/lit/ - Literature

>>18154184
>how is sowell's in comparison
Sowell's Basic Economics, I couldn't concentrate with it. it was also based on reasoning, and deduction (as opposed to using statistics to prove their points). But it was so banal and axiomatic that it bored me. It was like reading "the sky is blue." From my memory, maybe if I reread it it would be different. but Hazlitt was (like sowell) a total genius. but more importantly, he knew how to articulate it for the layman.

>>17935061
>history teacher shows the cartoon Animal Farm movie
>movie ends
>"So class, George Orwell predicted the Bolshevik Revolution with that ending"
>I raise my hand and point out the ending in the book is exactly the opposite as how the cartoon movie ends
>another girl in the class collaborates, he just kind of moves on
public education is the reason america is fucked. my history teacher hadn't even spent a couple hours to read the book himself

>>17544979
programmer here. this is retarded. She believes the "Object Oriented Programming is successful because it's easy to model the real world in objects" meme. (Hence why she's saying she's trying to find a different way of "abstracting," meaning modeling objects.) That is a myth. OOP did not become ubiquitous in the industry because of this. OOP became the industry standard for one reason: polymorphism.

You know how an iphone generation 2 can detect your airpods? it's because of polymorphism: your airpods use what is called an interface, and the iphone gen 2 knows that interface. the airpods inherited from that interface, but can change the interworkings. So in other words, when the iphone says "play music" the airpods will run that method, but do whatever they want.

In short, she completely missed the point of OOP, and good luck to her creating a programming language without the main pillar of OOP, polymorphism (or inheritance or scope for that matter)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqHxOQWW_Nw

Literal Philistines, who want to sound edgy like Mark Twain. If you consider the hundreds of thousands of teenagers, and old men and widows who found comfort in random verses, and you consider all the parallels and references to the bible, and you consider how many people have given money and displaced their lives because of this book. Go to the desert and build a city out of the sand, and then come talk to me about how boring the Book of Mormon is.