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by batista 14y ago
> Not as good as Franklin's list in my opinion, but it's exactly the type of thing you're saying we need, there are many boy scouts, and there are other organizations with similar goals and explicitly taught virtues. Perhaps you should
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> Couldn't it be that history books give a sanitized view of society, and gloss over relatively minor issues such as disobedient youths? The books might say, "young people were expected to be x, y, and z", and tactfully omit, "but they
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Yeah, and maybe that's the problem. The lack of the same attitude, I mean, not the beatings. As in: http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/10/why-american-kids-are-brats... et al.
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> Instead, they went out and developed a neat little feature that yes, has its problems, but it works and it's a little more innovative than a button-based interface. Have the read the article? The problem is that it doesn't work, for
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> Maybe we're succeeding at passing on these character qualities to our kids at a higher rate than at any time in the past? Not judging by the behaviour people one sees in any major city, or their kids, compared to historical norms of
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At least it's better than C. And Java is also a place, Python is an serpent. The key to Googlability for everything is to put the right context keywords. Nobody just google's "go" (or "java" for that matter). They google stuff like "go stri
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> Smartphones have become a commodity in the developed world. Whereas startups are rare?
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> The obvious flaw of this approach is that the majority of people might have written their software in a less than optimal language for reasons unrelated to productivity. Proponents of niche languages, almost by definition, never have
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> When you say that Go currently isn't very fast, maybe you should try coding something in it. I found it to be suprisingly fast. I've tried in in 2-3 things which I re-implemented afterwards in C and had before in Python. In all cases
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Please don't (refrain). It's not like ANY and ALL HN conversations don't get derailed in some sub-thread or another. Plus, it is insightful to here comments from a language designer/implementor in language related threads.
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Several typos, sorry, here's a particularly bad case: "I meant high level stuff on _one_ hand like _denormalized_ data."
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Haven't happened for the last 2 years we've been waiting for them.
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> Programming languages are standalone products, that can evaluated regardless of their environment. Only in some abstract way, that is of no consequence to the practice of programming. Because in the real world the environment very mu
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> This all strikes me as an example of a sunk-cost fallacy. Either memristors will make more money, or they won't. If they will, it doesn't matter that you have a billion dollars invested in X that won't be useful anymore, because you'v
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> The popularity of the language and the applications built in it are irrelevant to the quality of the language itself. This borders on the mystical. There is no intrinsic quality that a language has if that quality can not be measured
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> Carbon -> Cocoa was a massive change. So was PPC -> x86. 1) Both were necessary. Carbon was a stop-gap port of the old Mac way and incompatible with the OS X design, and the x86 transition had to be made because the PPC mobil
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That doesn't mean they cant take advantage of ready-made "functional architectural components" for each of their needs. So they can pick and match from the "scalable read only" commodity system, the scalable "message routing system" etc.
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> I can think of 3 subsystems within Reddit alone (reading, voting, and messages) that all have different usage patterns and (if they're doing it right) require different approaches to scaling. Yes, and those would be the same in all s
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> I disagree. The negative items are things that people are used to but not necessarily the best solution to the problem That's what you say, and it might be true or not, but you don't get to use Yegge's list and count positives/negati
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> The burden of proof is not on the Lisp community to prove the worth of its fifty year old technology. Lisp outdates C-based languages by at least a decade, so it really should be up to C and the other new languages to prove their wort
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> Going by popularity, C syntax is indeed king. In the 16th century, going by popularity, it was best not to shower or otherwise clean yourself. Only I didn't go by popularity, I went by results: most of the must-have programs the worl
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> I would love to see a scientific method to measure developer productivity that isn't ridiculously flawed in completely obvious ways. So far I haven't seen one. Well, just use the good old empirical method then. Of all the programs ou
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I've stopped following KDE like 5 years ago, but I remember constant changes to the multimedia APIs. Also each new QT version (2->3->4, now 5) brings incompatibilities, no?
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News/Magazine/Portal like (read heavy), Game site (evented, concurrent users, game engine computations), Social Platform (read-write heavy), etc. Most needs are bog standard. If you really look at most successful sites they use might same-i
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> If you are looking for a new language you are not looking for the right thing. We already have the language of mathematics and the homoiconic programming language Lisp. What we need isn't a new language, its a new platform which uses
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[while checking Yegge's list the NBL should have:] > The final tally is 11 affirmative, 7 negative Yes, but among the negative are items with far most importance than among the affirmative.
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Compared to what? Reddit is damn fast. And this table structure has nothing to do with Reddit speed. The pages you get, 99.999% of them come from Cassandra and caches, pre-rendered. So no, reddit is not slow, even less "so slow", and no, th
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> It's because "how to make a website scale" depends heavily upon which website, what it does, and how big it needs to be. Making a messaging queue like Twitter or G+ scale is very different from making Google Search scale. Hell, making
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"Because it happens" is not a very good technical answer. Anything can happen, even 1GB session data. But even anything approaching even half a MB of session data I would take as an architectural failure, and work to fix it, instead of lett
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> This transition in modern armies from soldiers to different types of drones really scares me. Drones can easily be deployed on home soil against any kind of anti-government protests. The government would need just a few hundred of loy

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