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by blaisio 6y ago
I think you might have bad information. Go is not a systems programming language. You may be thinking of Rust? Go and C++ serve very different needs.
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by blaisio 6y ago
Not sure why it being version 1.XX is a factor here. Actually that's one of Go's features- compatibility.
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by blaisio 6y ago
It is objectively more difficult to build strength using body weight exercises. Using a barbell or dumbbell allows for precise movements and gradual overload. Even body weight workout routines require equipment and space, which many people
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by blaisio 6y ago
Are you sure it's really a bad thing for a company to keep cash on hand? The airlines this year were bailed out because they chose not to keep cash on hand, and then they suddenly lost most of their revenue. So maybe it's actual
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by blaisio 6y ago
Looking at it from this angle is a very interesting idea. Languages like Go have to avoid a lot of abstractions to avoid increasing compile time. If we can narrow down the specific optimizations required, we can make better decisions about
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by blaisio 6y ago
It's stupid that it was closed source in the first place. The valuable stuff is on the server side. This is not really anything exciting, if they open sourced their servers, that would be very interesting.
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by blaisio 6y ago
Strong disagree. Incrementing the major version in cases like that is just going to confuse people.
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by blaisio 6y ago
Yes that's fair, with less code you have less to parse. Parsing time is ideally a negligible amount of time, especially because it can normally happen asynchronously, but for very large libraries I could see it being an issue.
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by blaisio 6y ago
You lose the ability to remove unused code, but for people using this, it doesn't matter, because it is cached anyway. The number of HTTP requests really does not matter much these days, because of HTTP2. And again for people who use t
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by blaisio 6y ago
Most people don't need to do that. You can build things you need as part of the image build. No need to setup a deb or rpm package unless you're also installing it that way somewhere else.
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by blaisio 6y ago
For python at least, fetching something from git is far slower than fetching it from pypi.
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by blaisio 6y ago
I could not disagree more re. the expiring credentials. It is a bad practice to have credentials that never expire, especially on developer laptops, especially credentials of this nature. Developers frequently store this stuff in plain text
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by blaisio 6y ago
I do prefer static self contained binaries, but I think it's important to note that Python's package management system is horrible, and making self contained binaries is not the only way to fix it.
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by blaisio 6y ago
10 years is very optimistic.
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by blaisio 7y ago
For MySQL, most of the time it is better to not use a real collation at all and just do utf8mb4_bin. This disabled weird features like case insensitivity. You do need to make sure you properly encode strings, especially if you are working w
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by blaisio 7y ago
I think this is a reminder - do not say or do inappropriate things using company resources (chat, email, VPN, etc). Don't complain about co-workers, don't joke about breaking the law, don't say or do anything rude or disrespe
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by blaisio 7y ago
Major advantages: - integrated online doctor visits, so you often don't need to go in - you can message someone with any health question and get a response within 24 hours - you can go to any location and they automatically pull up you
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by blaisio 7y ago
I think a lot of it is just good software. They seem to have a lot of things automated, they let patients indicate if they need a quick or long visit, etc.
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by blaisio 7y ago
Pull Reminders. Launched in 2018, acquired by GitHub in June 2019. A very good product that does one specific task really really well. I assume it was acquired for at least a few hundred thousand, if not a few million.
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by blaisio 7y ago
I could believe it is better for the environment to make hydrogen powered cars over cars with batteries filled with toxic chemicals.
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by blaisio 7y ago
I had the same experience. It tells me that poetry is on the right track but not ready for serious use yet.
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by blaisio 7y ago
It seems like this cements Google Cloud's lead in the hardware/infrastructure side. But the real problem with Google Cloud - the lack of software feature parity with AWS - is not addressed. If only there was a provider with AWS se
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by blaisio 7y ago
One major issue with disk based hash tables is rehashing. Actually, in-memory hash tables have the same problem, but most people don't notice it. Imagine your database suddenly duplicating itself because you inserted one row and sudden
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by blaisio 7y ago
I agree that they seem to have problems more frequently than AWS. I've been told it is frequently due to their network, which is incredibly advanced and efficient but also incredibly complex and therefore more easily broken.
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by blaisio 7y ago
This article is much higher quality than most of the stuff that gets to the front page. Awesome stuff.
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by blaisio 7y ago
It makes sense, if I was CEO and only 20% of employees were attending, and whatever I said at the meeting got leaked, I'd cancel them too. And I think most people would. Also, I think a lot of people just want to go to work and work, t
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by blaisio 7y ago
The code for the AWS billing system must be glorious. There are so many ways to pay for things, changing constantly, with an enormous number of accounts and even a number or ways to get credits back due to outages, customer support, or disc
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by blaisio 7y ago
> Most people who would bother with the matter at all would admit that the layout of Go projects is in a bad way. ... How? They just don't tell you that files have to be under a certain directory. It's beyond me how that upsets
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by blaisio 7y ago
Yes! I thought this was a great idea. The other thing I do is add a "MODULE:" prefix to my commit message. It makes them way more readable. Lots of other people do this too; you can see this in Redis, Linux, and Go codebases, for
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by blaisio 7y ago
I'm not sure if I believe it was really blizzard who cancelled it. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo cancelled it. They have a lot more to lose by becoming associated with Blizzard's controversy. Especially if there were pr

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