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> They can supply better service at lower cost because they don’t have to line the pockets of executives and investors. Instead they line the pockets of bureaucrats, unions and the local mayor's brother in law who had a truck and &q
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> I don't think this approach is necessarily incompatible with garbage collection; theoretically a language like Go could have separate vector and slice types like Rust does, and I think that would make these types of optimizations
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All too often we focus on performance as the main problem we're trying to solve, when, in reality, our chief problem is managing complexity. A clever algorithm can often dramatically improve performance, but usually clever algorithms a
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You can read Ajit Pai's statement here: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017... > Today, I have shared with my colleagues a draft order that would abandon this failed approach and r
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For amazon you can use IAM roles tied to specific EC2 instances, then no credentials are ever stored, you simply make S3 API calls in your code and as long as the machine you're making them from has access to the bucket you can get to
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Google app engine has a cron service: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/conf... You'll have to create an app handler for the URL which can then make the outbound http request.
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> If they're uninformed, as soon as I explain that Comcast will essentially be able to do the same thing as cell data providers, charge for overages, and mention how this might affect Netflix. They are quickly for Net Neutrality. Ex
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Part of the reason has to do with Go's original primary use case: a server handling thousands of requests. In that environment a traditional debugger, at least in my experience, isn't super useful, because it models a single-stepp
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Basically because most "Exceptions" aren't very exceptional so errors should be handled as an ordinary part of your control flow.
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Prudent and Bitcoin are two words that don't belong in the same sentence. You never know when and if you're in a bubble until its too late, but the ludicrous growth isn't a good sign of stability.
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The hosted nonsense and poor linux and windows support is why I switched to enpass.
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> The fact that they don't even have the package management quality of python (which I find awful already) is baffling. I don't even know how they could think "yeah, github-importing is a good idea, let's do it".
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> There are downsides of course (no IPC) but I still argue that CPU is not the bottleneck for 99% of usage scenarios. I suppose my experience might be unusual, but I frequently log in to c3.8xlarge redis machines that have a single core
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This is single-threaded? What are you going to do with the other 31 or 63 cores? The single-threaded nature of applications liked Redis an Haproxy is a singificant impediment to their vertical scalability. CPUs aren't getting faster, w
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Go uses an m:n thread model. Goroutines are multiplexed onto a smaller number of os-level threads. They're sort of like threads, but they have a simplified programming model (There is no thread-level storage for example).
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Yes they do. To understand transubstantiation you need to understand the philosophy behind it. Aristotle made a distinction between the substance of a thing, the core, essential properties that "form" it, and the accidental proper
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Ironically one of the consequences of strict laws protecting endangered species is it actually leads to more destruction not less. A rancher notices a protected animal on his land and gets rid of it to avoid getting harangued by the governm
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It also allows a clever "entrepreneur" to game the system. In 6 months you'll be reading about it here on Hacker News: "How we lost millions due to an algorithmic oversight"
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A minimum wage is not direct. It's payed via an employer who also has the option of choosing not to hire someone or paying under the table. The minimum wage is always 0, so this policy will likely lead to more misery.
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The University's primary purpose for most people is to educate their children. There are major problems with the way it does this currently. It costs a fortune, fails to provide the necessary skills for the modern workforce and, in man
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You need to run multiple applications side-by-side and they need to be able to talk to each other. With containers that means figuring out the network layer and service discovery. It also means accounting for each system failing in your own
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Seems to have hit pagerduty pretty hard... your poor on-call guy may have no idea his app is busted.
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I think this has two major downsides: 1. Setting up containers and the communication between them is really complex - it also only makes sense for a deployed, long-running, server process. 2. Communication between containers is very expensi
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If you're curious, the behavior is well defined: golang.org/ref/mem
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Go's main compilation performance gains come from incremental compilation. Since C++ doesn't have real module support merely parsing the entire dependency graph from headers can take a very long time. In go if you have .a pkgs for
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Buses are subsidized too.
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There's a cautionary tale here for developers. If you're productive, hard-working and have enough grit to complete projects, you'll get noticed and handed even more responsibility. Eventually it will be more than any single d
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I try to focus on dividends and not growth when investing, but apparently not very many people do this, because my online brokerage does a really poor job showing this data over time. I suppose they purposefully avoid forecasting the divide
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Money doesn't decide elections, voters do. The campaign that spends more money doesn't always win. In fact there's good reason to think that most money spent on a campaign is largely wasted: > The most exciting and visible
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An example of such a test, taken from the Old Testament, is a shibboleth. From the book of Judges: Jephthah captured the shallow crossings of the Jordan River, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim tried to go back across, the men of Gilead

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