axelf

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by axelf 12y ago
Corvette Z06 can do 0-60 in ~3s for $80k
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by axelf 12y ago
I also had issues with it crashing safari on an ipad
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by axelf 12y ago
The inkling app lets you buy ebooks. https://www.inkling.com/
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by axelf 12y ago
why were they using python for performance critical code in the first place? Go seems closer to java's niche to me.
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by axelf 12y ago
wouldn't a single abstraction over postgres, filesystem, hadoop, etc be either really leaky or really inefficient? different datastores are better suited for certain kinds of queries. It seems like the programmer should be aware of wha
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by axelf 13y ago
I'm assuming that the Iteratee companion object uses implicits to get the client connection. I'd really prefer something more explicit like socket.io's approach.
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by axelf 13y ago
The special language syntax is being removed. Its now just a library.
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by axelf 13y ago
It seems like most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon which recently 1.0. Im curious why that is, have you looked at ceylon?
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by axelf 13y ago
It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternity? When javascript was introduced it only worked on netscape
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by axelf 13y ago
How is this proprietary? Isnt there an open spec?
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by axelf 13y ago
Then send a pull request
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by axelf 13y ago
I've heard this argument from people refusing to install packages that depend on haskell too. I don't get it, 294mb is a trivial amount of space nowadays.
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by axelf 13y ago
I think java 8 gets rid of permgen
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by axelf 13y ago
why even use EC2 then? It would be much cheaper to use any other hosting provider.
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by axelf 13y ago
not to mention loading up the OS with a ton of crapware and free trials.
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by axelf 13y ago
you're not factoring in the advertising money they're missing out on with digital downloads.
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by axelf 13y ago
I have taken a 40min commuter bus everyday for nearly 2 years and I never had to get off early to use the bathroom.
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by axelf 13y ago
Not to mention binary blobs are at least slightly more free than having the firmware built in to the device, which the FSF doesn't object to. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature
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by axelf 13y ago
I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQuery will work fine, but with a larger project that you real
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by axelf 13y ago
I assumed they meant "WiFi only models"
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by axelf 13y ago
But since you have to use casts you are giving up some advantages of static typing, right?
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by axelf 13y ago
Does Go not provide method overloading? Couldn't they have 3 versions of the copy method?
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by axelf 13y ago
Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman#AIPAC_controversy
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by axelf 13y ago
unless you assume the NSA has the root SSL certs.
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by axelf 13y ago
But then you have to pay stripe's transaction fee. Why not use something like venmo that is free when you use it with ACH?
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by axelf 13y ago
The first one requires a global method. The angular one is a method that is tightly scoped and easy to test.
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by axelf 14y ago
So if you're adding tests to an existing repo do you have to copy the whole repo first instead of doing a pull request?
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by axelf 14y ago
I don't see why this has to be perfect. I know a lot of people who live off of potato chips, cookies, and soda. Surely this diet would be better than that.
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by axelf 14y ago
I don't understand why everyone on this thread is making it seem like this impossible. I feed my dog the same food and portion every single day. He is lean, muscular, and full of energy all day. We're both mammals, how different could it be