PommeDeTerre

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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Part of what I see m0th87 saying, though, is that practice has shown that these claims about JIT compilation handling certain cases more effectively than AOT compilation just don't really hold true. JIT compilation may be better than s
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
It's somewhat disconcerting for Dart to merely be seen as "promising", especially given its competition. It would take a lot of effort to do worse than JavaScript. CoffeeScript is basically just JavaScript with a Ruby-inspire
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Why do you think that the flaws that I've personally experienced with JavaScript differ from those that others have experienced and already documented? The flaws are there regardless of who is using JavaScript. I'll list some of t
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Nonsense. There's a huge, and very obvious, difference in the overall level of experience, ignorance and competence within the various programming language communities. The JavaScript, PHP and Ruby communities have an abundance of igno
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Software doesn't exist in a vacuum. It often has a lifespan far in excess of the involvement of the original developers. It can also have a very serious impact upon its users, its subsequent maintainers, and any organizations they may
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
I'm not sure that Rust is really a good example. While promising, the language itself and its standard library are still immature and subject to a huge amount of disruptive change on an ongoing basis. I've had some experimental co
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
The numerous flaws with JavaScript (the programming language) are well-known and well-documented. A few search engine searches should bring up ample information. As for its "greatest flaw", I think that may be the JavaScript commu
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
It's confusing to see responses like this. We continually hear about how great MongoDB supposedly is from its advocates, with them claiming it's suitable as a general-purpose database. Yet when somebody who has apparently used it
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
I've seen your flawed argument used more and more often around here lately. It's pretty disappointing to see. Somebody speaking out against deeply broken technologies or bad ideas that have received a lot of hype lately does not m
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
No, I think it's just the unfortunate reality. The problem with your argument is that those who know programming languages other than JavaScript end up seeing its flaws extremely clearly. Such people won't willingly subject themse
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
When I first looked at Google Docs, it reminded me of the desktop office suites I had used back in the early 1990s. The core functionality was, and still is, quite limited. In some cases it's still inferior to what those early office s
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
What exactly is "amazing" about it? This is the sort of functionality that has been made available by numerous text editors and IDEs for numerous programming languages for many, many years now. It's somewhat unusual to see ho
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Laziness and irresponsibility aside, why would you be writing code without even a minimal level of error checking?
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
If the experience in question involves the tracking of users in some way, then I think it's pretty clear that there should be a different experience for users with the header set, versus those without it. Those who provide that header
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
In your other comment, you mention that "our hefty DB cluster has lots of cores", and that this caused licensing to be much more expensive. Have you considered that maybe the abstractions and attitudes you're using have infla
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
I'm not sure that you're interpreting such a stance correctly. Any further 1.x releases should clearly try to avoid incompatibility as much as possible. Anyone seriously using a programming language does require a relatively high
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
When it comes to the Rust tutorials, documentation and code that do already exist, a lot of the information is now very misleading. This may even be more harmful than no documentation at all, especially for people new to the language. While
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
The discipline involved with writing safe C++ code is somewhat different from the discipline involved with writing safe code in some dynamic language. In C++, it's mostly just a matter of understanding the language features you're
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
One thing to consider about C++, though, is that it's powerful enough to already allow you to duplicate or very closely approximate the functionality you listed. This is the essence of what some people call "Modern C++". C++
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Rust appears very promising, but having followed it for some time now, it's still severely lacking in terms of stability. I'm talking about the stability of the language feature set and the amount of change it's undergoing, r
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
One interesting thing to consider about the increase in Go's popularity is that it has been driven, to some extent, by programmers who really only had experience with PHP, Ruby, or JavaScript. These are the kind of developers who have
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
There's absolutely nothing "negative" about wondering how much was paid to do something, including the development of websites.
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Absolutely. Where did I ever say it didn't?
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Merely pointing out the hypocritical arguments of some Apple supporters does not automatically make somebody an "Android fanboy". Merely pointing out the functional differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make s
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Additionally, I think that this comparison would only be valid after the Go version experiences an equivalent amount of developer turnover, features added in a rush by developers inexperienced with the software, external infrastructure chan
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Nonsense. Users can very likely block Google Analytics on your site with ease, and without impacting the rest of your site's functionality. That's not necessarily the case when more critical content is served from Google's se
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Most of those are pretty obscure or minor issues compared to the lack of support for Linux. At least people on Windows or OS X can use this new version of Opera, even if it is broken in many ways. Linux users don't even have that optio
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Just because human lives aren't necessarily at stake it doesn't mean that poor (in my opinion) software system designs should be tolerated. And when we talk about "relational databases", we basically never mean MySQL. I&
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Given appropriate hardware, it's possible to get astounding performance, safety and reliability out of relational database systems like NonStop SQL, DB2, and Oracle.
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by PommeDeTerre 13y ago
Billing systems are not to be taken lightly, namely because money is inherently involved. When developing such systems, it is irresponsible to use new, unproven technologies without justification. When developing such systems, it is irrespo

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