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by awj 13y ago
Inexperience. lib/ quickly turns into a dumping ground unless you are careful to keep it clear of business logic.
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by awj 13y ago
I perfectly well understand how threading works. Read the rest of the comment that you cherry picked that quote from, it's about being upset at how npm doesn't seem to be taking it's responsibility seriously. If you had some
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by awj 13y ago
How is that comparison at all relevant?
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by awj 13y ago
That's ... still a dangerous way to accomplish the update. You're disabling a key safeguard that ensures you're actually talking to official npm servers, then re-enabling the safeguard after running the code that whoever-you-
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by awj 13y ago
You want to talk loaded comments? You're reducing "I'm glad to move away from a project that breaks functionality for all users with no notice" to a quibble over an SSL certificate change. That npm as a project thought t
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by awj 13y ago
If running "npm config get ca" on my not-yet-updated copy of npm is any indication, they were using the self signed certificate.
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by awj 13y ago
Where are you seeing any discrepancies from camelCase? The only thing I see is that types and constructors (i.e. Functor/Applicative/F) start with capital letters. Also, to be frank, many languages give a false sense of knowledge
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by awj 13y ago
His article was talking about abandoning a large product to do a ground-up rewrite without clear improvement goals beyond "make it easier to understand/work on". Servo meets basically none of those criteria.
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by awj 13y ago
Aren't the errors generated by nonconforming types a way to trace through the app? That's the point of a strong type system: code that by definition won't work isn't allowed to run.
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by awj 13y ago
Ugh, I really wish this overly simplistic view of the relationship would die. It only feels clever because it appeals to the big-companies-screw-everybody sentiment.
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by awj 13y ago
Have you been to the Bay Area? The general sentiment amongst the other cities is that Oakland is decidedly "not one of us".
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by awj 13y ago
All of the police I know are in favor of this. They want cameras on at all times that they ideally couldn't interfere with. Not only will those cameras protect the public from police misbehavior, it will protect officers from frivolous
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by awj 13y ago
"Don't leave your house, ever!" and "Don't try to stop and help anyone with anything" would also have prevented this. That doesn't make either of them good advice.
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by awj 13y ago
How do you expect Go to be faster than Java? Off the top of my head here's three reasons why I expect Go to be equal or slower in the general case: * the type system doesn't provide any more information to optimize against * lack
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by awj 13y ago
> it's just a matter of installing the VM's on the computer and modify the scripts. That can be a pretty huge "it's just". In practice many of the existing scripts make use of C bindings or rely on odd behaviors
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by awj 13y ago
Taking the measurements isn't really the thankless volunteer work involved here. The work is in ensuring new programs actually follow the intent of the benchmark and work across supported architectures. This isn't an automateable
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by awj 13y ago
That may be true, but there's a long tail to this too. Most of us can't help optimize the Gates Foundation's activities, but all of us doing our own little bit can still be a great force for societal improvement.
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by awj 13y ago
Do they "accept bitcoin" in the way that many big services do, where they get their payment out of bitcoin and into cash as soon as possible?
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by awj 13y ago
... not sure it's that simple. Angry Birds became popular in part because it's a fun game to play. The gameplay probably doesn't live up to the hype, but it's at least capable of living up to some amount of hype. Fla
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by awj 13y ago
This is the right answer. These licenses are all heavily vetted and can be safely used in almost any kind of project. The attribution requirements (when present) are straightforward and easy to resolve. You don't want people to have to
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by awj 13y ago
That's exactly the kinds of questions that this library shouldn't be raising.
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by awj 13y ago
I personally think it was embarrassingly dumb before the name change.
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by awj 13y ago
Well, yes, technically when you have no experience with a company or their products "good products and customer service" isn't your experience. Or, you know, you could provide some kind of details.
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by awj 13y ago
Right, but this crop of crappy old people will have learned that the wars on terror/drugs were mistakes bred of fear and ignorance. They'll sweep them off the board and clear space to make new and interesting mistakes out of fea
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by awj 13y ago
> Any decent programmer Your "decent programmer" is about as common as a Sufficiently Smart Compiler.
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by awj 13y ago
> Don't want your airplane to crash because you passed in square feet instead of meters per second? Airplane? Hah, think bigger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_f...
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by awj 13y ago
> If we're talking about the power to pretend a bool is a string or vice versa, then no thanks That's weak typing. JavaScript does this, Python and Ruby don't. Typically when people bring up the power of dynamic languages
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by awj 13y ago
You're confusing static typing with explicit typing. This is static typing's version of the "dynamic typing doesn't have to be weak typing" argument. There are a variety of languages that don't impose explicit
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by awj 13y ago
That changes pretty drastically with application size and age. My project at work is at least eight years old and pretty damn huge. It uses a considerable set of libraries, some of which are close to abandoned. Others we've hacked up
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by awj 13y ago
Best example I have is that Rails 3.0 -> 3.1 included the asset pipeline, which enabled some pretty nice speed improvements by making better use of the browser's caching system and minimizing the number of file downloads required fo

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