sheldor

There are cross-paradigm languages out there, e.g. Scala.

Reminds me of the Atari Lynx [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx

Can someone explain what is it doing, since it's not working?

Well, this is fantastic. But is it for real?

Maybe some awkward decisions here and there, but the bigger goal of using FF is to save the internet from another monopoly.

It's far less bloated than the (only) competitor, and does most things right.

Probably the most confusing naming scheme in computing history.

Don't get me wrong, I love .net. But if you're not familiar with the technology, it's very (very) confusing.

Use Firefox and save the web

Such a serious matter and no one replies. This is an odd community.

No replies and no conversation on such a serious matter?

"Did I even really know who Richard Stallman was before those emails? To be honest, not really"

Oh, dear

Being smart and being properly (academically) educated are two (very) different things.

About time

I think it's a nice step forward. People with less education can be severely harmed by conspiracy theories.

Yeap. When I got my first android phone Google needed one roundtrip to determine where I live and work.

Sadly yes. Too many apps still in old .net pre-core versions.

It's not a matter of instance or memory. In the aforementioned example it was me trying to print valid JSON from a razor view, so the capital T in "True", was causing me headaches. I wouldn't of course use "toLower" as a workaround and actually found out the best practice. However this incident made me curious regarding this behavior and triggered my little "research".

The function used to return "TrueString" or "FalseString" back then. Nowadays it returns "True" or "False".

While I agree that the quality of .net is impressive, I think that it follows the overall SO problem with outdated answers.

Recently I ran into the 'why Boolean.toString returns an odd "True" value', I visited SO to find a terrific [1] but outdated [2] answer.

Nowadays I shift my teams away from SO. My piece of advice would be to stay away from it (especially junior devs), until they reach a level were they can evaluate and cross check what they are reading.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/491334/why-does-boolean-... [2]https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/atahsch6(v=vs.110)....

Previous version : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651

If someone believes that the earth is flat then he automatically believes that all the pilots in the world know it (and never speak about it). That is illiteracy to say the least.

You certainly don't believe everything you read, but well established knowledge from centuries ago isn't something some lunatic came up with.

So if someone dismisses gravity as a hoax, are we to support him because he is a critical thinker and start jumping off cliffs trying to fly?

Very true, but one also needs to be illiterate to believe such things. And in western countries where people get to go to school (most of them at least), it seems absurd.

So, the only thing left to assume is that they make things for popularity and/or funding.

It might have a shot in making Java fast /sarcasm

I'm pretty sure there is a similar version for modern trash talk (agile methodologies, scrum, growth mindsets e.t.c) but I can't seem to find it.

Does anyone remember?

Integer division will give a rounded result instead of floor

Update: Two posts appeared, both from the last 2 hours. Nothing before.

But it's not slow and unintuitive anymore

> I don't like the explanation as a set of piecewise cases

We don't like it and it's redundant. One should learn the principles and return to this article to read it as a quiz and find out whether he got it or not.

Books like the excellent Javascript Allonge (free to read on leanpub) do a great job on explaining the context. If you need more hardcore stuff, "You don't know JS" will fit you better.

(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with any of the recommended books or their authors or leanpub or whatever.They just helped me a lot; and still do from time to time)

Brought it here in case anyone missed it. You didn't miss it but someone else could.

Actually, the author of the post actually wrote it an I brought it to everyone's attention in case anyone missed it.

(Don't know why I got downvoted though)

> Embrace a growth mindset.

Am I the only one who's sick of this nonsensical lingo?