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New comment by lectrick in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

lectrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:57:53 +0000

Evidence?

Also false dichotomy. We do not know the percentage of successful marriages with undiscovered affairs.

New comment by lectrick in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

lectrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:56:43 +0000

Similar to Global Thermonuclear War in the movie WarGames, the only winning move may soon simply be not to play :O

New comment by lectrick in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

lectrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:55:08 +0000

While this sounds sexist, would any husband actually argue against that part? Let's be frank, here

New comment by lectrick in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

lectrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:50:15 +0000

That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy

New comment by lectrick in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

lectrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:48:51 +0000

I actually think this biases mate selection (not necessarily in a good way) toward people of similar or slightly greater/lesser income

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:03:24 +0000

"Throughout its history Norsk Data produced a long string of extremely innovative systems, with a disproportionately large number of world firsts."

Still seems like something worth being proud of. It just got sideswiped by the personal computer industry (a lot of things did).

New comment by lectrick in "Python to OCaml: Retrospective"

lectrick — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:56:41 +0000

Fascinating. I see it as yellow.

This also hints at the "qualia" mystery...

New comment by lectrick in "CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents"

lectrick — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:46:35 +0000

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_convers...

Page 3, point 4:

"Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomenon or known types of aerial vehicles."

Also note the National Security Council directive on the last page.

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 02:07:08 +0000

Don't be jaded! Stay excited! You were way ahead of the curve! ;)

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:11:19 +0000

As someone who has only recently (finally) become disillusioned by OO (especially in larger codebases and/or on programming teams, which both seem to rapidly escalate tech debt and complexity thanks to things like mutability, class reopening and stowing-state-everywhere)... I'm so sorry, man. The difference (which is significant) unfortunately seems to require years of real-world experience with both to see it.

I've been pointing OO people to these thoughts by John Carmack, who is pretty well-respected in the C++ OO community: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pro...

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:05:22 +0000

> I also like the immutable variables aspect.

Elixir has the same immutable variables. I don't know why this is such a misconception. Erlang conflates rebinding and reassignment, Elixir does not, and the tradeoffs seem to (overall) be better in Elixir's case. Here, read the language creators' explanation as to why that is, it's the best:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/01/comparing-elixir-an...

Very succinct and (hopefully) puts this misconception to bed.

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:31:03 +0000

I thought Erlang looked weirder than Elixir (to the extent that I was turned off until Elixir came along), but fortunately, both of our opinions are compatible as everything compiles down to BEAM and is interoperable :)

From a semantic persopective I've found that I almost automatically understand Erlang just from working with Elixir. Some things like OTP are pretty much identical. Plus you get "real" macros :)

New comment by lectrick in "The Story Behind F.lux"

lectrick — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 02:32:58 +0000

"I couldn't be bothered to Google the problem, but based on my sample size of 1, I think your problem doesn't exist"

Thanks for that useful comment, man.

New comment by lectrick in "Why Erlang looks like it does"

lectrick — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:33:05 +0000

This is a quite beautiful post about engineering in general, actually. You try to solve a practical problem as best as you can, and you get sort of an unintended-beneficial-consequences effect and end up creating principles that have a more universally-applicable nature.

I personally hope Elixir helps thrust Erlang into ever more success. (But not so much success that it becomes a victim of it...)

New comment by lectrick in "Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom"

lectrick — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:05:40 +0000

I think physics and art are nearly the perfect potential sources of a good programmer

New comment by lectrick in "Vainglory vs. Clash Royale, and the future of “hardcore” games on mobile"

lectrick — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:03:16 +0000

I could not get into Witcher 1 OR 2.

Witcher 3 is as different from 1 and 2 as Assassins' Creed 2 was different from Assassins' Creed 1. I recommend it

New comment by lectrick in "Angular 2 First App Post-Mortem"

lectrick — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:28:03 +0000

I'm kinda glad I left frontend dev just as JQuery peaked lol

New comment by lectrick in "Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?"

lectrick — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:25:57 +0000

Zynga

And I would personally argue for Microsoft's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish program

New comment by lectrick in "Vainglory vs. Clash Royale, and the future of “hardcore” games on mobile"

lectrick — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:37:50 +0000

Might I recommend Witcher 3 (amazing!) and Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, both of which I enjoyed (slightly) more than FO4 (sadly) and DA:I. They are both also more "mature" games (and TPP is set in 1980's Afghanistan and allows you to collect just-off-chart hits from the 80's to play on your in-game Walkman, which I found rather cool). (I haven't tried JC3 yet, I got halfway through JC2 and then kinda dropped it.)

Now I'm afraid to try Boom Beach lol

New comment by lectrick in "The Apple iPad Pro Review"

lectrick — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:33:45 +0000

/sarcasm