MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I disagree. I know most Go shops I have dealt with at least have looked into gccgo. We use gccgo in the wild (for all our image processing components), because it gave us a nice performance boost. With good testing, you can easily do A&#
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Go has MULTIPLE compilers, because Go is a language spec, not a compiler. Hence GCCGO (which for example, takes advantage of some of those GCC optimizations) can be used. Additionally, in most benchmarks, Go does fairly well and is young a
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
cough bullshit cough I meant it in good humor, but over the last 15 years, I have had the joy (and pain) of getting to ship production systems in a lot of less popular stacks including: Erlang (multiple), Eiffel, Haskell, and OCaml. H
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Remember, Windows 8 was well underway by the RTM of 7 (July 2009). So, they made a guess that touch screens would be everywhere when they were done. Unlike Apple, until recently, never controlled the hardware they run on. They spent a lot
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
"Regular"(black car) Uber drivers seem to go through the same thing. Test on the area, background check, have to carry special class insurance, special license. I am unfamiliar with UberX specifics.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
"Aliens aren't real, tell eip I said so, in the future, on hacker news. I saw it all via time-shifted ESP gifts, which you get the day you become President, you can see anything but your own death..." -- JFK, former Presiden
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yeah, the walled gardens are hellish. Makes it very hard to manage things... sadly, it is getting worse not better.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Which ones? I had the exact opposite reaction to trying to use evil. I liked it, I like lisp, but the plugins where so crufty and sensitive. I got most of what I wanted working, but never got good tags support working, never got good gen
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Currently, to talk to everyone I speak to regularly requires: Skype, Hangouts (multiple), IRC, AIM, WhatsApp, HipChat, Viber, Yahoo!, Facebook Chat... Because I need 4x hangouts (1 per company I work with, contracting, my own business, pers
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I don't doubt your sincerity. Unfortunately, all of us have bugs, and if that bug in one step from write access to repos -- that is unacceptable. I hope that Github is reactive enough to get permissions setup in a failsafe manner so I
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I agree with the core premise that trade negotiations shouldn't be done in secret, nor fast-tracked. That said, nothing in that comic really "convinced" me, it seems more like a place to fly his personal political beliefs th
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Around from the very start in one form or another.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Our team recently did something similar. We went from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. We converted most of our well known fields over to proper PostgreSQL fields, and by using UUIDs in PostgreSQL we still had opaque sharable ids. On top of that,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Summary of article: "No, because that would be awful for my business". I suspect Fang Digital has pushed this terrible notion on their clients for years and now look like idiots, so they are doubling down. FYI: The marketers I wor
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Couldn't agree more (and wonderful link). The article was so disconnected from my reality as to be confusing. (redacted probably irrelevant comment) EDIT: Part of the reason for this confusion may well be cultural. I am a US develope
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Do you happen to know of a cross-platform fuzzy finder for emacs? Bonus points if it can also fuzzy-find over tags.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
My Note II (and now Note III) completely killed my tablet use... or more properly put, replaced it. With the stylus and multitasking, feels more like a small tablet with phone capabilities. My various tablets are now nearly permanently att
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
What is "significant penetration" from your perspective? It is very young (as a 1.0, not even 2 years old). What language would you compare it to, and where was that language at 2 years old? What was Java adoption in 1998? What
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Compare Go in early 2014 to Scala early 2006, that is when they were about the same age.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is amazing that MUMPS will be 50 years old in 2 years -- and it still alive and kicking. An emergency MUMPS project is still my highest billing project (per hour) ever.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
They aren't intended as some magical argument ending tool, they are designed as reminders are common flaws in logic. They are more for personal use than use against others, because it is easy to fall into bad logic, even more so when
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is indeed mind boggling when people list async (read: callback hell) as a feature. Complex systems rapidly get unmanageable, so people build nasty hacks to try to paper over the async core (it is still async single threaded at its core,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> I disagree that people will become comfortable with Google Glass - the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording). When personal cameras first cam
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Git supports many channels for sharing changes.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is context aware, which is actually really awesome! It understands if it is in a tag, in a script, in quotes, in double quotes, in source, in css, in style and lots of stuff I am forgetting and does the custom escaping required to make
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Lots of things that are good for communities are restricting for individuals. Even more interesting, some of them lose significant value when anything less than a super-majority fall in line with them (This for example is why I think the G
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I have OCR in production live written in pure Go. It does OCR on small specific portions of images to get keywords out to be put into a DB (1B+ page scans). We use tesseract for full page scans (when needed, when our OCR fails). But Go w
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Agreed (Gopher 1+ years)! My heart still leans towards Erlang, but Go is my current daily driver. The vicious pragmatism at every turn is whats keeps me (and the team) loving it. It isn't the most elegant, not even close. It isn&#x2
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is opinionated (a more useful word than pretentious), and it is this way across many things. From style to directory structure to versioning of dependencies to generics. If you actually read the reasoning behind them, I think they are
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I fully support language specialization -- that is kinda the point, it all ends up bits in the end. Rust is a completely different animal than Go yet I think both are awesome! The idea that all languages have to cater to all people is sill

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