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by atombender 10y ago
There are probably as many languages using "nil" as there are ones that call it "null". Nil: Ruby, Go, Oberon, Modula-2, Swift, various Pascal dialects, Lisp?. Null: C/C++, Java, Rust, JavaScript, Ada. Then, of cour
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by atombender 10y ago
As a Mac user who's considering switching to Linux as a desktop OS, I gave this a go inside VMware. I sincerely hope this isn't the best Linux distro in 2016, because that was... underwhelming. Not quite a trainwreck, but still pr
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by atombender 10y ago
Nice, thanks. I'd like something like that, but generalized for any output, not just progress bars.
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by atombender 10y ago
You missed another, big reason: "Fewer, simpler moving parts" is the main reason I would prefer if Kubernetes could run without Docker as a container runtime. At the moment, Kubelet needs to control the Docker daemon (a somewhat
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by atombender 10y ago
Apparently this: https://twitter.com/WardCunningham/status/785960076041302016
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by atombender 10y ago
The link between long options and poor documentation is something you'll have to prove, I'm afraid. I'm not buying it. You've also yet to show that long options is some kind of "great crime" that hurts anyone.
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by atombender 10y ago
I'm sorry, but that smacks of post-rationalization. Brevity used to be a benefit in the old days with slow connections, but the examples you give are also a small set of super-frequently-used coreutils commands. There are plenty of les
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by atombender 10y ago
I ran each test four times and picked the best result — not my first rodeo — but for the first result I picked the wrong time from my output, which obviously didn't make use of the cache. Here's it again, complete result, added --
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by atombender 10y ago
> Your criticism comes down to ... No, those were only the two most obvious, easiest-to-solve examples that came to mind. With all due respect to you and your Rust colleagues (who have done a lot of impressive work), "we made choice
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by atombender 10y ago
Rust is exceptionally noisy and terse. Easily worse than C++, in my opinion, which is known for being noisy. Two things bug me in particular. Rust eschews readability by erring on the side of terseness — fn instead of something like func, f
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by atombender 10y ago
Yegge's predictions don't always come through, but he basically predicted Clojure. (The "someone will Thorvalds Arc" bit.)
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by atombender 10y ago
"Rebuild trust"? This is the first stable release. Every single release before than was called a "Development Release" (and Protobuf 3.0 only came out of beta less than a month ago), so of course they've been brea
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by atombender 10y ago
I like this piece by Louis Menard in the New Yorker: "Honest, Decent, Wrong" [1], which is deeply critical of Orwell, including this essay: > “Big Brother” and “doublethink” and “thought police” are frequently cited as contribu
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by atombender 10y ago
The state management system always struck me as very flawed design, and it's the reason I've not yet used Terraform. After all, it means that you have to start from scratch. If you any existing infrastructure — instances, load
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by atombender 10y ago
Borland's IDEs (Turbo Pascal, etc.) also implemented the WordStar keyboard shortcuts and block behaviour, and it was amazingly productive. You could mark a block (^KB to start, ^KK to end), and you could move around, find a place to in
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by atombender 10y ago
Apples all the way. Etcd is pretty much a clone of ZooKeeper in Go; they both support hiearchical keys, atomic autoincrement, watches, though Etcd uses the Raft consensus algorithm, whereas ZooKeeper uses its own homegrown algorithm, and th
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by atombender 10y ago
This misses one huge benefit of JWTs: Other parties can trust your token if they were not the ones to sign it. For example, say client A calls service B, using a token signed by service C. Previously, we were using randomly generated sessio
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by atombender 10y ago
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on HN.
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by atombender 10y ago
I'm using a $50 Mikrotik hAP AC Lite (RB952Ui-5ac2nD-US) as a home router. It's not the most high-powered router — it only has a single 5GHz radio, no antenna, and the Ethernet port is 10/100 only — but it's stunningly s
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by atombender 11y ago
Turbo Pascal 5.x and onwards were implemented using Turbo Vision, a really good, object-oriented UI framework [1]. Every view could render a sub-rectangle of itself on command into a buffer, which is how the UI was able to render drop shado
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by atombender 11y ago
If you look at how compilers are written these days, one other thing has changed. Almost every book on compiler design, including the classics, will direct you towards separating the lexer, scanner and compiler stages using parser generator
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by atombender 11y ago
I can recognize a non-native Qt right app away. There's something off about it. The project author is absolutely right, cross-platform UIs are terrible.
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by atombender 11y ago
A lot of people are focusing on your sorting comment, but I want to point out that your 1M LOC is already benefiting from generics. Slices, map and chan are polymorphic types, and functions like make(), len(), append(), copy(), etc. are gen
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by atombender 11y ago
As someone who has used RabbitMQ in production for many years, you should rather consider using NATS [1] for RPC. RabbitMQ's high availability support is, frankly, terrible [2]. It's a single point of failure no matter how you tur
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by atombender 11y ago
ActorDB is very cool, but from what I gather it's — at least nominally — designed to work with many small databases (one per "actor") as opposed one large one, and that the constraints it puts on the query model means you hav
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by atombender 11y ago
Code is line-oriented and usually monospaced. Prose is not, and usually requires local layout (spacing, alignment and so on), embedded media (such as images) and variable typography.
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by atombender 11y ago
We've been using Clubhouse for about two weeks, having transitioned from Asana, which we found lacking in many respects. (Before then, we used Trello, which we also found to be not fit our workflow very well.) So far, Clubhouse has bee
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Ask HN: What do you use for microservice RPC?
6 points by atombender 11y ago|11 comments
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by atombender 11y ago
Joe Armstrong's paper on the history of Erlang (of which he was one of the authors) is superb (though it's less about corporate culture than about the language): http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~maria/classes/45
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by atombender 11y ago
Armstrong's paper about the history of Erlang is fantastic. It explains how Erlang was developed through a process of trial and error, initially in Prolog and then inheriting a Prolog-like syntax when it became its own thing. Worth rea

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