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by adwhit 8y ago
Rust hasn't really got 'faster' in that time, barring the odd optimizer improvement as noted in sibling. Much more likely that whatever benchmark you refer to has been rewritten for better performance.
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by adwhit 8y ago
Indeed, less 'confusing' and more 'broken'.
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by adwhit 8y ago
I always use it with > "compilerOptions": { "strict": true } But given the huge number of other options I worry that like GCC's '-Wall', that doesn't actually give you the strongest possible type c
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by adwhit 8y ago
A more generous interpretation might be that Rust has sparked a CLI renaissance, since it lets developers write CLIs that have that satisfying zip that previously was only possible in C. None of PHP, Ruby or Java is responsive enough for a
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by adwhit 8y ago
The point isn't that it is particularly difficult (if you know what you are doing). The point is that from a cost-benefit perspective, it probably isn't worth more than 2 minutes of your time, if that.
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by adwhit 8y ago
When I read things like that, I always think of the paper "The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users". [1] Yes, content injection is bad, but the chance of it happening multiplied by the damage it could cause to your user
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by adwhit 8y ago
It's still getting commits, by the looks of things[1]. As always, I'm sure they welcome contributions. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/nomicon/commits/master
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by adwhit 8y ago
Google allows it's employees to put their 20% projects on the google github, provided they a disclaimer in the README. It doesn't mean much but perhaps it's good for publicity. Xi has always been in there.
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by adwhit 8y ago
Obviously, the wealthy own the debate. And that is no accident but the result of a highly successful political project that has been instituted over the past 40 years. Hey, there was even a study about it[1]: Multivariate analysis indicate
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by adwhit 8y ago
Time to mount a 51% attack and steal land in Georgia. "It doesn't work like that"?
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by adwhit 8y ago
Envion said it would use the money collected from investors to build mobile rigs, filled with computers designed to “mine” or digitally create new Bitcoin. The rigs could be moved between sources of renewable electricity, which would power
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by adwhit 8y ago
For those who missed it, Sam Boyer (maintainer of dep) wrote a detailed post about why he thinks vgo (or rather Minimum Version Selection) is inadequate[0]. The key argument is With dep, it’s usually easy to point to failures - they’re exp
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by adwhit 9y ago
I like rocket a lot - practically as easy as writing flask but with glorious type-safety thrown in - but I really wanted async ('like, now') because my project will have a large number of persistent connections. I'm sure rock
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by adwhit 9y ago
It is very peculiar. Whether it is an attempt to "reclaim" the word or not, that subreddit's usage of "neoliberal" bears little relation it's usage as defined in books such as David Harvey's 'A Brief
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by adwhit 9y ago
For more detail into the porting effort, I recommend taking a look at these slides, taken from a talk the author gave last year: https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/docs/fmq-porting-c-t... "Rust rev
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by adwhit 9y ago
> Creating a new coin or forking doesn't solve anything, they would be alone and it wouldn't have any value if nobody wants to trade in. Well, is the point of Ethereum to make some cash at the expense of later investors (basica
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by adwhit 9y ago
My understanding of Ethereum is that it markets itself as a smart-contracts platform, and you need to have an associated coin (Ether) to pay people to run the platform. But the number of Ether is fixed at 100,000,000ish. Which means that if
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by adwhit 9y ago
> for me what is great about Go is it removes BS and incidental complexity, & is just really well-designed and pleasant to work with. i happily choose it for personal projects. Go was the first compiled language I learned coming from
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by adwhit 9y ago
MongoDB has successfully played the 'hype first, features later' strategy. Now it is well on the way to being a decent swiss-army-knife database. The RethinkDB retrospective[0] contains a lot of insight into how MongoDB has succee
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by adwhit 9y ago
People do buy these things, so clearly there must be reasons for doing so. Point is, are they good reasons? And are they real reasons, or have they been put there by some big (and yes, evil) corporation? The BBC did a wonderfully subver
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by adwhit 9y ago
I think it's also important to understand that most of these companies are advertising companies first and foremost. Their business models revolve around the creation of demand for things that no rational society would want. Why would
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by adwhit 9y ago
> Either you know it mostly and this is boring, or you don't know it and you're in for a super-steep learning curve Or you sort-of-know-but-have-half-forgotten most of it and this is a nice refresher with a few interesting new
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by adwhit 9y ago
First - I spent a good amount of time with Pony attempting to make something similar to Wallaroo (on a much smaller scale), and it seems I hit the same problems as you re:FFI. Does it worry you that creating idiomatic C wrappers in Pony fee
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How do you read the memory maps of a Mac process?(jvns.ca)
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by adwhit 9y ago
I don't really care if the CEO goes the prison or not. If they personally pay a fine so great that they will be impoverished for the rest of their life, that would be good enough for me. The point it that no-one has actually been punis
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by adwhit 9y ago
'unsafe' doesn't mean unsafe. Unsafe means "I can't convince the compiler that this is safe. But in my context, it is." If there is any way in which a function containing an `unsafe` block may be used unsafely
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by adwhit 9y ago
White collar crime. It pays! Shouldn’t the CEO go to jail? That might make them behave themselves, and possibly go some way towards justifying their astronomical salaries.
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by adwhit 9y ago
Is there an altcoin which is indefinitely and exponentionally inflationary? Such a coin would not have the gold-rush/ponzi characteristics which bitcoin has, and there wouldn't be a such huge incentive to mine new coins so hopeful
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by adwhit 9y ago
Employing George Osborne for squillions straight from government is definitely unethical. How can he act in the best interest of the country when there is a colossal personal incentive to keep BlackRock et al on side during his tenure?
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by adwhit 9y ago
For sure. I've seen complete trading systems written in Excel macros. MS have played their hand very astutely and have managed to capture a large fraction of the enormous gap between cost-to-producer and value-to-user. Keeping things t

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