. Ten years in jail for putting a film online? The UK is copying the bad things from the USA.
I live in Ireland, you insensitive clod!
You can do this by following instructions online. It does help significantly.
I’m sorry, that was horrible. Let me try again.
The QuickSort code published by the commenter to whom I replied was incomplete. Here is the correct code: http://lpaste.net/131815. Here is also an alternative implementation that performs better, since it does not do two list traversals per sorting operation: http://lpaste.net/131814. Note: The problem with the code in the original comment that I was replying to is due to the way that Slashdot parsed it.