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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
The tour has the unfortunate property of being both a top result for many golang searches and not being deep-linkable. I welcome additional introductory material.
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
Go is an excellent contrast. Not only is the syntax spartan, but--especially if you include the built-in formatter gofmt--it has a fascist insistence on a uniform coding style. I don't agree with all its stylistic decisions, but I'd rather
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
And (as you note above), is 2.5 still getting critical bug fixes? There's a thin line between stable and stagnant.
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
I don't know what to make of this change. I always assumed goto was something you designed into your language from day one, rather than bolted on in day 4000 or so. Can someone more familiar with language design (or the target use cases--I
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
It's not. And you're right, the spec isn't clear. On the other hand, the current behavior of pretending the bits are arranged in 32-bit two's-complement fashion for appropriate integer values when applying bitwise operators is really the on
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
So can someone recommend a Ruby (edit: ideally Sinatra/Sequel, not Rails) app one could look at with a more principled test suite? I'm coming from a more traditional OO background and jumping into Ruby. It's good to see I'm not alone in fin
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
I'll second that. The first release with Unity (11.04?) was dradful. The second fixed some major issues, and now it's perfectly usable (unless you're particularly set in your ways). I run 12.04 on an older Eee, and it's not noticeably faste
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
Is it? One could argue that divorcing widgets from backend infrastructure so thoroughly is an asset.
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
To me, a turning point in my feelings on UX was reading Alan Cooper's "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" [1]. It's a little anti-engineer (he argues that engineers cannot do this right and you always need dedicated UX people), but he expl
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
The problem was that the HTML-plus-JavaScript paradigm was never meant for building applications . Sure, you don't need a framework if you're just sprucing up some web pages, but if you want to build a desktop-like app in the browser [1],
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
This reminds me of Alan Cooper's "The Inmates are Running the Asylum," where he argues that you can't please everyone and you should not be designing an application to solve all possible use cases because that's doomed to failure (or, at be
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
I used to think this, but my W520 has had more than its fair share of graphics problems (especially when I naïvely started with the Canonical-recommended 32-bit install; I've since gone 64-bit). It still won't link to an external display (a
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
>Depending on your application and how you're taking advantage of your database, you could drop-in replace a database. If you're doing something simple, sure, maybe. But beyond trivial things like DDL syntax and query syntax, there's qu
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
Well, to be fair, MySQL has a storied history of implementing 95% of a feature, calling it good enough, and shipping it. And while, as a Postgres user, my tone here may be a little snide, I also say this with grudging respect: I think there
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
I think what alttab was saying is that you should still post updates without assuming you're just talking to a bunch of clojure aficionados. E.g., I'm somewhat interested in LT but for the other languages. I'm curious enough to check out th
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
Python does (5) and it's pretty refreshing. I'm sure other languages with more elaborate type systems do as well, but it's nice to see in an ostensibly "scripty" language. I think another interesting thing to note is that many languages tha
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
Indeed. User-defined aggregates[1] are another great tool, and complement user-defined types very nicely. [1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/xaggr.html
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
ActionScript running directly in the browser could be interesting. It has some cruft (much of it shared with JS due to the ECMAScript heritage), and the ECMAScript lineage leads to some weird features (e.g., typically its class-based inheri
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
How does (ternary (false) (integer 15) (integer 15)) help JIT?
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by deafbybeheading 14y ago
>I think we are starting to get to that point with relational and nosql. Tools are starting to emerge on the relational DB side to allow more nosql-like structures within traditional DBMS systems. I think in the coming year or two we'll