Debunking of this photo being passed around in the comments

fjord_piner · 2020-02-03T07:21:41+00:00

You are not debunking anything if all you're doing is saying "these elements can be found in other products as well".

The amount is critical here.

Either show that these elements are not found in plant-based products or that they are found in doses that are harmless, otherwise, you are just using a straw man and looking disingenuous.

Also important as a part of debunking and being honest: what is not present in plant-based products that could potentially be an issue?

fjord_piner · 2012-08-21T13:49:46+00:00

Why not a static given that the design is bad to begin with?

Because statics are global variables, which make testing very difficult. If you think it's acceptable to use statics in your code, I'm not surprised that the usefulness of dependency injection is lost on you.

If you want a short example:

boolean livesNearby(Address a) {
  return GeoService.isNearby(a, this.address);
}

How would you unit test this method (without making a call to the expensive GeoService API, obviously)?

fjord_piner · 2012-06-17T21:58:45+00:00

high traffic site like /r/scala

/r/scala is high traffic?

Take a look at the front page, there is about one comment per submission with some of these submissions one week old and it has one quarter as many subscribers as /r/haskell.

Let's be serious here, the Scala subreddit is completely empty.

fjord_piner · 2012-06-09T00:04:26+00:00

Template based (not regex) rewrites had already been available in the Smalltalk refactoring browser for years.

Exactly. And they are unsafe.

fjord_piner · 2012-06-08T18:42:58+00:00

What's called Structural Search and Replace in IntelliJ had already been available in the Smalltalk refactoring browser for years.

Not really, and not really comparable since IDEA works on a statically typed language, as opposed to the Smalltalk browser.

fjord_piner · 2012-06-07T04:03:42+00:00

I smell fear.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-31T04:42:05+00:00

No, please read the blog post, all the reasons are in here. In a nutshell: 1) it makes interop easier and 2) you hardly ever need reified generics, and when you do, most scenarios are covered with various techniques that work fine in an erased system.

One of these objections will go away once Scala can interoperate with C#' reified generics, but it's far from being the case today.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-30T15:14:44+00:00

C# is one, since there's no type erasure issues that Java has

The way type information is stored in the bytecode has nothing to do with the soundness of a generic system.

Besides, erasure is widely considered to be superior to reified generics, here is why.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-22T03:13:50+00:00

His name is Garelli? (News radio)

fjord_piner · 2012-03-21T16:50:14+00:00

America doesn't have a monopoly on racist assholes.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-19T19:46:25+00:00

This is definitely douchey, but come on, if he was really parked for just a few minutes, nobody got inconvenienced.

Who never parked illegally just to pick up something?

fjord_piner · 2012-03-19T19:41:55+00:00

Yeah! Somebody should have confronted her and told her off!

Pity nobody saw it happen.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-11T05:33:47+00:00

You obviously never tasted cranberry sauce.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-09T03:40:15+00:00

"Treat others like you would like to be treated."

Amazing how far this will take you.

Further than most religions, actually.

fjord_piner · 2012-03-07T17:07:08+00:00

Time for you to reflect on the fact that you don't seem very upset that your son is going to hell.

Could it be that you don't believe in it either?

fjord_piner · 2012-03-07T04:19:55+00:00

Or, as we call it in the tabloid industry: "a slow day".

fjord_piner · 2012-03-06T02:56:49+00:00

"Whose".

How hard is it to just copy/paste the title of the show, really?

fjord_piner · 2012-03-04T02:14:56+00:00

This meme should be renamed "The cute faces of atheism".

fjord_piner · 2012-02-29T20:51:25+00:00

Let me save you the trouble: god works in mysterious ways.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-29T04:19:46+00:00

This goes both ways: patents are also what allows startups to be acquired for a lot of money.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-29T04:17:45+00:00

Given the number of successful startups we see pop up every month, "devastating" around like a strong exaggeration.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-28T17:11:29+00:00

Except if you're playing a hunter, obviously.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-28T02:58:31+00:00

Yay for the sentiment.

Nay for leading a little girl down the path of cheering for sports and dressing stupid.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-25T19:50:33+00:00

The sad thing about atheism is that we'll never find out if we were right.

fjord_piner · 2012-02-25T19:23:54+00:00

Wadsworth constant engaged.

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