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Much easier to paint a bike shed on Mars than over here.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071240

Interesting analogy. Only after reading this comment did I realize that my mental model has been somewhat similar. Although if I had to write it down, I'd phrase it in terms of data structures. I…

I think we're basically in agreement that it's a great shame when important information is not reaching the audience it deserves because of how it's presented. It's a neat parallel…

Oh yes, absolutely. My answer seems dismissive because I mostly follow the NBA, but in fact the relationship between the number of games, ticket prices, and factors affecting attendance is a fascinati…

11 out of 30 NBA teams had 100% home game attendance last season. 18 teams were above 95%. There's not that much margin for improvement there. http://www.espn.com/nba/attenda…

Their loss.

I think physicists won't mind if we extend the "observer effect" to cover this case.

I have a friend in Japan who used to own a small seafood restaurant. At the end of the day, before closing up shop, she would send a fax to her supplier at the local fish market with a list of things …

s15 seems to be skewed by a bunch of JavaScript projects including Font Awesome, which stores the bathtub icon as s15.js for some reason (note that s1 through s14 are unused, so it's not just con…

Show a histogram. Logarithmic scale, number of accounts affected.

How can you say " _____ doesn't have this problem (unless you use wildcard imports " when all of the languages you listed allow wildcard imports? (Or just dump all their garbage symbols…

Anecdotally, this is a non-issue depending on the tools you use. IntelliJ IDEA and Metals both have Go To Definition support.

That wouldn't quite work because all of > Unsound, inconsistent, overly complicated, poorly abstracted, improper paradigms apply to the current stable version of Scala as well. You'd be c…

Backend web services. Scala has top notch tools to model domain objects, handle a high volume of incoming requests, process transactions (including async ones). tl;dr: like the JVM and dislike root ca…

You're exactly right. Add in the fact that Facebook can pose this as a puzzle to be solved, and attract a steady stream of sharp young people who can solve the puzzle without being bothered too m…

Ah, you're correct of course, as is TJSomething. While Cats and Scalaz don't provide a Functor instance for Set (and neither does Haskell for Data.Set), it's not for the reason I mentio…

In Scala a Set is "mappable" because it has a `map` method that goes over its elements and transforms them using the provided function. But it is not a functor, because its `map` does not ob…

Even more impressively, the poem is also sometimes used (untranslated) in classes teaching English as a second language. So you don't need to be a native speaker to intuit the intended meaning.

Some thoughts on the matter: 1) Are there domains where naming things is easier? Perhaps even trivial? As a layman in both, biology and astronomy come to mind. Where you just find a Latin word vaguely…

Hate to be the "Source?" person, but were you there at the time? If not, please update Wikipedia with references to your original source of information. (Wikipedia doesn't admit origina…

In criminal investigation, success is also multiplicative: Success = means * motive * opportunity.

I don't know where exactly xkcd lands on the web comic popularity scale, but let's be conservative and say Top 3. The xkcd RSS feed embeds the image (and alt text) into posts. That is very c…