avasthe

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by avasthe 6y ago
That is pretty common in low level domains. Rust instead comes with complexity of borrowck and lifetimes management no matter how rustaceans say it is second nature.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Performance, startup time, JVM dependence, dynamic typing. And the cult around zero information statements by Rich Hickey.
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by avasthe 6y ago
They didn't have corporate backing. They didn't have aggressive marketing or zealous community. They didn't have massive influx from ruby rails or javascript webshit crowds.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Rewrite it in rust is not mature reaction from rust community. It is similar to arch linux btw boys you see in Linux communities. And GP is right, you rust folk talk as if sum types are silver bullet. And you people also talk as if rust inv
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by avasthe 6y ago
Everything is inefficient. There is a huge class of "developers" that don't understand what O(n) means, and a subset of them are vocally proud of it.
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by avasthe 6y ago
I don't disagree. But working at apple is not much better.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Most of the world doesn't run fine. The manager who was previously an accountant can't see the benefits of reliability, security or performance, and hires some straight-out-of-the-bootcamp people.
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by avasthe 6y ago
You are missing the point. How many actually try to reproduce the results by writing corresponding code themselves? Apparently lot of papers with slightly wrong findings because code errors have passed the peer review (all of us in the SWE
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by avasthe 6y ago
Lack of type safety and design with no regards to performance.
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by avasthe 6y ago
What's sad is they only support very few selected Add Ons.
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by avasthe 6y ago
If anything, it proves how ineffective standards committees are. Similar to the standard library proposal which seems to be not yet implemented. Still better than C++ standard people who try to cram infinite complexity into 100 layers of te
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by avasthe 6y ago
> The 'modern' people chiming in about how to "search faster" are missing an aspect of the experience that is literal and measureable, as well as partially undefineable simply because the portion of the mind and sense
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by avasthe 6y ago
Tangentially related; is there no lint option (similar to use strict) in JS yet to ensure no methods / functions are dynamically called and thus allow effective dead code elimination?
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by avasthe 6y ago
$10 per month is too costly for many, we are happy with 30 GB per month 4G data which costs around $2.
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by avasthe 6y ago
This is actually true. The fake news is over the limits. The elder generation believes some WhatsApp forwarded message so easily that WhatsApp and Facebook are political propaganda machines. Google about "Whatsapp University" meme
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by avasthe 6y ago
This is why I disable background data for individual apps and keep data saver on whenever possible. Also, browsing can be something like: - Ad blocking - Javascript disabled by default - remote fonts disabled - media eg imag
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by avasthe 6y ago
Go GC has some smart people working on it too. And Go, by the virtue of having less features, has to allocate quite more. Eg: Go doesn't have lazy ranges / streams. Dynamic dispatch using interfaces has to allocate memory on heap.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Use i.reddit.com or use a lightweight open source client like redreader or slide (for android, sure there is something for iOS)
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by avasthe 6y ago
Fine. I was too aggressive. I have to apologize. But I still suspect there is some subtle oracle propaganda on this site. I don't mean pron is part of that though, they're an employee, and naturally defend it in many discussions,
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by avasthe 6y ago
You are biased because you don't like that the age of companies selling expensive development environments is over. And you jump in to defend Oracle every discussion. I respect your knowledge and breadth of experience, but your biases
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by avasthe 6y ago
^this is an oracle employee speaking Everyone else puts a disclaimer on HN. You Oracle people are not special. Edit: I know I am getting severely downvoted for this. But there are some Oracle shills around here.
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Explain Xkcd: Category Programming(explainxkcd.com)
2 points by avasthe 6y ago|0 comments
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Eliminating Static Overhead of Ranges(vector-of-bool.github.io)
1 points by avasthe 6y ago|0 comments
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by avasthe 6y ago
Yeah I believe many programmers don't like their donations going to a non technical overpaid CEO's salary or activism instead of browser or technical projects like rust.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Yeah success can lead to all these. Especially when shareholders demand it or someone in marketing gets the idea. In general programmers don't get that much evil ideas.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Distributed schemes don't take off. Especially this one can lead to severe privacy / security loopholes. And what about people who rarely come online / have limited bandwidth? A more realistic dream would be finding good algo
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by avasthe 6y ago
> Also Hacker News: fuck Safari. We are all talking about something between Lynx and Safari.
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Can modern software be snappy? (2008)(blog.brush.co.nz)
38 points by avasthe 6y ago|39 comments
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by avasthe 6y ago
This. To win over non tech people, there should be at least one "killer feature" out of the box. In case of Google Chrome it was speed. In case of Google search, it was quality of results. In case of whatsapp, it was availability
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by avasthe 6y ago
> It's not about the patterns being wrong, it's about the patterns being verifiable and having a compiler that's on your side, not on the side of watching the world burn. Yeah, but not all programs genuinely need to be mul

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