shallowthought's comments

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Motivation – Keli Language

> My main argument -- which I think is being lost here -- is that Ocaml isn't IDE unfriendly, and especially not so unfriendly that an entirely new language is needed just so that FP and IDEs can happily coexist.

Right, and I guess my counterargument would be that, yes it is, and you don't need to resort to logic to see it - just do a little googling about its poor adoption.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: The demise of the second-hand bookshop

Don't worry - it's fine.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups

Which is a process that happens all the time... in movies. In reality, it's chaos.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors

This is the most irritating paywall I've ever seen. Why did you submit this?

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

Or have never been in a situation where their mother, father, or themself has a serious medical condition requiring over $1,000,000 and many years of fighting to treat it. "I can't be bought" is a failure of imagination.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden

I think it's impossible to have a fair trial when the guy has made an entire career out of detailing precisely what illegal actions he has taken.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

Because they were bypassing the approval process, which exists for a good reason, otherwise they wouldn't expend so many resources on it, sorry for being reasonable and obvious, we can all go back to scouring the shadows now.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

I love how this asshole is clearly just trying to modify policy in reaction to what he thinks people wants, rather than doing the right thing from day one, because he obviously has no idea whatsoever how to do the right thing.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior

Has Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg in particular, ever really made a secret of being a ruthless anti-competitive asshole? I always thought that was his one redeeming trait - the fact that he was honest about it. True, he occasionally claimed in interviews to be about "bringing people together", but I always felt he went out of his way to make sure everyone listening knew he didn't mean it.

shallowthought | 5 years ago | on: Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018)

Or maybe they hired a bunch of engineers to move fast and break things, promoted them, and now those same people are leading their engineering efforts and trying really, really hard to do something they suck at, which is writing maintainable code.