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by bbatha 10y ago
You can see the influence of YouTube most on channels that used to show cheap, often educational content. There's a reason discovery, food network, and the history channel are dominated by reality T.V. these days. Why watch watch my fa
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by bbatha 10y ago
Go scores infinity actually. Go generate is a part of the language, which means that you can bring your own Turing-complete language to the party. Reflection especially with plugins, are essentially another language that is even more diffic
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by bbatha 10y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Opening up code in voting machine would be leagues better than leaving it closed source. At least other experts in the field could verify it. Its also not like every citizen today can or understa
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by bbatha 10y ago
I wish microsoft would stop producing 32 bit windows, its just an excuse for hardware manufactures to get away with pre-loading windows on sub-standard hardware.
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by bbatha 10y ago
Just wait until you go on vacation for two weeks and they change the init system. That was a fun `pacman -Syu`.
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by bbatha 10y ago
It also makes shortcuts discoverable! Just hit the alt-key and virtually every thing pops up with it hot key. Hitting alt in a standard windows app only tells me what menus are available, not which actions are available.
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by bbatha 10y ago
That article is a concession speech on why generics are useful. Every single "trick" in the article is titled with the name of the equivalent method in more powerful languages. I don't think its possible to look at that list
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by bbatha 10y ago
I made some arguments about this in another place in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188869
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by bbatha 10y ago
> At least Go reuses the git protocol to its advantage. I think this is a mistake. Packaging should come from a central server (that can be overriden with a mirror). Allowing downloads from adhoc git repositories is a real pain. First, i
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by bbatha 10y ago
vendoring is a solution to the problem of reproducability, not the problem of distribution. Vendoring particularly for application code should be at least an optional part of whatever solution is chosen by the go team. Vendoring is not the
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by bbatha 10y ago
> If China wanted the US to suffer, they'd just create versions of ISIS for each minority group—persuasive ideologies that present violence as the only option—and watch as the country tears itself apart. The USSR tried to pursue a s
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by bbatha 10y ago
And HBO
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by bbatha 10y ago
Investment banking existed under Glass-Steagall. Investment banks were just restricted from participated in commercial banking.
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by bbatha 10y ago
I watched a video on this a few years ago, his reason for C++ is because QT basically requires it. He originally tried to write it in C using GTK, and hated GTK so he switched to C++/QT.
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by bbatha 11y ago
> - Built-in concurrency This is a bit misleading, rust does not come with concurrency out of the box. The compiler is able to infer some basic properties of your program to ensure that it is 'concurrency safe'[1] any additiona
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by bbatha 11y ago
Well VMS also had this nonsense for fully qualified paths, NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver everything except filename.type is optional based on the users current DEFAULT (pwd in unix pa
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by bbatha 11y ago
> Other Secretaries of State hadn't done anything like that. They actually have, the FBI is auditing the last 4 Secretaries of State and has found similar use of private email servers [1]. Outside of the state department the Bush ad
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by bbatha 11y ago
The closest is really backpacking food that you can find at your local outdoor store. You can get freeze dried versions of pretty much whatever you want. The military also produces meals ready to eat (MREs) which are fairly easy for civilia
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by bbatha 11y ago
Its in beta right now and the current blockchain will be reset at 1.0 invalidating current coins. So buying in right now is pointless.
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by bbatha 11y ago
> Surprisingly, rustc optimizer makes sure that this performs as well as the index-wrangling implementation (according to some simple tests I just ran). Frequently functional style optimizes better than the equivalent loop and index impl
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by bbatha 11y ago
I'd love an invite. bhbatha {at} gmail.com
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by bbatha 11y ago
They don't support group chat anymore.
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by bbatha 11y ago
I'll wait until the numbers start to roll in for the outflanking. I'm not convinced that offline is the same killer feature for videos that it is for music. I'd argue that most people streaming movies do it on large format de
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by bbatha 11y ago
RHEL 6 doesn't include it. So that's most of enterprise deployments...
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by bbatha 11y ago
> The advantage of threads is that it makes easier to share data Sharing of data is of marginal benefit when you have to pay the cost of duplicating all of your data to begin with. Perl also has modules that make forks just as easy to us
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by bbatha 11y ago
Let's not pretend perl threads solve concurrency issues in dynamic languages. The third item in the threads perldoc, after the table of contents and the version, is a big, fat warning about how you shouldn't use them [1]: > The
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by bbatha 11y ago
Leaving a loop before wrapping the small end largely fixes the problem with the cables. Like so [1]. Though I shouldn't have to do it the first place. 1: http://www.tested.com/tech/5480-how-to-properly-coil-a-macbo
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by bbatha 11y ago
Its a fork that has a different development focus. The biggest difference is that the OpenBSD version has an improved config file format, and the the FreeBSD one supports SMP.
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by bbatha 11y ago
ssh-agent solves that problem.
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by bbatha 11y ago
Though OCaml supports lazy very well with the lazy keyword.

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