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by devishard 10y ago
Hacker News, where saying it nicely is valued more than saying anything useful.
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by devishard 10y ago
I think that Java can definitely provide significantly more protection than Go, but I do agree that Java's horrible namespacing conventions and lack of type inference makes it cumbersome. So what, you're on par with a 20 year old
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by devishard 10y ago
This is interesting, especially given that many people lie about previous pay in order to get a higher pay. It's an extremely effective strategy.
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by devishard 10y ago
> The are great advantages to individuals and society to paying less than the value of goods and services. If my daughter is ill, and a simple shot of antibiotics will cure her, should I pay $20 for that, or should I pay what saving her
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by devishard 10y ago
I actually have nothing against Elon Musk. I don't expect anyone to do things completely altruistically. But it's ridiculous to claim that this is just purely altruistic.
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by devishard 10y ago
Almost anyone can think of other apparent motivations Musk might have without my help and indeed without much thought. It doesn't require explanation. I also think that people should be strongly discouraged from making claims like &quo
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by devishard 10y ago
> Somebody (usually several somebodies) took the chance to create a support structure to enable said person to create the millions of dollars in value. A tech company contains a lot of structure, and very little of that is actually geare
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by devishard 10y ago
I don't think the poster of your parent comment would disagree with your explanation of the how things are; they're only saying that's not how it should be. If we lived in a just meritocracy, people who created millions of
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by devishard 10y ago
I don't think the poster of your parent comment would disagree with your explanation of the how things are; they're only saying that's not how it should be. If we lived in a just meritocracy, people who created millions of
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by devishard 10y ago
It's telling that the most sophisticated type system you've dealt with is Ruby, though. I think that if you spent some time working in OCaml/Nim/Rust/D/C# you'd learn a lot which would cause you to be a lo
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by devishard 10y ago
1. How many people have 10 million line code bases? 2. How many of those people would have much smaller codebases if they used a more expressive language? 3. Of the people who have 10 million line codebases and would still have 10 million l
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by devishard 10y ago
Or literally any statically-typed language I know of after C. I suppose it's possible there's some language I'm unaware of that has managed to somehow provide less type-checking than Go, but it's certainly not a commonly
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by devishard 10y ago
> Sorry, your posting is unnecessarily abrasive. Go is a much bigger problem in our industry than the tone of my post. > I have never claimed that Go has the most advanced type system. You claimed it had "strict type checking&quo
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by devishard 10y ago
This post is yet another reinforcement of my assertion that the people who like Go only like it because they have no idea what has happened in programming languages for the last few decades. Case in point: > It brings back the virtues of
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by devishard 10y ago
shitty design != conspiracy
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by devishard 10y ago
> here is a man who twice bet his personal fortune on these companies with no other apparent motive besides making the world a better place. That has to be the most naive statement I've seen on Hacker News.
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by devishard 10y ago
Sure, maybe if you're looking for reasons to take offense, "just" is one you could take offense to. But ultimately I think if we all are walking around on eggshells to the point we can't say that word, that's a much
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by devishard 10y ago
> I don't think we do. I think we need to foster a culture of honesty and rigor. Of good science. Which is decidedly different from fostering a culture of "repetition" for its own sake. No one is proposing repetition for i
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by devishard 10y ago
There is literally no way to use the email they took from me that isn't a dark pattern.
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by devishard 10y ago
> If you're going to take the trouble to specify that it's an integer list, might as well use a statically typed language, right? When you use a dynamically typed language, presumably the point is to not have to worry about sta
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by devishard 10y ago
That's very interesting. Do you have any insights into why the descriptor differences are like that?
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by devishard 10y ago
As someone who has thought Go was a poor choice for almost any project for a long time and argued that many times, I used to come up against the argument that Go package management was superior to other languages. Six months ago I said: &
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by devishard 10y ago
Question: it seems to me like you could get a long ways with a hidden service simply by placing the same key on multiple servers with disparate physical locations. Wouldn't this provide a sort of randomized load balancing, since differ
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by devishard 10y ago
> There are two sources of such information: the static context (e.g., in Scheme, which variables are in scope) and the dynamic environment (e.g., again in Scheme, the type of an object, and, in Python, pretty much everything). The stati
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by devishard 10y ago
I'm aware of what's happening. It's definitely a norm in C and it produces desirable results in many cases (I've written similar structures myself many times). All I'm saying is that from a type perspective it'
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by devishard 10y ago
> Well durr! We could be here all night listing things that SSH hardening wouldn't secure against. I never suggested it was a silver bullet to fix all security needs (which seems to be the faux argument you're accusing me off).
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by devishard 10y ago
I didn't explain that well--initially Twitter was on RoR and sharded MySQL, which wasn't scalable. Obviously they have done a lot of scaling work and can handle their load now. If I were implementing Twitter today, I'd probab
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by devishard 10y ago
> I think that's an unfair comparison for two reasons: (1) People were already comfortable with the idea of paying for cabs, cable, games, books/electronics in the old world. Whereas the current norm is _not_ to pay for social
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by devishard 10y ago
> My point was correct to the specific attack you broadly described. But you didn't correct it, you proposed a solution that didn't address the attack I described. > Your example required a web server attack that allowed arb
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by devishard 10y ago
That's a reasonable critique, and I think you're right. There exist products that start off without value people would pay for and slowly develop into something with value people would pay for, and Google is a good example. I gues

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