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Several core problems with Rust(bykozy.me)
159 points by byko3y 11mo ago|329 comments
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Show HN: Shared Transactional Memory Extension for CPython(github.com)
2 points by byko3y 5y ago|0 comments
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by byko3y 6y ago
I'm the author of the article. You can write questions and suggestions here, on habr.com, or using my mail (byko3y_at_gmail_com).
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Making Python's dream of multithreading come true(habr.com)
2 points by byko3y 6y ago|1 comments
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by byko3y 6y ago
>"It would be better" if someone designed it from the beginning with current applications in mind. But if anyone actually did that back in 1980, they wouldn't have been successful Strongly disagree. Although x86 was domina
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by byko3y 6y ago
>I recently wrote a C base class ( https://jcristharif.com/quickle/#structs-and-enums ) for defining dataclass-like-types that's noticeably faster (~5-10x) to init/copy/serialize/compare than other
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by byko3y 6y ago
Frankly speaking, I had this impression too. The reason why JVM and JS uses own bytecode for implementing JIT-compilation is because main means of optimization are inlining and vector scalarization (convert complex object to simple ones). E
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by byko3y 6y ago
>The real truth is: hiring is a crapshoot. For any position and any field. Software engineering is no different I tried building spaceship and failed. Fiend of mine tried building a spaceship and failed too. However, I know of people who
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by byko3y 6y ago
>In a sane world we would already have webviews on all platforms and the problem mostly solved for client applications Isn't WebView kind of work around for web browser being overbloated? I mean they made single instance of browser
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Price seems to range from ~$2000 to ~$4500 to use it, which feels a bit steep Yeah, I feel like Embarcadero/Borland took a completely wrong turn with their price policy. Instead of making the tool widespread and make small money fr
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by byko3y 6y ago
>I routinely encountered scenarios where accidentally passing values of the wrong type to core standard lib functions produced wildly unexpected behavior that would take hours or even days to debug Could you provide a concrete example? I
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Server-side rendering is a business need not a programming need. A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation The topic is about general desktop GUI applications. Some users of desktop applications
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Compared to Slack it was barebones. You had a list of conversations and a view for the conversations themselves. I'm not saying it's bad; I'd probably prefer it in fact. But it's not the same product as Slack. This c
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by byko3y 6y ago
><video> being enough to embed a video into the view versus subclassing a C++ Qt class or whatever song and dance it is in other frameworks What are you going to do with the video? Coz that's where the problems with electron b
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Chromium is the best UI toolkit ever created. What exactly are the arguments against Electron? Because it looks ugly (i.e. non-native) on pretty much every platform. Qt has different levels of success at that, having most problems with
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by byko3y 6y ago
>I created a sort-of wiki page of her in my personal notes app. But then I went to the actual page and found the same information there Usually when I read wiki written by more than one man and need something more complex than "born
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Why have a knowledge base when anything is easily googleable? Because it isn't. It's not even close to "anything". Only superficial things are googlable, and even then google's NN algorithms sometimes manage to
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by byko3y 6y ago
Yeap, same here. The last time when I actually created from scratch classes with inheritance was like 8 years ago. I never made this mistake again and used inheritance only when forced to by creators of some library.
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by byko3y 6y ago
The answer is simple: don't use AWS. You will never get out of this hole unless you move from AWS, because AWS is not scalable budget-wise.
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by byko3y 6y ago
First of all, I just want to empasize there exist kinda three layers: data -> presentation -> decoration. HTML still acting as a presentation, but in SPA it also acts as a decoration together with CSS. Secondly, we need to find what t
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by byko3y 6y ago
>I'm not clear what you're describing with "flexbox scrolling"? "position: absolute" can be used to disrupt the two-way size propogation. Without it you either get shrinked content on y, flexbox wrapping pro
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by byko3y 6y ago
>I too am an SPA guy, specifically because I like the clean separation between data and presentation they allow, which HTML simply doesn't HTML was never intended to separate data and presentation. That's what PHP and other ser
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by byko3y 6y ago
I'm pretty sure today's web is going at least two different directions that can't be easily merged together. On one side we have textual and basic graphical data that is supposed to be controlled by user, like resizing, scali
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by byko3y 6y ago
>Consider that with chrome (and chromium based browser) we're close to the situation we had back in the days with IE. >So I'd say open standard definition for web API should come first, later each browser will have their own
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by byko3y 6y ago
>7. Drop support for CSS `position:`, there's better alternatives now & it does more visual harm than good Tell me an alternative to flexbox scrolling with "position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0". I
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by byko3y 6y ago
That's a misleading information, because ARM binaries are actually smaller than similar x86 binaries. Here's a tcpdump example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254418/difference-b... MIPS 32 bit
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by byko3y 7y ago
Rescue services were a good example indeed. Software developers are needed for people processing large amount of information, while local communities can do well with simple solutions.
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by byko3y 7y ago
You could check a pretty well-known economist Khazin e.g. worldcrisis.ru.
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by byko3y 7y ago
They are not something private and hidden, it's more like a diamonds lying in the road dust because people are just too busy to stop and take a close look at something, unless it jumps right into them in a form of a colorful advertisem
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by byko3y 7y ago
As a former radio amateur I can tell you the emergency services use radio extensively for communication and no IT skills are required there. The simpler solution is more reliable. That's one of the reasons coding skills are not require

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