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   by beefsack 11y ago

   What Apple are doing with Metal feels eerily similar to what Microsoft did when they launched DirectX back in the day. If we're lucky, it won't be as successful; decades of graphic stack fragmentation hasn't been pleasant to
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   It is open source, but it's not FOSS.
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   I absolutely love being a programmer and wish there were more hours in the day for me to tinker with stuff and spend time on toy projects. I'm impartial to working as a programmer, though it pays the bills quite well.
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   Anyone who came to the comments without RTFA, I urge you to go have a look. The visualisations are brilliant.
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   The cynic in me feels this is a vendor lock-in strategy, not unlike Microsoft's strategies around providing free and cheap copies of Windows and Office to schools and students.
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   I wonder how many books would be on the list if it were somehow easy to extract mentions by name instead of by link. Mythical Man Month is mentioned regularly here and I don't think it's linked very often because of how well know
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   High density automated parking is a solved problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   Please make a dark version!
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   by beefsack 11y ago

   Avoid the default subscriptions, they're absolute garbage. Reddit subcommunities, especially technical ones, have some fantastic discussion in them.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    It's important to note thought that there was always a fairly significant grey market for consoles and games in China. Some big department stores even sold major consoles and games, including Friendship Stores[1] which are state run. [
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    Go actually uses a mix of tabs and spaces in gofmt, tabs for baseline indentation and spaces after that for vertical alignment.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    I'm quite happy with my SCM keeping it's greasy fingers out of my source.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    > what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really? I'd imagine you'd be less nonchalant about it if you were transferring gigabytes of data from a backup in an emergency.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    If only there was some open protocol to support large scale group chat.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    You could potentially use that task as an availability test too.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    Is it only in the US in which Scouts are called Boy Scouts? It's just been called "Scouts" here in Australia for as long as I can remember, I was a member about 20 years ago and we had quite a few girls in our group back the
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    I'm yet to see strong objective reasoning either for or against JSX, it seems to really polarise people. From an Elm perspective, I feel that the HTML API is well designed and doesn't get in the way, so I'm not entirely fuss
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    It's worth pointing out that Uber has already become massive in China; whenever I'm in Guangzhou there are a ridiculous amount of rides available and you're rarely waiting more than a few minutes.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    People using stupid captioned images in their blog posts and technical announcements are a real turn off for me; I'm not sure if people are trying to be funny or edgy but it comes off really lame and childish. Feels like being in one
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    This is one side of the story, don't forget that.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    Specifically: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#FileServer
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    Ask HN: Declarative database migrations?

    11 points by beefsack 11y ago|8 comments
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    I'd be interested to hear the benefits over the successful Kickstarter[1] LazerBlade[2], which looks much simpler but is less than half the price at retail. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537608281/
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    I switched from YCM to neocomplete[1] a few months ago and haven't looked back, performance is much better. I'm on Arch and never really had crashes with YCM, but if the crashes are performance related it might help. [1] https:&
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    Horses for courses; the web works well for content, apps work well for interactivity.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    > F# has had opensourced compiler Not just open source, it's free under the Apache license. https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/blob/master/Licens...
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    Would love to see the ability to build Android apps too now that Android support has been released.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    I'm still yet to be convinced that JSX is a good idea, why break existing tooling and significantly complicate parsers for what appears to only be a minor convenience at the surface level? Mithril manages similar functionality without
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    What has happened here feels very similar to vigilantism.
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    by beefsack 11y ago

    This is very kind of you and Pusher, but I have to be honest, if I'm to ever consider hosting something like this I'd like the option to be entirely self hosted and not reliant on external services.