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by Xixi 12y ago
I think you are correct, and it (as expected) changes the results. I ran owensd code on my machine, in a completely non scientific and error prone setup. For release builds: Objective-C: 0.0310617s Safe Swift (incorrect): 0.0641295s (106.5%
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by Xixi 12y ago
I'v very recently (few days ago) launched a service with the same business model but for Japanese tea, called Tomotcha: https://tomotcha.com I'll most certainly do a Show HN soon, just a couple of things to fix before.
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by Xixi 12y ago
Just a couple weeks ago someone asked me how Yosemite was compared to Mavericks. My answer: "they are the same modulo a couple minor UI tweaks". I guess it's because I use very little Apple softwares, despite using almost exc
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by Xixi 12y ago
Scripting language doesn't imply at all "interpreted". Otherwise you would just say that: interpreted. "Scripting language" denotes a strong tie between a system and the language used to script it. In other words yo
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by Xixi 12y ago
You should have a look at Elixir. It's a simple, dynamic, functional language running on top of BEAM, the Erlang VM. It recently reached 1.0 and is production ready: http://elixir-lang.org/
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by Xixi 12y ago
I think what you were looking for is Plug: https://github.com/elixir-lang/plug I don't think there's a plug for websockets out of the box, but it's not hard to hook them on Cowboy directly.
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by Xixi 12y ago
This is an interesting point of view. I personally find the erlang approach -no shared memory- to be the least error prone, and as a consequence the most efficient for developers. With Erlang you can't share memory [0], but in exchange
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by Xixi 12y ago
May I ask why? Not having parallelism seems like a net negative to me...
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by Xixi 12y ago
3.6% unemployment and virtually every store has an "help wanted" sign [1] on its front door. Japan is facing an incredible demographic challenge: Japanese population decline has really started 3 to 5 years ago (depending on the
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by Xixi 12y ago
I think there is a business case, even for FPS. FPS are typically played online, so you are already dealing with lag. And a worst case of lag is already going to get you killed, whether the game is streamed or not. Besides the light is not
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by Xixi 12y ago
I beg to differ, at least for most websites/webapps. If you serve your front-end in a static way (via for instance a CDN), you can make your landing page (and the pricing page, blog, etc.) ungodly fast: just make it purely static (or n
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by Xixi 12y ago
I'm not completely sure it's fair to compare Tokyo or Osaka to the like of Paris. There are two major differences that impact prices: - France population is increasing steadily, while Japanese population is in for a dive. You cann
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by Xixi 12y ago
I've not tried it yet, but Poxa [1] looks quite promising: it's an Elixir app that is supposedly compatible with Pusher libraries. [1] Poxa: https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa
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by Xixi 12y ago
There are a bazillion of social startups out there without even a beginning of business model. What will they do with my data? It might very well be a shot at Google, but it can also be a form of dismissal of an entire segment of the softwa
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by Xixi 12y ago
If Apple does it correctly, 1.0 means that there will be no backward incompatibilities until a hypothetical version 2.0. As a user of a not yet 1.0 language (Elixir, though it has reached release candidate status), backward incompatibilitie
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by Xixi 12y ago
You could argue that float/int arithmetic is inherently imprecise. It is, however, fully deterministic. Of course as you hint in your comment, at a lower level hardware is prone to failures and lack determinism: bugs in the cpu, ram co
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Airbus launches the A330neo(airbus.com)
3 points by Xixi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Xixi 12y ago
You are forgetting a "small" difference between Japan and Iceland: Japan is overpopulated and doesn't have enough land to grow its own food, thus relying on importations to feed itself. On the other hand Iceland is mostly emp
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by Xixi 12y ago
Prolog is a very different beast, in that it doesn't rely on any "thick" abstraction. It's based on resolution [1], thus the way code is executed is straightforward and unsurprising (providing you understand resolution f
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by Xixi 12y ago
I second this recommendation: I've started a project with Elixir two weeks ago, and so far I really love it. As far as syntax goes nothing beats the elegance of Python, but in terms of overall application architecture OTP [1] is just m
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by Xixi 12y ago
It depends on the country. For instance in France a cyclist as no business alongside pedestrians : you either share the road with cars, use a dedicated line or get off your bicyle and walk alongside pedestrians. So I can definitely understa
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by Xixi 12y ago
"7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Rent space in a computer store, flood it with Apple products (especially software), staff it with Apple salespeople, and display everything like you're a living, breathing company a
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by Xixi 12y ago
The reason could simply be that the pool of jobs available when you work remotely is larger/of better quality than the pool of jobs available within a reasonable distance of where you live. Buying a house is also negatively correlated
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by Xixi 13y ago
You usually enter bankruptcy when you become insolvent, that is to say when you can't pay your bills (it can be the salaries of your employees, a bill from a supplier, debt interests, rent, utility bills, etc.). You can run a profitabl
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Languages I want to learn and use this 2014(medium.com)
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by Xixi 13y ago
On the other hand it might just be a matter of getting used to it. Japanese live-action movies are a textbook definition of overplayed, and few years ago I couldn't stand watching them. It was making me physically uncomfortable. Fast f
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by Xixi 13y ago
I've always seen Chrome, Chrome OS and Android as first and foremost defensive products: if you control the OS you control the default browser, and if you control the browser you control the default search engine. When you look at it t
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by Xixi 13y ago
Keep in mind that DirectX and OpenGL are first and foremost abstraction layer on top of the GPU. Consoles have a fixed hardware, so you can skip a large part of these and write code directly for the GPU. I don't know how much still hol
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by Xixi 13y ago
To put things in perspective my goto stack is Django/Celery/RabbitMQ/PostgreSQL. Chicago Boss is quite impressive in that it replaces all of that (except PostgreSQL, though for an adequate project you could use mnesia instead
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by Xixi 13y ago
My policy is to stick to a couple of stacks for projects I will have to maintain 5 years down the road: currently Python/PostgreSQL for server side code, and AngularJS or Unity for client side code (depending on the nature of the proje

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