MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Biased roulette wheels are basically a thing of the past. Now they are hooked up to electric monitoring system (that also do the fun LCD displays above them), monitor balance and track every winning number. If the computers notices a sign
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Agreed, it adds nothing and makes the authors seem juvenile. I am not someone sensitive to language either, if it added value I would be open to the most vile introduction imaginable.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Tossing out US troops would be the strongest statement. When the US tried to reduce troop numbers in Germany, they had a fit. All about the economic impact losing all the US military spending in that region would cause. Turns out stationi
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
People don't like early returns because sometimes they return before some basic cleanup / must have function component is run. Normally added by someone unfamiliar with the function accidentally. Go's defer statement makes
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wow, the author mixes good points with absolute crap... which make him seem less reliable and less worth listening to and sucks the wind out of his good points. I think the fundamental implication was that rockstars are primadonnas. - Why
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
If you think lack of features is a knock against Go, you aren't really in the right mindset (Go might just not be for you). The lack of remarkable features is what is remarkable. The same with heavily built web-frameworks versus like
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
First of all -- I think the letter from MailChimp was very polite and straightforward. The posters expectations (hopes?) are insane That said, what are the rights around "clean room" implementation of website designs? If I simpl
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I suspect it is something in you setup -- that is a use case that ZMQ is specifically very good at... the fact that you can start the client before or after you start the server (doesn't apply to inproc) is awesome.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Straight forward, easy builtin cross compiling is supported from<=>to: darwin/386 darwin/amd64 freebsd/386 freebsd/amd64 linux/386 linux/amd64 linux/arm windows/386 windows/amd64 But, once
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Congrats, you are the Lil Wayne of the programming world.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
This io.Copy behavior seems like an "optimization"... less explicit than I would like but sticks to the idea of an io.Copy. Having a resource you own Closed on you isn't an optimization, it is a behavior change.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I have a dream of something like this working with Go's cross-compiling ( http://dave.cheney.net/2013/07/09/an-introduction-to-cross-c... ) allowing me to build native executables for windows from linux wi
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
People just lean to their comfort. I am an Erlanger -- so I tend towards channels. As people start doing more concurrently and the problems get more complex, dividing work among simple actors (or microservers depending how you break it up
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I think the biggest fans of RAII are those who use it more academically -- in real life it is brittle and scopes are tricky. It is also just an idiom as compared to a compiler feature. And, IMHO, RAII tends to play poorly with others.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Maybe CPython wouldn't have the GIL... maybe we would all ride unicorns to work! (NOTE: this comment may have been written just to slam Python and the GIL... I hate it so much)
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Well -- as long as you have unexplained, undocumented "solutions" in your closed source corporate controlled democratic product, why was I worried, silly me!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
1&2: Hourly is just a mark that the guy who wrote the article is clueless, he meant Time and Materials of course. Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, lets not worry too much about he subdivision of labor. 3: This is true, but it puts an ug
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is lying and cheating, and it is illegal. Generally 'standard weeks' are done under the assumption that you will work at least 40 hours on the project (often more, I average 44). The concept is that the project is significantl
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
1) Nonsense, you raise your rate as you prove yourself, as someone who bills at $185+ -- clients aren't idiots. They understand that if you can do it in 1/5th the time and cost 3x the money, they are still saving money. Clients
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The person who hosts this product is still king, he just now gets to wield power via proxy. This seems to be a closed source application as well with single corporate ownership? The idea that mob-rule, a popularity contest, is significantl
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
TL;DR - TIOBE is crap, bad information is worse than no information. I agree with your first point, people will take any information over no information (for better or worse). I highly doubt most HN readers are aware of the limitations, els
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Who would have thought that "take acid" would be the SAFER option.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I really hope you guys start doing more in-depth high-concurrency testing. This is a huge risk / problem with many frameworks and kits. It seems to be a blackhole in your tests for some reason, which is a shame because the are so w
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I would go so far as to say Haskell is better. But, then you gotta remember, "worse is better" (New Jersey style), and Go is worse. New Jersey style: (1) be simple in both implementation and interface (2) correct, be correct as l
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I think they would be less disappointed if it meant a consistent schedule. These benchmarks are really a lot of fun, not sure if they change hearts and minds, but they are beautiful and fun. I think being time-boxed rather than implementat
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
mindcrime has been a victim of a ... Stockholm syndrome.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wow! I thought that might be an April fools -- but that is a legit O'Reilly Dwarf Fortress book...
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I can't decide if the author is brilliant and doing a scathing critique of short attention spans and knee jerk reactions of the modern developer or is entirely on the level and just a bit of an imbecile.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
"Slightly more risk adverse" is a vast understatement, and goes hand in hand with the culture problem. The near permanent branding of anyone who has failed in a business venture is horrifying from an American perspective. A lot
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
NOTE: The article in question is from 2009. The 1 in 6 (and 1 in 33 among men) chance of being raped from the article is absolute nonsense that comes from a terrible 1992 "survey" by the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

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