thowfaraway | 6 years ago | on: Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Of course you are right, but it all started with the tight integration with Jetbrains editing package.
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thowfaraway | 6 years ago | on: Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Solid tooling can really boost a language. Clojure advocates should internalize that.
thowfaraway | 6 years ago | on: Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
The Poker prototype could be from 30 years ago, and drops to 15FPS on any game action! Arcadia is a neat toy at this point, but run far away if you are looking to do real world commercial development.
thowfaraway | 6 years ago | on: Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
I think you are seriously overselling the talk, and what Arcadia is ready for.
you: Here's a talk on making real world commercial games with Clojure
video: dozens of game jam games have been made
thowfaraway | 6 years ago | on: California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked
That's atypical of most high income, high quality districts in California. E.g., Palo Alto is currently fighting with Stanford over a housing expansion because of the impact of additional students at local schools.
thowfaraway | 8 years ago | on: Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web
Eli, I think you started with a reasonable question, but then followed it up with an unnecessarily passive aggressive question.
thowfaraway | 8 years ago | on: Create Anime Characters with A.I.
Maybe some of the girl programmers that Google hasn't hired should make a site that generates sexy anime boys?
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
I've been using HN daily for about 8 years. There are about 5 usernames I recognize because I'm wowed by their knowledgable responses. Then there are about 5 usernames I recognize because I go wow, that guy is always an argumentative abrasive jerk. Yours is one of the 5 in the second category. Your need to include the Mencken quote is a small example of what pushes you down into that category. Perhaps the reason you find it difficult to make friends in the real world isn't race, class, segregation, or language, but personality. People who lead with positivity, and the expectation that will be able to make friends probably do a lot better at it.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: First they came for the Iranians
Hmm, Iran actively supports ~100 Shiite terror groups in Syria and Iraq. If you speak Arabic, here is an article in Al-Hayat.
http://www.alhayat.com/Articles/9542195/
And of course Hezbollah in Lebanon.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: First they came for the Iranians
Because if you read it, it doesn't close access, it demands background information on visa applicants. Saudi Arabia is already compliant.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: First they came for the Iranians
It would be healthier for everyone if there was less speculative outrage. This doesn't affect anyone in the country. It just says if you are trying to get a visa from a country where we think there is a terrorism risk, that country needs to be able to provide screening info on the person, or else we won't provide a visa. It is targeting Syrian refugees, not Iranian PhDs.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
So if we have an http page with a password field that posts via https, it will be marked non-secure?
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
It is juvenile, and hurts the project. Too bad because it is pretty cool.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: Harvard Museums Releases Online Catalogue of 32,000 Bauhaus Works
Classic example of what's bad about modern web site design. 1.5MB of javascript and misc overhead with a spinner over a blank page to load < 1KB of text and 5 small thumbnails.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
Tax receipts are low in the midwest / south also because tax rates are low. This study rewards California and NY for having extremely high state taxes - it doesn't reflect actual federal dependency.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
That's only 1 of 3 pieces of data. If they only used the one you mention, then you wouldn't get the red/blue divide, you'd instead get a small/large state divide.
What this study does to get the red/blue divide dividing federal revenues by state revenues. So low tax, low spending states look bad because the Federal inflow is a bigger percentage of total spending.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
Maybe you are being willfully ignorant, or maybe you live in such a monoculture, different ideas are like a foreign language you can;t deal with or understand?
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
Can you show the calculation where subsidies to food are greater than the cost of regulation of food?
Sugar is particularly regulated, with the government strict quotas and tariffs on imports, and domestic allotments to produces. If you produce more than your allotment, it is illegal to sell in the US. The whole scheme is to hold prices high to support famers (agribusiness really), not low.
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
From 1876 to 1992, 116 years in a row, Mississippi had a Democratic governor. Do you think it is poor because The last 2 guys running the state were Republicans, or that 116 years of policy, and the legacy slavery on top of that?
thowfaraway | 9 years ago | on: The effects of living in a poor neighborhood
Why would you expect them to do better after centuries of being taught to obey
The insinuation that a reason blacks don't do better because they are trained or bred to be obedient is pretty gross, and not that different from the racist "docile negro" rhetoric of a century ago. Why not start with expectations that anyone can better themselves, regardless of race? If you want someone to move up, do you think they have a better chance of doing it if society tells them the can, or they can't?