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macmac··on Bill Gates' Twitter also hacked
What is going on here? This post was up to 60 points, and on the front page. Now it is gone and down to 26 points. I don't think this is reasonable modding.
macmac··on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end
For a non-Kaysian interpretation of object-oriented.
macmac··on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
It is based on practical experience from multiple companies who ended up in precisely this situation.
macmac··on A History of Clojure [pdf]
And a pretty but impractical number system.
macmac··on A History of Clojure [pdf]
The best thing is that keeping it that way takes a minimum of moderation.
macmac··on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
Have fun when Larry decides he want another yacht and his license goons come by to exploit the lock in you gave created for yourself.
macmac··on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
After reading that no serious person could ever dream of having any serious enterprise be based on Oracle DB.
macmac··on Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
Re RabbitMQ, isn't that OPs point.
macmac··on A Counter with the New Recoil – Facebook State Management Library for React
Congratulations to facebook on reinventing Clojure atoms :-)
macmac··on Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
Speaking of aggregation, what motivated the license choice? It appears that only one dependency (Mongooos is GPL), and the choice of GPL will seriously inhibit any adoption of a toolkit like this.
macmac··on A Wrinkle in Clojure
Except (filter odd? [1 2 3 4 5]) does not return a list. It returns a lazy sequence.
macmac··on Consider: Email 2.0
2 features I need: 1) robust group email and 2) copy me out - reverse cc applied to all down thread mails.
macmac··on Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools
There are no immediate promises of such measures being made. Edit: Since this is being downvoted could someone provide a source for such immediate promises? I must have missed it.
macmac··on The World Wants More Danish TV
I would recommend "Follow the Money" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_the_Money_(Danish_TV_se... and "Warrior" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_(miniseries).

"Follow the Money" is incredibly prescient and "Warrior" is fundamentally exciting.

macmac··on LogicBlox – Datalog REPL Tutorial
Not sure, I reported it to LogicBOx who's looking into it.
macmac··on Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
I can certainly recommend the XPS 15 as a dev laptop. Don't get the high end screen it eats battery like crazy. I run Ubuntu as my only OS and it works perfectly out of the box. Keyboard is excellent and the screen is big enough for daily use. USB-C hub works very smoothly.
macmac··on Apple Just Shipped Web Components to Production and You Probably Missed It
Classic Apple. Doesn't work on Linux or Android. "Cannot create Apple ID on this device."
macmac··on The Rainforest Is Teeming with Consciousness
| Panpsychism is an intellectually credible view that can transform our relationship with the natural world.

If that was the case the article would probably have contained at least a sliver of evidence. "Oh, but you just need a healthier relationship with evidence." Apparently a relationship which leads you to entertaining propositions for which there is none.

macmac··on Is Python the Best Programming Language for Startups? – ITChronicles
No.
macmac··on A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist
Netherlands? The article is about Denmark.
macmac··on Oracle Cloud offering two unlimited free compute instances and databases
Desperate much.
macmac··on Margrethe Vestager stays on as EU competition head in blow for tech giants
Although she failed miserably in her recommendation of the recent copyright directive (CDSM). The final Article 17 is a catastrophe.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

macmac··on Single Sign-On demystified: set up a custom SSO using JWT
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

Not a good sign.

macmac··on Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018)
> "In a homoiconic language, the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself."

I believe the author is misreading this definition.

> "First, consider that most languages have a primitive datatype for strings of text"

The defintion says "data structure", not "datatype". A string is a datatype, not a datastructure.

> "Second, for most languages, it is possible to write a parser in that language itself, that stores the resulting abstract syntax tree in a primitive type in the language."

This is completely besides the point as the definition references the "primary representation", not a represenation that can be built using a parser.

macmac··on Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against
> General Intelligence > Lawyers are generally very bright. Law is a tough degree > and a tougher profession. It rewards intellectualism, > continual learning, and adaptability. These are all > traits necessary for learning to code.

This does not match my experience. I have worked in law for 20 years and hired (and fired) many lawyers for top tier companies. I saw some variant of an IQ tests for every one of them. As general rule they were not impressive and significantly below the scores we saw for programmers. The verbal comprehension was generally solid or better, the others not so much.

macmac··on Tardigrades may now be living on Moon
They will be waiting for us when we come back.
macmac··on Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to take the blame
Not that it should not be addressed, but it is still by far the most CO2 efficient mode of transport.
macmac··on Global Passport Power Rank 2019
That appears to be right. At a minimum a neutral color should be applied if the rank has not been assessed.
macmac··on Global Passport Power Rank 2019
Why is Greenland dark grey? Greenlanders are Danish citizens and get (optionally) a variant of the Danish passport with the same privileges and restrictions.
macmac··on Many Swiss farmers use honor system to sell their products
Very common in Denmark too.
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