[Haskell-cafe] You know, I am tired of it.

Stefan Reich stefan.reich.maker.of.eye at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 8 20:31:50 UTC 2015


I know you want to be like me. You will be. Haha

Scala is complex without a purpose.

JavaX is the answer.
Am 08.07.2015 14:57 schrieb "Tony Morris" <tmorris at tmorris.net>:

> You're awesome. I wish I could be like you.
>
> Have you tried Scala?
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Stefan Reich <
> stefan.reich.maker.of.eye at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> So you basically say that open sourcing is very good. It is :) I always
>> work like this now, everything I do in my db (snippets.tinybrain.de) is
>> versioned publicly. Basically, nothing ever breaks, with a little effort.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:20 PM, David Gladstein <gladstein at gladstein.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding the time-varying importance of shit:
>>>
>>> A few years back Blender (www.blender.org) had a major release that
>>> broke everything. The UI changed, so all the tutorials were suddenly wrong
>>> As in, five minutes in you were lost, trying to find nonexistent panels on
>>> your screen. I'd been trying to learn Blender off and on over the years,
>>> and when I finally decided to make a serious run at it, it was impossible.
>>> I gave up and came back a few more times, and finally the tutorials got
>>> updated and I was off and running.
>>>
>>> I noticed a few aspects of Blender that were absolutely brilliant
>>> compared to Maya. I wondered, that's so obviously the right thing, why
>>> doesn't Autodesk do that in Maya? And then it hit me. They simply can't.
>>> They get thousands of dollars per seat for their product, and studios
>>> depend on it being backward-compatible. The studios are VERY conservative
>>> about upgrading, they're often a release or two behind the ones everyone
>>> else uses. Blender is free, and if you want any version since 1.0, it's
>>> available. If you want all of them at once, you can have that. It's just a
>>> program. Something broke for you in a certain version? Just use the version
>>> that works. It's like version control, it doesn't prevent mistakes, but it
>>> allows you to go back to when things were working.
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to note that the Haskell wiki has versions of the platform
>>> going back five years, so hopefully we're in the position of making
>>> well-thought-out breaking changes rather than maintaining compatibility
>>> forever.
>>>
>>> (I have no idea what this thread is about, so forgive me if I'm coming
>>> down on the wrong side of the argument. I like my story anyway.)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Stefan Reich <
>>> stefan.reich.maker.of.eye at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just because you say this - doesn't make it true. I'm still saying the
>>>> truth here.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Gleb Popov <6yearold at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Stefan Reich <
>>>>> stefan.reich.maker.of.eye at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Whatever "community" I go, they all pretend like their old shit is SO
>>>>>> important.
>>>>>>
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>>>>> If everyone around are bad, then the root of the problem is within
>>>>> you, don't you think?
>>>>>
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