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I suppose Hacker News is not interested in Mentifex...

> Is imperative programming more intuitive to people than functional programming? If so, is it because it matches the way our brains are configured, or because it’s simply the most common form of programming?

(I think) It's not because of brains or abundance, it's because of the human language.

> How far should we go to match people’s natural processes versus trying to change the way people think about programming?

Economically, it is your time (of one person only) versus the time of potentially thousands of users. What do you think?

> How impactful are comments in understanding a program? Variable names? Types? Control flow?

Ideally, I think, comments would not be contained in the source code, polluting the general vision of its structure, but would be placed outside, as documentation.

For variable names, as long as its meaning/use is made immediately clear on first sight, without needing to figure out its frequency pattern or see its declaration to figure it out (maybe placing it in a separate place from the code, again), the variable name shouldn't matter much (as long as its not purposefully unrelated or obscure).

I think it would be useful to have something like a "live documentation" in a REPL (commands like man commands documenting each part of the language (and program), each word an entry, non-sequentially accesible). That is something I would do if I were to design a programming language, a structure called a "dictionary" documenting each and every reserved/defined word in the environment.

Lol I'm not impressed by anything at this point. I thought it was clear from the start, they don't care about you, you're the "useds" of facebook, as Stallman would say. But still, every new evidence that comes up confirming this must make into a separate headline, and we'll keep on getting plenty of those until... I don't know. Until it either dies or rebrands itself well enough to pretend all of this never happened, I suppose.

I went from 66 kg to ~55kg, eating only one lunch a day plus some fruits. I think I've gotten way too thin, that around 58 kg would have been better, and that's why I'm thinking of starting to supplement. I also have kept on exercising plenty, muay thai and boxing, and that might be why I've lost this much weight, even though I wasn't obese when I started.

I have been on a reduced calorie diet (one meal a day) since the start of february and have lost over 10 kg of both fat and muscle.

Why this fad with naming birds as persons?

Has cynicism gone too far? In bureaucratic jobs maybe you can fake your way through, but in many other positions any charade eventually is exposed.

Why this fad with naming apps as persons? Found this: http://fortune.com/2014/12/22/startup-names-human/

This is basically combinatorial contextless. A method of ranking and sorting the generated ideas is needed.