MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Well - you can use UCR data to check the mugging to murder ratios. I am guessing the overwhelming vast majority of muggings don't result in death, and the overwhelming majority of murders don't occur during muggings. This would imply that
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
First of all ... muggings, plural? How victimized are you? Secondly, the premise that not resisting a mugging will cause an increase in the number of muggings, I simply don't accept this premise.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
No, vanilla tmux does it.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Exactly. The way we act establishes a feedback loop into who we are; even if (initially) we are doing it insincerely.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
This is really damn cool. It just comes too late for me. I have adapted to shared tmux sessions -- that allow me to work with shiver the dirty emacs users.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I think you summed up the problem very well. The next step is how do you get a COMMUNITY of people who value that and will vote accordingly? Really, the problem isn't filtering / upvoting articles; that is a really well solved problem. Th
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
"Most people" don't turn it off, those who do are sophisticated users and can easily download and use NoScript (and probably already do), which is a far smarter solution allowing for you to use the modern web on sites you trust.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Once you throw out usability and common sense, you might as well just tell them to turn off the computer: 100% secure.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Remember back in the early days they wanted all agnostic tags and no specific rendering or design stuff. You can request it be bold, or a heading, but I would decide how a heading or bold looked... that quickly gave way to the more prescri
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I don't think it is entire absurd that internet strangers can give good advice. That said, it is entirely impossible when given no actual information or goals, just a scrawling whine.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It has been very zombierific on HN the last few days.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The EDIT here contains a damn fine idea. I would say they are willfully ignorant, but then why crack down on this Brendan? Maybe a complaint was lodged which brought him to their attention?
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yeah... it smells a little odd, goes against the general golang development (when you have a dep, it ends up in src and you check in src... so... yeah).
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Transitive dependencies (pkgA imports pkgB@v1 but my code need pkgB@v2 which is incompatible with v1) are the thing of nightmares in large systems development. This is a decided on feature by the golang team, not an oversite or something be
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I agree 100% with your first point. It should be spelled out. Your second point I am less sold on. Transitive dependencies (pkgA imports pkgB@v1 but my code need pkgB@v2 which is incompatible with v1) are the thing of nightmares in large
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Why? I can't imagine building a serious product and being dependent on a github repo I don't personally control. It is terror inducing to even consider any real project that would be... even if you are based on a tag or a hash, the author
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wait, are you saying that embedding a reference to some other fast moving master could be dangerous? No way!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yeah, this article made my head hurt. It can be summarized as "Original author didn't localize dependencies, obviously caused problems."
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
True, and they allow unique and sometimes amazing ways to solve problems.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
As someone who has shipped two production systems in Erlang, one for a fortune 100 company, another for a floundering former tech giant, I don't think it is nearly as kool-aid as you think. It is out there, a lot, used in trading houses, us
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Concurrency with messaging is rather trivial, because it does away with the vast majority of the hard parts (but not all of them). Go is easy in that regard for the same reasons Erlang is easy .
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You are right, it is just as simple as using Java, Akka, Maven, working at a company with a good standard formatting and structure and being forced to use an IDE with conditional compilation and only using packages that support Maven and pu
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is "boring" -- absolutely. It is almost insanely so at times (even when solving complex problems). The number of times you get to feel insanely clever is very low. But, that output / work product is -- and a huge part of Go's value is
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Umm... My cheap linode vm toy box has 8 cores. Intel's higher tier server chips run 20 threads per chip (across 10 cores). Heck, even a dirt cheap Dell 1U with 2x X5670 has 24 threads going.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Go's aha moment IMHO is at the edges. If you have built a complex application (250k+ lines) in C++, Python or Java you know about the quiet undignified pains those projects often suffer. - Horrible build systems (and horrible build times)
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
But for those who choose languages for pragmatic rather than cultural (religious) reasons, Golang is a fairly good egg. Liberally licensed (BSD Style + Patent Grant). Focused on the problems of modern large scale systems. With modern mess
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Article would have been MUCH better if he showed actual examples of these problems (specific github repos, dates, current state). Beyond that, I think Github fits the natural tendency of projects to be heavily driven by a small number of i
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The lack of consistency is what gets me. - You have the RIGHT to education in the United States. - You do NOT have the RIGHT to be alive to be educated. * Additionally, you MUST treat someone in the ER if they are dying, but if they will be
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
SVN Merging: Don't.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Because git is significantly faster, better at merging, allows cheap private branching and private changes (don't have to do everything in public just to have version control), allows staging of changes, allows offline work, allows "out of

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