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by barsonme 9y ago
Go's lack of commercial support for previous versions is a non-issue. There's generally little reason why you can't just bump to the next minor version number. Go's 1.x promise means any code written for 1.1 will work on
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by barsonme 9y ago
A use case is taking files from S3 and then doing something with them. It's much easier an efficient to set up a Lambda function that gets "pinged" by S3 every time a new file is uploaded than it is to poll S3 for new files.
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by barsonme 9y ago
ISTM there should be a phrase they have to type in that's specific to each option. Those "are you sure? [y] [n]", "are you _really_ sure? [y] [n]" dialog boxes are easy to blindly click through. Typing is a physical
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by barsonme 9y ago
I can't think of anything more quintessentially British* than building a massive shrubbery through a country they were colonizing solely because it helped them tax the poor colonists better. * Well, British at least through some point
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by barsonme 9y ago
That sorta sounds great... if you're a bachelor. I doubt my SO would be very impressed if I ditched the cupboards for another dishwasher.
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by barsonme 9y ago
Heh. In my regular accent (American) I got 90% American (although, I got 99% American when I spoke normally and didn't purposefully enunciate). But my God-awful British accent got 98% British. It picked up on the parts of the generic B
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by barsonme 9y ago
You can't compress truly random data, though. I guess you'd have to sufficiently pad the stream with data that compresses to a constant bit rate.
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by barsonme 9y ago
Yeah, my cat's literally dug up moles before. I know NYC has mutant rats, but I'm sure it's not difficult to find a cat adventurous enough.
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by barsonme 9y ago
That's because it's a major city center, and even then people usually have a lot of complaints about Seattle's public transportation. Go an hour south in your state (or over to the eastern half) and you'll see what GP me
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by barsonme 9y ago
No worries, thanks for sharing!
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by barsonme 9y ago
(Just a warning for folks: it's a direct link to a .tar file, not a page with a list of files you can download.)
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by barsonme 9y ago
Well, seems like a difference of opinion, then. :-) Sure! That'd be nice.
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by barsonme 9y ago
> Do you really think Texas could revel and secede? Not Texas alone, but the 2A doesn't exist so Texas can secede. And it wasn't was I was referring to, anyway. It exists, among other reasons, to ensure the US government won&
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by barsonme 9y ago
Thanks for this—I was struggling to figure out how the cache timing attack worked until your comment.
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by barsonme 9y ago
> We are staking up to 30k lives a year on a comma. Well, 2/3 of those might be taken with other (possibly "worse," like suicide by cop or ODing) means. But, regardless. I understand what you mean. > That's not the
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by barsonme 9y ago
There are already laws against speech that incites violence as well as laws against violence, no?
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by barsonme 9y ago
> federal laws have been more and more relaxed as the likes of NRA lobby and bully congress. How so? Also, keep in mind the _entire_ gun lobby spends less than Microsoft does each year. It's pitifully small compared to many other
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by barsonme 9y ago
(I hope you don't mind me quoting parts of your comment—it helps me categorize stuff.) > You say 60k deaths from guns is bad Well, 30k. And I'm not saying the 4 deaths are okay, I'm saying it's not an epidemic and,
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by barsonme 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by your first sentence. Even if only 0.9% of cases involved resistance with a firearm, it still totals over 87,000 a year which is nearly 3x the rate of _all_ firearm deaths. It's over 9x the ra
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by barsonme 9y ago
> Yet there is no damn evidence for this. This is blatantly incorrect. From the Violence Policy Center: "Using the NCVS numbers, for the three-year period 2012 through 2014, the total number of self-protective behaviors involving a
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by barsonme 9y ago
You miss my point.
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by barsonme 9y ago
> See, I want to send my kids to school and be reasonably sure that some idiot can’t go down the street, buy a couple of rifles, and murder them and their classmates. Everybody does. Let's not be disingenuous, though: the chances on
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by barsonme 9y ago
While I think it's awesome D can do that (and am a bit jealous the languages I use regularly don't have any real sort of constexpr) what does that _really_ provide? It would seem the startup cost of building a regexp engine would
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by barsonme 9y ago
You are aware what website you're on, right? ;)
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by barsonme 9y ago
Would this be as controversial if they money went to a third-party (i.e., not a Wal-Mart-run) charity? The idea is something good—keeping low-level, non-violent offenders out of the legal system and saving taxpayer dollars. But it does seem
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by barsonme 9y ago
Ah, sorry, you meant function-scoped vs block-scoped not just in general. Yeah, agreed.
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by barsonme 9y ago
It's not terribly uncommon for larger functions to do something like func someSQLStuff() { tx, err := createTx() defer func() { if err != nil { tx.Rollback() lo
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by barsonme 9y ago
No, not scary and confusing. Users (meaning non-power-users, generally) aren't always stupid. (In fact, given how well they can break our stuff, I'd say they're often smarter. But I digress...) What I'm saying is while w
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by barsonme 9y ago
> but that doesn't mean those who chose differently are assholes. GP did not say that, even indirectly. A more charitable interpretation of GP's post could be, "Facebook gives you the illusion you're keeping in touch
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by barsonme 9y ago
And developers vastly overestimate how much users really want bland websites like we had 10+ years ago. Sure, _we_ like it because it can be great for "power users" like _us_, but 99% of the population aren't power users. It

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