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futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

People here are just very dramatic. I think I need to not read (or write) HN comments for a long time, there is some serious distorted reality about.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

I'm not really sure what your point is in criticizing "farming" to C.

> This is that culture thing I'm talking about.

You made a false claim. You referred to Python iteration as not generic, when what you really meant is that Python lacks first class monad support.

If you want a monadic programming model, you're not going to be a happy camper in the Python world. But I doubt that comes as a surprise.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

Well that sounds like a personal problem and it has nothing to do with the language. As a counter-anecdote, I've been working on Python projects for over a decade and have yet to experience the draconian linter settings you described.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Death of the Neighborhood Bar

I read this earlier and was sort of speechless.

Now I can't help myself, and must point out that a grave digger in no way contributes to the death of the buried.

Beware the acute and chronic cognitive effects of alcohol abuse.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Death of the Neighborhood Bar

There's quite a class divide between corner pub and brew-pub clientele. It feels like for every trendy brewery thriving, a few anonymous bars are failing. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it is different, and I'm not sure that a popular brew-pub is a useful counterexample to the general decline of dive bars.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Death of the Neighborhood Bar

And you've gotten to the root of the decline of places like pubs: Inflation with mostly stagnant wages. Sure, you can have a "cheap" burger and beer, but more often than not you'll end up eating roadkill and drinking chemicals.

Most people just can't afford to hang out the bar all the time anymore.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Death of the Neighborhood Bar

Agreed, it takes a special kind of asshole to run a bar while "[his] own family has been afflicted by alcoholism."

> Richard had spent untold hours trading stories with friends, cementing connections with them, with the space, and with the city outside. A few people had gathered to continue their remembrance. All changed utterly, everything constant, I ordered a drink from the bar and sat down.

Yea, you killed him. Infuriating.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

> (2) It's arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a "last mile" delivery network at scale.

How is Uber Eats any different from the many other operations strapping boxes to the backs of bicyclists? I don't see anything innovative about Uber's last mile logistics compared to Amazon (who aren't even that great) for instance.

It sounds more like an excuse Uber's leadership would make as they desperately search for profitable business.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates

> evidence for an offense you can't imagine ten years from now.

If your argument rests on future, unknown abuses... I'm afraid that's tin foil territory.

Your comments sound like regurgitated talking points from when Snowden was in the news, so I'm not sure who you think you're educating about fingerprinting, etc. It's been common knowledge for years.

futureastronaut | 6 years ago | on: Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates

I didn't refer to absolute anonymity, but to an anonymous design (anybody can register, without an email even). The point is that it's far easier for INS to troll a place with real identities like Facebook. I don't think the NSA's resources are about to be spent on determining the commenter's Vietnamese parents' identities. If parent were threatening a mass shooting, that would be another story. But as they say, technically correct is the best kind of correct, so kudos.
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