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91.
by decker 10y ago
I didn't see the referenced article and initially thought this was going to be a post about not using volatile instead of atomic load / store. I suppose this could be a useful implementation, however, it's not clear how usefu
92.
by decker 10y ago
Their method had a 89.5% success rate, which might seem great, but is pretty much worthless in real life. The US has the highest incarceration rate, so we can use the US incarceration rate as an upper bound for the probability of randomly
93.
by decker 10y ago
Ever look at how an ACL gets repaired?
94.
by decker 11y ago
More like being terrible at using inheritance is terrible.
95.
by decker 11y ago
I suppose that might be true, but it feels more like Go missed the known universe while focusing only on the forest.
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by decker 11y ago
Yeah, I found it quite bizarre as well. Also, the panic()/recover() looks more like they decided to unify assert with setjmp/longjmp rather than exceptions since catching only occurs after your function exits which is pretty much
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by decker 11y ago
Human beings aren't great at the whole hive mind thing. We miscommunicate, have opinions, argue, and do various other stupid things. Programmers will never work like ants unless the entire dev team consists of a star-wars like clone
98.
by decker 11y ago
Maybe the community needs to de-conflate positions (the options) and strategy (lottery ticket, insurance, etc).
99.
by decker 11y ago
I think your estimate is too low by 1000x. 1PB is 500 2T drives. There's no way Google would run a data center with only 25-250 hosts.
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by decker 11y ago
That's cool, but then again, this guy likely just failed fizz-buzz for producing a graph showing correlation.