MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
That article is so cringe-worthy. As if investing in McDonald's is in some way against the goals of the organization. The organization's goal isn't to reduce McDonald's stock price by a few points, or help people who c
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
... this doesn't sound easier, this sounds much more annoying. But each to is own.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Which is a wonderful thing for the corporation. Self-monitoring and peer-pressure among employees. "Really Dan, you want a raise, how much more than Jim do you think you are worth?" Suddenly, you salary is directly related to yo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Exactly this! Who audits this? It is a corporate "policy" effectively, which the controlling interest can lie in exactly as much as they feel like... transparency for all people not in a place to control the "numbers".
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Honestly, if 4k video editing is the goal, why the hell is it capped at 64GB of memory. Being able to store more than like a minute of the 4k film in memory would seem useful. According to http://web.forret.com/tools/v
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, I am only annoyed because of the wonderful job you guys do... it seems like such a glaring omission... because IMHO, it is where stuff often actually "falls apart" in real life... and is some of the most u
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
There have been a group of us -- consistently pushing for exactly this. The maintainers of the benchmark are exceptional resistant to this idea... https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/49
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
If you look at the Go standard library, it doesn't generate too much garbage. It is avoidable often, don't use .String, use .WriteTo -- the GC cost is not across all used memory, just memory with live pointers.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Git already has this, it is already a thing, since 1.7.9. I can sign my commits, you can validate my signature, if we both care, it is out there already.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
There are lots of wonderful integrations / applications for windows now. The days of windows being awful with Git are behind us. Hell of a lot simpler if you don't need ANY branches. Merging is still a goddamn nightmare with SVN
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
... you can sign your git commits with GPG, which is a hell of a lot better than "technically signed" via random internal LDAP and implied relationships. Git has an intentional separation between author of a commit, and the person
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yep, that is a common tactic. But there is often an implied date.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You are missing the point. It is already "normal" -- and it is a major part of business networking. It happens all the time. An older man having dinner with his younger male business associate, no problem. If being a young wome
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wow, the judgement in that post. First of all, you think it is an opportunity for people to get the wrong idea, which I find preposterous, and the only way to fix that bias to show have counter-examples. Beyond that, your personal ideas ab
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> Seriously, why do people waste time writing these types of stories? Because no one remembers the misses, only hits. > Where are those guys who predicated that Apple Stores were such a stupid idea? We need to start keeping score. Peo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You seem to not understand the context I was replying too, nor what I said. > 1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to your living room. I wonder what the death toll from that night was.. 10,000? Mor
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Words like "worse" and "should" are very loaded in this context. Was the blitzkrieg "worse" than the trench warfare of WW1? Was using nuclear weapons "worse" than firebombing (see: Firebombing of To
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> It matters because it changes the fundamental nature of combat. Said about literally EVERY SINGLE change in warfare over the centuries. I am talking all the way back to armor and catapults to gunpowder based munitions, the blitzkrieg,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Due to you post relating to musical instruments I will forever have this mental image ( http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/7-1937/pl... ) when I think of Scala -- 11 Musical Instruments at ONCE!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Despite that post for tolerance of other JVM languages, I still found the linked (original) thread a type of toxic community I haven't exactly seen before. Peppered with great posts, but overall, disturbing. Self-important to an extre
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Some people are working on it, but startups are DOA for government work because they can't survive the absolutely grueling proposal process. It isn't about the tech at all, it is about getting the contracts. To pick those 15 comp
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Significantly less -- even the highest estimates on the invasion phase (not just the shock and awe portion) where at 5600, and of course, the US government claims an order of magnitude less than the 5600 number. Shock and Awe was about disp
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
True, but JRuby comes with it own huge bag of rough edges (read: no C extensions for you without a bit PITA). IronPython is in a similar boat. That said, I do prefer JRuby to Scala.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
And Go compile speed combined with "go run foo.go" makes it feel like a scripting language without a REPL. But in reality, when I need quick scripting, I mostly use ZSH.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Most of the stuff I work on is highly concurrent. GILs are the devil. Almost all the joy and ease you from GIL languages is lost as you try to go concurrent and have to use (in python for example) multiprocess and gevent ... then you star
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Not really, I was lucky enough to have mentor who literally just let me screw around with them. I had hundreds of real hours programming random stuff on both, as well as fixing real world problems with the safety of someone double checking
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Hobby wise: Haskell, Rust, Nimrod, Haxe Shipping code: Go, Erlang, C++11 (avoiding legacy), F# (with Xamarin) I program in many more, but those are probably my top 8 right now.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
We simply disagree on this. I would rather use almost anything else except the random DSL wasteland that is Scala. Even Ruby or Python (with the horrible GILs) is preferable. The groups I worked with made different determinations than you
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Indeed, DEEP in the east coast systems. But, it was great for me, it was literally name my own price consulting (lawyer rates) with multi-month contracts. I would guess it still is a name your own price market if you have the stomach for
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Great comment. I agree with nearly everything you said, but where I end up is the polar opposite. I can't stand Scala for all the reasons you mentioned. The poetry thing is really dead on -- when Larry Wall spoke of Perl -- he said h

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