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by _ak 11y ago
When you open a Wikipedia page and see an old school friend on one of the photos.
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by _ak 11y ago
> The next thing on that list is a high performance concurrent queue. That's called a channel in Go.
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by _ak 11y ago
While diversity is certainly good, the major difference here is that Google has an intrisic reason to constantly improve and innovate in Chrome, while Microsoft back then clearly didn't: the whole IE development was driven by trying to
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by _ak 11y ago
Are you people really that naive? Any decent adtech company will detect this as click fraud and filter it. This does nothing but waste computing and network resources for everyone.
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by _ak 11y ago
Stop derailing this discussion about Go GC vs. C no GC.
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by _ak 11y ago
What specifically are you talking about? Go can do syscalls perfectly fine, you can mess in your memory perfectly fine (even if you have to resort to the unsafe package), so what exactly is it where you think Go lacks flexibility compared t
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by _ak 11y ago
Exactly. I'd argue that the majority of people complaining about Go being unusable for them because of the GC would actually be able to deal with the GC easily. I'm working on a soft realtime application in Go, and the GC has neve
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by _ak 11y ago
What stuff are you working on where the runtime guarantees of the Go 1.5 GC aren't good enough?
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by _ak 11y ago
If you want Go-style concurrency, why not use Go in the first place?
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by _ak 11y ago
> If you're looking to teach physics and astronomics, Kerbal Space Project does that quite well, even though it also ignores relativity and speed of light considerations. KSP "only" has a sphere of influence model. That&#x
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by _ak 11y ago
> Why are sane people okay with having their property rights violated by taxation but not by confiscation? Because these people are not egotistical, anti-social assholes, but contribute their share to society instead.
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by _ak 11y ago
@Touche: because they were introduced by the developers. The type of changes you make dictate the semver, but semver doesn't dictate what changes you can or can't make.
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by _ak 11y ago
Last time I seen one of their ads, they emphasized that their code base is still D1. I don't know whether that changed since then.
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by _ak 11y ago
Have you heard about openSNP? It may be relevant to your interests: https://opensnp.org/
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by _ak 11y ago
Not really. You're considered a Jew by other Jews if at least one of your parents is Jewish (your mother in most sects, your father in a few other sects). That's very tribalistic. So, what's the common communal identifier of
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by _ak 11y ago
American exceptionalism.
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by _ak 11y ago
It's not quite like that. American pronunciation change as well. Here's an example of how linguist reconstruct the original pronunciation of Shakespeare plays: http://youtu.be/gPlpphT7n9s It really has more elemen
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by _ak 11y ago
Those are not unique systemd features. supervisor provides that, as well, without requiring to replace the init system underneath.
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by _ak 11y ago
There's a book about Germany working on the atomic bomb from about 10 years ago. One thing that I always stuck in my mind was that the Nazis had several different programmes, run by different organizations. I remember at least three, W
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by _ak 11y ago
> Most (in)famously, the Weimar Republic used PR. That didn't end well. Just look at the fixes the German Federal Republic put into place in 1949. That turns out to work quite well, allowing party plurality while still maintaining e
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by _ak 11y ago
In some way it's a brilliant move by Apple to monetize on people that strictly reject online advertising.
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by _ak 11y ago
Beyond per-impression charges, every advertiser is paying for probabilities - that a certain percentage of their targeted users will click the ad, or that a certain percentage of their target users will convert. They're not interested
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by _ak 11y ago
There's a whole different aspect: you can actually choose not go to uni in Germany, and still build a career: vocational training. Germany still runs serious trainee programmes, including IT.
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by _ak 11y ago
Did this friend happen to be called Leopold Stotch?
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by _ak 11y ago
newsbeuter author here. If you want to develop your own text terminal tools, I can really recommend STFL: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/ Without it, I would have probably been driven crazy when I attempted to put togethe
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by _ak 11y ago
The funny thing is, in several years of using Go in production in what are certainly non-trivial applications, I was able to find any bug either through log-debugging, often with the help of isolating code in unit tests, or through pprof, i
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by _ak 11y ago
IIRC, Riak only did well with the CRDT data types. That result and the rather well done presentation by Peter Bourgon about CRDT and the time series database they built with it at SoundCloud made me look into more, and it seems a quite comp
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by _ak 11y ago
A lot of people are super productive with Go, despite all the detractors criticizing the (supposed) lack of people's favourite language features. That's reason enough to have a closer look. Conceptual purity doesn't buy you a
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by _ak 11y ago
The good thing about how things are structured in Go is that you can read your types from left to right, while in C, you need to use a more intricate way of reading types... http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
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by _ak 11y ago
There's also minit: http://www.fefe.de/minit/

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