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I read through this article twice and I don't get it. I feel as though I don't have enough background to understand the arguments presented.

I use Ruby all the time and love it; can someone simplify the main points of this article? My impression is that what the author wants and what I want from a programming language are different, but I don't want to write off his arguments because of my lack of understanding.
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It's a semantics for the term "exists", not a claim about the properties anything -- including the sqrt of 2 -- must have. Including being unique.

"x exists" just means "there is an x" which just means that we can identify an object not that we can only identify one alone.

There is a number which satisfies x^2==2 is just the claim that "there is an x such that x satisifes x^2==2". The claim is not "there is an x such that x uniquely satisfies x^2==2"

Uniqueness is an additional property to the bare quantification claim.

That my point. All this discussion is about additional properties existing things have.

My point is that the bare term "exists" includes no properties its just, if you like, the beginning of the recipe with the ingredients to follow. Its a placeholder for what you will later say.

The objector in the article seems to be saying the sqrt of 2 doesnt exist not because "there was no recipe" but because it didn't have his favorite ingredient.

To say something doesn't exist is to say "there is no recipe for it". Santa Clause doesn't exist because there is nothing which includes the ingredients "a magical man", etc.
> Population increased also

If this were really the problem, it would be pretty easy to solve... (HINT: this isn't really the problem!)
Having messed with Haskell I'd say the hidden data in OOP becomes "public" and that data is processed in pipelines.

In C# you sometimes objects with just public getters/setters and static methods using linq manipulating those objects. This is kind of a functional style.
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I wrote my own functional, Haskell-like, language, and after a couple of years and seeing a couple more code bases in various languages, I am now starting to firmly believe that currying should be strictly avoided (or at least highly discouraged). Obscure symbol operators with operator precedence are also a clear readability problem.

But unlike what this article suggests, these traits are not essential to functional programming. As long as you stick to functions which given values return other values, and your language has support for passing functions to other functions as well, you can reap most of the benefits of functional programming.
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Pretty sure there's an option to change the skip method, and shortcut keys are definitely configurable.
Okay. He spent more time on his argument than you did countering it. Care to elaborate? It’s not self-evident to me that you’re right.
I did try to tell a story, but I don't think I succeeded as well as I would have liked. It definitely does jump around more than it should. It's hard to cover the important bits and link them seamlessly together. I'm just not that good a writer.
hey pka,

some comments here mention that they've been doing ruby for years and never even heard of poodr. i think that's less of a point.

it sounds more like you feel stifled at your current job. there's no right answer when it comes to a software stack and it doesn't sound like your coworkers are excited about the same things you are. it doesn't have to be that way! i hope you find a new consulting (or full time gig) that stimulates you intellectually. merry christmas and happy new year.
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Yes, very interesting, thank you.

We're in investment discussions right now and while not in an identical position by any means I agree with some of the thinking here.
A much more helpful title would be "Webext equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons" instead of "Firefox Stuff".
While having some cynicism over Tory deals regarding NHS data is understandable, and it reads like the agreement with DeepMind was not up to the standards expected, it seems to me less about a political party trying to "monetize" patients as it is an NHS trust trying to maximize what they can deliver in the context of limited resources.

I had a conversation with a representative from a medical analytics company just before Christmas who portrayed radiographers and others who would have their jobs threatened by advances in medical imaging analytics as being obstructionist. It's also a common trope to hear that the Trusts do endless proof-of-concepts and redevelop solutions other Trusts have already created due to political power dynamics.

While entering a situation where Google has monopolistic power over data or analytics would be undesirable, I think it's unreasonable to say that the only solution for the NHS is to feed more money into the present dysfunctional system. I personally find it quite distasteful that we can't bring in cheaper, more accurate solutions with fewer barriers just because they come from the private sector.
Western Electric was Bell's manufacturing division, and they had machines running Unix earlier, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers
> Looking at it with modern eyes, it would be easy to make said machinery operate like an amplifier of labor. Meaning that for each unit of labor used to operate the machine, the owner would get a multiple of said labor out.

I agree with this, but trying to look at the issue with Marx's eyes I think he saw the subject like this (I'm no Marxist, nor an economist, just making an educated guess): Of course that the machines help their owners (the capitalists) make more money in absolute terms (the amplifier of labor you mention), but at the end of the day what matters for a capitalist (and is one of the essences of capitalism, I think) is that he should make more money compared to the other capitalists.

Now, I think Marx says that all capitalists (as a class) can have access to the same machines -> they can all enjoy the same returns caused by said newer, better machines -> so technology/science progress is no differentiator in the long run between capitalists, because the new, better machines bring them the same rate of profits (of course a company or two can go bankrupt if they haven't modernized fast enough, but we're talking about more general stuff). What I think Marx is saying is that the main (and in his view the only one that counts) differentiator between capitalists consists in how well they can "squeeze" out labor out of the, well, labor-classes (industrial workers back in Marx's time). And if you look at the economic history of the past 25 years (give or take) you can see that the grand winner of this period, China, is actually a capitalist country (I'm ignoring its one-party rule thing) that knew pretty damn well how to squeeze out labor out of its citizens/workers, and also that the United States has had a better economic run compared to Europe also because it treats its workers worse (and unfortunately people over here in Europe have started noticing this and have started copying the US).

> From that he concluded that it would actually be in the best interest of industrial capital to collaborate with labor in a common front against finance, but that sadly they would side with finance capital until it was too late.

That sounds pretty interesting, I've never got to read his Capital II and III, I guess I'll give them a try.
> we are never satisfied with a stable standard of living

...yes we are. Thankfully, nowadays more and more people "drop out" of "traditional media exposed society" and the brainwashing is starting to wear off. Too bad we're at the end of Homo Sapiens' days and there will not be any benefit to anyone though anyway (or maybe too good, a species as miserable as ours deservs being accelerated into extinction anyway)
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> aren't particularly fond of deciphering complicated math equations?

But it's not complicated. One of the great things about mathematical expressions is that they are simple. But two of the other great things are that they are concise and unambiguous, and it's those two that unfortunately lead many students to think they are complicated.
Ah, that makes much more sense. I actually googled to try to backstop this claim and only found other similar claims. Should have known better!
Crap, you're right. I thought I covered it earlier in the book, but I really don't. I do expand the acronym earlier, but that's way too early to be relevant here. I'll fix that. Thanks!
> Some might say that the ultimate criteria to judge a language should be how quickly an inexperienced user starts to be fluent in it.

The ultimate criterion to judge a formal language (such as a programming language) is how easily anyone (regardless of expertise level!) can express their ideas in a precise and unambiguous fashion in it.

It isn't clear that this criterion favors any known programming style.

Edit: grammar
Yeah it's more of a thing to say when you can't think of anything else..
Priorities. He realized that buzzwords are more important than multithreading.
Not to sidetrack the conversation, but will you be announcing anything regarding the GraalVM? It seems like there is something announced every year, would love to hear the progress from last year
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>and the details of the process of its creation, get little page space in the book .

I read it a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy but I remember being very intrigued by the lack of description of the creature.

IIRC, some kind of 'golem' made from base ingredients was more in line with what is described in the novel than a mesh of dead flesh.
What we desperately need is a way to reverse-brainwash the workaholics that spoil the labor market by willing to work more than 6 hrs a day. If we could figure out a clever way to penalize them for working more we could damn enjoy the heaven-on-earth that current technology should afford us all (now that we seem to have figured out how to stop population growth too)...
The main thing I miss is "It's All Text!", which the creator / maintainer indicated was impossible to port away from Legacy, in no small part due to the security aspects of it.

I really, truly, hate inputting anything more than a couple of lines in to websites. Worse when you're fighting WYSIWYG editors, fixed box widths. Even worse than that is when you spend 20 minutes filling in the box, hit submit and find your session timed out.

"It's All Text" allowed me to just click an "edit" button beside the text box, go edit the thing in my favourite text editor, hit save and then go click submit in the browser. If the site screwed up somehow, the text was still open in my text editor.
Not too familiar with Rspec but I know Groovy (a compiled language) has testing frameworks like Spock that I believe are based on Rspec.
> J is even worse. I stared at the J code for a full minute without any comprehension of the language syntax or what was being accomplished. That code isn't readable or maintainable. It is bad code.

But why does code need to be readable to someone who doesn't know the language? Yes, it's true that Python and some other languages are pretty readable even to people who haven't written any of that language, and that is a nice feature in many contexts... nevertheless, if I'm hiring a Python programmer, I'm either going to hire someone with experience in Python, or I'm going to accept that they're not going to hit the ground running and be massively productive right out of the gate... so how is it really such a loss to write in J and accept that non-J programmers won't understand my code?
It is brilliant... but I think it's a false dichotomy. I'm sure code can be clever and easy to debug. If it's designed in a way that is impossible to debug is it really that clever? I've been using react and redux a lot lately, and the design patterns make the code much easier to debug, and I'm not experienced enough (and probably not even clever enough) to have written them myself. It's like saying that smart people always use big words and hard to parse sentences - it's more of a display of cleverness than actual cleverness.
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I think the point is that technology is pulling us apart, not bringing us closer, and that's actually not a bad thing? I'm honestly unsure if there's a more profound point being made, and it definitely comes off as the Postmodern Essay Generator trained on a different bag of words.
But if you don't know Chinese, it would take quite a compelling argument to convince you to give it a serious try, no? If you're not in China, why not continue in English?

Of course leaning more math isn't nearly as hard as Chinese (for the non-Chinese), but this analogy isn't working in your favor.
FYI, this is Hell to scroll through in Chrome on my Pixel.
Keeping a phone for five years isn't something I'd want considering the rate of performance improvement. A five year old iPhone would be an iPhone 5. The improvements in CPU/GPU since then are fairly astounding. Going from an A6 dual-core at 1.3GHz to an A11 six-core at 2.39GHz is just nuts. One is 32nm, the other 10nm.

Smartphones are the one area in computing that seem to still be having huge jumps in performance compared to desktop/laptop computers.
FWIW, it's more of a "simplicity" choice - it is entirely possible to keep mutations reactive in React with libraries like MobX - it's just extra functionality that React doesn't ship out of the box but it works just fine without a borrow checker.
> Marx's writings around the working day are built on the assumption that wages will be set at the level necessary for the worker to survive long enough to turn up to work the following day rather than according to the perceived value of their labour time by the highest bidder, and that because of this near-universal day rate for undifferentiated "labour power", employers' main route to improving profitability would be extending the working day, with no meaningful proportion of the workforce having the ability to change this arrangement

Dude this sounds incredibly close the experience of American retail workers nowadays.
But Santa DOES exist. He doesn't exist as a physical entity made of real atoms, but neither does the square root of two (or any other number). Numbers exist as mathematical constructs, and Santa exists as a fictional character.
So then it's because of a lack of unions. Collective bargaining could give employees more power in the negotiations to reduce the number of hours worked, while still keeping a living wage and benefits.
People that enjoy living in countries with strong union law usually get to choose, unless they rather keep quiet instead of reporting abuses to the respective work authorities.

This includes IT related jobs.

If people on US and other countries want these benefits, choose to get strong instead of demonizing unions.
> Having the state mutable would also need some kind of locking between the render view and updateState method

You may want to brush up on Rust, the language has been designed explicitly to deal with these kinds of situations.
That's what the J sample is doing (minus the filtering)
Basically, get a feel for the ontology of knowledge and knowledge systems.
>good analogy in the real world: If you have 0 apples, you do not have any apples.

unless I owe some apples - in which case, by your "real-world" test, I do have some?
Yeah I’ll try to post something to http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/graal-dev
Your solution is much cleaner to me, except (not really knowing Python) it looks like it might have a bug, in that the `while True` will never terminate.
It is the people getting together that gives the unions that power in first place.

Law is meaningless if workers don't make it happen.
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>But no, not everybody finds sugar more addictive than cocaine.

Not everyone finds cigarettes addictive either. I smoked quite a bit when I was younger, off and on, and never felt the need to smoke ever.

Doesn't this same logic apply universally then? That every chemical reaction affects everyone differently? But no matter what, there are some chemicals that are addictive to the majority of people?

>...explicit acknowledgement and context that the subjective experience of all of these things varies dramatically from individual to individual.

I agree, that especially in this area, depression, life change, etc... that it would be best to couch everything with the "doesn't work for everyone" kind of phrase, but isn't this redundant? What solution for any problem works for everyone?

I think that in this case, everyone in the world has something they don't like about their life, and have a hard time facing it. Because it simply hurts to face your problems.

How do you suggest to people that if they want their pain to go away, they should do something to that adds more pain to their life?

The easy answer I found was to not worry about it, people who will see the value see it, and those that don't are not in the mind set to see it no matter how it is written. Maybe I am wrong, but in other comments here it seems that people get quite upset about saying you can change yourself.

Do you really think it's possible to get through to everyone? Or would just changing how things are written would help people that would otherwise ignore it?
The scabs of our times. They need to be socially ostracised for their complicity with the ruling class. But instead we congratulate them on their good work ethic...
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Because every serious study of the matter has shown that pretty much every metric of quality of life is negatively impacted by inequality.
Why not both in combination? Use one to make the current system unviable, which forces everyone onto the new system.
Don't be so defensive, it is just a programming language.

> Don't say Rust is useless

Read it again. What I said was that the complexity added by the concept of ownership is not a worth the benefit of not having a garbage collector, except in a few cases.

I am not necessarily comparing it with Ruby. I am comparing it with languages equally fast, Go, OCaml, Haskell, that are garbage collected.

Instead of telling me what to say and not, why do you try to convince me that my argument is wrong. That's what this forum is about, no?
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I want to concur with others, big fan of your work dude. Parent comment is being rather thankless to put it mildly
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Then later, I learned to shoplift from a friend (4th grade) and what did we steal? Candy.
Thanks. Rubiest here for a decade and hadn't heard of it.
When I saw the work being done with adding web assembly support to rust I though it was cool but I never really put much thought into how far it could be taken. Seeing projects like this is really great and makes me realize just how much room there is for using rust for web front
ends. Given all the consideration for performance that the web has needed recently, I am excited to see what is possible with wasm and rust in the future.

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I remember the basic essay plan our English teacher had cajoled us to adopt in High School (which I graduated from almost nineteen years ago, frighteningly enough, at the tail-end of the typographical era of text).

1. Introduction: Tell us what you're going to say.

2. Body: List your facts, create a sub-list of those facts that you are going to argue from, argue from them, undermine yourself by introducing the facts you weren't going to argue from and explore how adopting those changes your conclusion, explain why you chose to exclude those other facts to begin with and thus invalidate the counter-argument (while have shown yourself to be receptive to it).

3. Conclusion: Tell us what you said, and tell us how one could go about settling controversies that arise between yourself and somebody else who reached a different conclusion.
WASM is just something that can run compiled code in the browser. You can communicate with the Javascript environment. You cannot access the JS libraries directly, but you can with thin bridges.

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I have a similar set of unpublished notes, ramblings and draft articles on similar subjects and endlessly delay to push them out. My personal conclusion is that Ruby is an appealing language but numerous problematic areas pervasive to the core, the code, and the community can (not automatically) add real, damaging weight to a project.

Those notes aren't just rants, as I'm quite the constructive person and been set to research them and address some, here's an example: https://github.com/lloeki/pak/blob/master/README.md

Unfortunately there is no chance most of the issues will ever see any fix, which makes me wary to use or recommend Ruby for new projects (but I do use it still, only cautiously so and well aware of its limitations)
Can you tell us what country you are in? If the US, who supports the phone?

Thanks!
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