MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> "Growing" here means refining the language as it exists, not succumbing to featuritis. In no world does "we expect that pace of change to accelerate" mean "we expect subtle refinement of the language". Re
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It always astounds me when (inexperienced) developers play down build times as if they simply aren't that big an issue. They are hellish, creativity crushing monsters. Also, static binaries -- so the DevOps guys don't hit you wit
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Woah, I can't tell if that was a brilliant troll or you honestly believe these things -- either way +1 hilarious.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Its purpose is to help ship products. It isn't sexy, it isn't fancy, it isn't interesting, it isn't groundbreaking. If it doesn't help you ship products, don't use it. Go will continue to grow at the insane p
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Please point me to the large codebase your ported from Java to Go -- if you don't have actual data, just two people making up idiotic numbers let me get involved. Go is 185175% better than Java and 8165% better than Haskell -- or makin
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
What language is simpler to setup? 1. Download tar.gz (or zip) 2. Extract to <place> 3. export GOROOT=<place> 4. export GOPATH=<some_other_place> ... if you want to get fancy and make sure all your binaries are automatical
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
As someone who has repeatedly done code generation on the C++ side to avoid build-hell (text files with expansion into C++ files) -- I can't agree with this. Your trivialization of complex C++ build times is nonsensical and reeks of i
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I think that isn't so much attitude as experience. That said, I will watch post May 15th and hope I am wrong, but I suspect despite the buzz some of the policies will be (broad adoption) language suicide.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
"Stable" but adding new features every 6 weeks... which will get used by library authors... which will put all users on a 6 week upgrade cycle.. yey? Or your favorite library author just likes nightlies, which effectively forces y
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I was vague and unclear, entirely my fault. I really want Rust to be successful, I just think some of the decisions being made are shortsighted, so I will watch after release to see if I am correct, hope I am not. > What is the impendin
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Woah, that is a really cool idea. The idea of walkable state is neat... even if 1 FPS.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> It was written by pcwalton, one of the main driving forces behind Rust. (Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for a couple months, so it won't build with latest rust). Possibly the most telling sentence I have ever read abou
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Indeed, <10 millisecond search results on 14TB is amazing (absolutely wrecked what we managed to get out of any other indexer - order of magnitude faster). Honestly, Sphinx is a little ugly to setup -- but it is an absolutely amazing pi
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It seems that "high quality audio solution", in their case polycom, in our case mumble + good mics and "no videoconferencing" are among the most common thing I see in successful remote work setups. For reasons I can&#x27
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Ignorance is bliss.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Have any of the core developers considered creating a very polished / simplified / professional supported client for business? Stuff like "native look" on OS-X, some shiny features and ability to be easily pre-configured
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Yeah, I really think a polished / pre-configurable UI for business could be an amazing thing for Mumble (both for business, "use this binary" and for guilds / gamers ... same thing "use this binary" ... binary
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Is your product OS-X focused? One of the big things about Mumble for us was the cross-platform support, we have developers on Linux, OS-X and Windows all talking together every day. What codex are you guys using?
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Holy crap, had no idea it was Haxe. That is a great success story (and fun game).
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
An unexpected tool has helped tremendously for our teams in terms of remote work: Mumble ( http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page ). Mumble is a cross platform, open source VoIP application. Often used for gaming in a g
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
The box scores were really good. They are the two that got me, I guess the word complexity is low -- so templating can be high, but they felt to me very human-ish.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Too regular? I gotta be honest, that comment makes very little sense to me. My problem diving into most codebases (over 10 years spent contracting) was always multiplied horrifically by non-idiomatic code in language X. Bob the developer
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> No, my problem, is with the pre-supposed and agreed upon set of idioms ("idiomatic Go", "idiomatic Java", "idiomatic Python"). Idioms have to be agreed upon (by the community) else they have no value at al
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> Where does this idiotic idea cames from that being "idiomatic" is some kind of virtue? Because being able to communicate is a virtue. That is all idioms are, a way to improve communication. By being well understood in a gi
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
"Joy" -- I feel like I spend all my time bookkeeping -- which is about the least fun thing imaginable. The guarantees keep me interested, but just barely at this point.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
What annoys me is when it is treated as a money issue. The US spends more per student than any other country, and among the most as a % of GDP (7.3%) well above the average of industrialized countries of 6.3% -- there are countries that sp
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I have been using the star/archive/spam method for a long time now in regular gmail. The inbox interface seems to slow down my flow, as it has little inbetween steps I find irrelevant. I zip through my email in gmail using keybin
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Indeed I am, my "minimum useful" amount is 16GB -- my desktops are 128GB, and my current "monster laptop" is 64GB. The in-flight state on the software I work on can get well over 8GB with our test dataset.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
One can hope, currently as my next portable, I am looking at the Asus UX303LN (great memorable Asus names...) but haven't found much info on putting Linux on it yet.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I was excited until I read 8GB max... that can't be right can it? What modern developer machine would have an 8GB cap?

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