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That seems to be a keyword, yes. So 4.

And I think 3 in Java's? public, class and static.

Well, yes :) And 4GL languages are actively being used to create new business, so who knows what's dead and what's not.

Perhaps the whole programming field is just a bunch of undead things. Sometimes a bunch of living things stumble upon the field, but they're soon infected...

Yeah, when I wrote the comment, I kinda guessed that people would point out the zombie-like state of living for these languages. That's only barely being alive, though, and very much faded.

(I did have C in there but edited it out. I don't think that's a dead language yet.)

Pascal, perl, ASP, every ML, Fortran, Cobol, Eiffel, Modula, all "4GL" languages.

No, more like 15-20%. If you're getting 10%, you're being ripped off.

27% in that test is pretty good, though. That's 750K requests per second.

That test says nothing about real world performance though, that's true. The db read and write benchmarks are more useful.

Swift is a brilliant environment. Always good to see more adoption for it.

http://swift.org

I simplify it as an easier Rust that comes with an official REPL.

Ubuntu LTS is a first-class citizen for Swift, and some Linux distros have unofficial packages. It includes a cli application like many other frameworks do.

If that's true, it's the fault of everyone in their 20s who did jack shit in their youth to protect their future selves. Unions, guilds, worker protection laws. That sorta stuff.

But it's Communist China, so perhaps not.

2. Here's one nerd who made the exact opposite jump from Android to iOS in 2017-2018, also from misc Linux machines to Apple. But personal anecdotes don't really matter, do they?

After half a year of this, I'm quite happy. The competition will have to make some miracles to make me want to change back.

Each of my Androids have, with the exception of the absolutely brilliant LG Nexus 5.

The iPhone SE has a headphone jack. The latest leaks seem to indicate that the upcoming SE 2 will also. But perhaps the screen size is too small for kids.

My anecdote is that coffee definitely has something besides caffeine that affects the central nervous system. I tend to quit drinking coffee few times a year, and I replace it with heavy tea drinking.

No amount of tea makes the withdrawal symptoms go away. After a week, the physical effects (headache, tiredness) thankfully fade, but nothing seems to help with the depression that comes in a month. Due to that, I haven't really gone beyond a month of not using coffee -- it just doesn't seem worth it.

I would find the people who think that coffee is not a narcotic amusing if they weren't so fucking serious. I really wish there was more scientific data on this. Seems like all studies just focus on the caffeine effects.

This study showed, though, that 0-100g of alcohol per week is somewhat safe. That makes the safe upper limit about a wine bottle per week, or a single beer every day.

The problem alcohol shares with other hard narcotics, of course, is that tolerance builds up and the consumption has a tendency to grow.

"Though the 100% figure covers only Apple’s own operations–not those of of the suppliers and contract manufacturers which do much of the work of bringing its ideas to life–it’s also convinced 23 companies in its supply chain to sign a pledge to get to 100% renewable energy for the portion of their business relating to Apple products. "

They're doing a massively good thing here. I'm a bit more glad now for choosing Apple.

I'm not yet sure if "server-side Rust" is actually viable. Some of the language concepts are too complicated, and the obvious benefits (no need for GC and better control for concurrency) don't seem to apply to many server-side things.

Server-side Swift doesn't suffer from these problems, IMHO, but admittedly its Linux support is still a bit questionable, whereas Rust's Linux support is obviously superb. Swift on Linux probably works the best if you're able to use the officially supported LTS distribution, which currently is Ubuntu 16.04.

Perhaps they'd be worried that their tool would be used primarily for narcotics trade. Oh wait, they already have zcash. Well, perhaps it's the redundancy between those two.

> But many of these decisions-- dropping Google Reader, the trend to ditch the headphone jack, and now Slack killing IRC-- seem to be made for no apparent logic reason, and giving some bullshit excuse like "security reasons."

Google Reader didn't bring Google more money, even indirectly. Removing the headphone jack leads to less cables and less open holes in the device. Slack's IRC gateway wasn't very good, and nobody used it, plus its existence allows easy circumvention of some paid tier features, like logging.

Everything has a reason, even if you might not like the reasoning.

People move around, and that's fine. After two decades of mostly using Linux, I just made a leap of faith into the walled garden of Apple, replacing pretty much every Linux and Windows box with either nothing (the best choice!) or a Mac.

It's just a month in, but I'm quite happy. Everything works and everything is pretty. I can concentrate on important things, and of course on social media shilling.

Because that sameness is irrelevant, and building something on it decreases clarity. Just because you can show something in mathematical terms doesn't make it useful.

You (and the other repliers) seem to be confused. It's not that I don't understand monads, it's that I don't value them. It seems obvious to me that they serve mostly to harm code quality.

> Monads can help solve certain classes of problems in a uniform way.

You solve 3 completely different problems using the exactly same code and have the gall to call this less complicated? I'm forced to sometimes wonder whether functional programmers have any idea how to create software.

If this was a joke I didn't understand, I apologise for my thickness.

I've been programming in languages that have them, and almost every time I have to read code that has a ternary operator, I have to stop and think what's the condition, what's the "true" branch and what's the "false" branch.

This is even worse in languages that have truthy values, since you don't even have the "== True" thing to help.

> 7. There’s no ternary (?:) operator.

I didn't realise there are people who prefer this thing.

Generally speaking, what should we think about languages that are theoretically weak but are quite successful? Does that imply that the theories are wrong?

Slack's pricing is absurd.

You guys oughta think about pricing. We just moved, a bit reluctantly, to Microsoft Teams (essentially free because existing MS subscription) because even Hipchat was way too expensive.

Does Stride really need to be $36/user/year, and double that if we need SAML?

You think the lack of technical innovation is what makes products fail? Seems to me that it's actually the opposite that's true.

c) Group chats cannot be secured

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