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by _ak 11y ago
Get him to get unblacklisted so that he can rent in NYC again, maybe?
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by _ak 11y ago
I totally want my language to be a superset of C++, Scala, Haskell and APL.
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by _ak 11y ago
The "systems" in "systems programming" can also be interpreted to refer to Google's systems. After all, Go was designed to solve Google problems in a Google environment. That's how I always understood it.
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by _ak 11y ago
> It may not always be better since you'll likely never be able to call from Go into Cocoa libs IIRC, Go can call any Objective-C code through cgo.
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by _ak 11y ago
From what we can tell, yes. But, according to our Google contacts, we're among the top performers, most parties taking part in RTB perform a lot worse.
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by _ak 11y ago
This is one of Germany's most popular blogs: http://blog.fefe.de/ It even is themeable: http://blog.fefe.de/?css=bild.css (to make it look like the German tabloid BILD) the CSS links can be external, a
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by _ak 11y ago
We're doing RTB with Google DoubleClick AdX, and our bidder (written in Go) can easily handle 4000 QPS per server with only a 0.3 % error rate.
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by _ak 11y ago
Wake me again when this is more than vaporware.
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by _ak 11y ago
I attended the talk. Wait for the video, I personally found the Dave's arguments and reasoning convincing.
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by _ak 11y ago
Anybody who's tried doing that in KSP knows how hard it is.
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by _ak 12y ago
Long crunch times are either a symptom of longterm planning failures (not hired enough people), or it's a deliberate and premeditated attempt to abuse people for cheap labour (why have 10 people do the work when 6 overworked people can
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by _ak 12y ago
The 90's called, they want their terrible Linux-related jokes back.
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by _ak 12y ago
No, I don't. I merely think that having a free manual and a non-free alternative to it is perfectly fine, because the user will decide which one they pick. No need to force any kind of specific ideology upon anyone.
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by _ak 12y ago
What a shitty argument. On the contrary, the fact that somebody writes a non-free book about a piece of software that comes with a free manual with the expectation that he can actually compete with the free manual tells you much about the q
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by _ak 12y ago
The benchmark section in the README clearly shows the echo router to be the only one of all benchmarked routers that has exactly 0 allocations per request.
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by _ak 12y ago
It also turned out to be a consensus language for Jews from around the world that moved to Mandatory Palestine and later Israel.
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by _ak 12y ago
I knew I'd stumble upon Social Darwinism pretty soon here.
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by _ak 12y ago
I don't think you understand how parliamentary elections worked and how governments were formed in the Weimar Republic. A critical amount of people voted for the candidates of the NSDAP (33.1% of all votes, the relative majority of the
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by _ak 12y ago
Bullshit. Modern screenreaders in browsers directly look at the visible parts of the DOM. Wilfully turning off Javascript in the browser is not an accessibility issue.
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by _ak 12y ago
The "we track where everyone is at all times" is a fundamental principle of mobile telephony. Your carrier always knows in which base station you're logged in, otherwise you wouldn't be able to send or receive anything.
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by _ak 12y ago
If your mobile carrier offered a product to find the nearest gas station/hospital/supermarket 10 years ago (at least mine in Austria did), then of course it worked like that. At least in Austria and Germany, media regularly mentio
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by _ak 12y ago
If you don't like Facebook's value proposition, you're always free to build your own social network with the features you like. Nobody forces you to use Facebook.
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by _ak 12y ago
And that is one reason why he is so terrible at communication. Nobody understands what he really means in that particular case, unless you were able to derive his specific meaning of "thug" from his previous writings. Inventing yo
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by _ak 12y ago
Of course phones were used to track people 10 years ago. And it wasn't even a secret. Location-based services were the hot shit back then for mobile carriers (at least in Europe). Making that to be a big conspiracy to infringe upon eve
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by _ak 12y ago
Not really. If you manage your allocations properly, you will never have such long GC pauses. N.B. we use Go for real-time bidding (in the context of programmatic buying of ad space), and can easily respond to 6000 QPS on a single server wi
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by _ak 12y ago
Whenever I think about it, I find it quite fascinating that a pound literally used to be a pound of silver. Another aspect is the age of the Lsd system, and how long it was held onto.
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by _ak 12y ago
I'm not sure if you're allowed to talk about it, but... I remember a talk by Rob Pike where he mentioned that Sawzall was one of the first major MR users within Google. But IIRC, Sawzall has been retired at Google some time ago, a
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by _ak 12y ago
It's not like the first time he's handling money like that the GnuPG development. In the past, he received two separate grants for exactly that by the German government, and he even employed developers for some time.
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by _ak 12y ago
What I was told by people how things were going in the Berlin office, I seriously wonder whether the Europe business hadn't failed if the employees had actually focused on working instead of just partying. It even went so far that an H
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by _ak 12y ago
egcs was big enough of a threat that it became the official gcc codebase.

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