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by dgreensp 8y ago
Wow. Although I’m not seeing much empathy expressed by the Chrome developers posting in the thread, I hope they realize they made a colossal mistake here, which could have been avoided if they’d been more thoughtful about this change and c
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by dgreensp 8y ago
High-level and low-level are relative, to be sure, but Java is definitely considered higher-level than C -- it was designed to target a virtual machine, for example, while C was designed to target real machines -- so I think it illustrates
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I admit it's not fair to blame C in particular. The comparison is between how we write and execute software and how we could write and execute software, and the language absolutely comes into play, in addition to how the language is c
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by dgreensp 8y ago
The point is specifically about parallel vs sequential programs. Legacy C code is sequential, and the C model makes parallel programming very difficult. I met a guy back in college, a PhD who went to work at Intel, who told me the same thi
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I think the author's point is that despite being perceived as low-level, C doesn't really differ from, say, Java on the last bullet. In other words, a programmer who sits down and uses C and not Java might think, "I am being
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Yes, Google is missing out on some top-end candidates, who probably wouldn’t be happy there anyway. It’s not so simple as having a less annoying interview process and getting better engineers. The interview process is an extension of the
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by dgreensp 8y ago
100% this. To say that the author of the post — whose job includes knowing whether women and minorities feel particularly unwelcome or not, based on actual data and talking to them — must have invented this point is rather outlandish. B
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I don’t see why C++ “references” should have a monopoly on the term “reference," such that a language calling anything else a reference is making an error. C++ references are actually kind of a weird/unusual language feature that
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Spanner is geographically distributed and synchronizes over Google’s fiber. I’m not sure where FoundationDB falls on the spectrum, but there is “distributed” meaning runs on multiple machines, vs multiple availability zones (which could
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Agreed, I found Facebook’s explanation perfectly adequate and respectable. They are basically explaining cookies and embeds/iframes to a non-technical audience — no more, no less. It makes sense to give other examples like Google ads
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by dgreensp 9y ago
The author calls her face-blindness “mild” and “not as severe”; I wonder what severe face-blindness entails?? How do you recognize less than the author? I have a small bit of difficulty with faces that my ex-wife made me aware of. Since t
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by dgreensp 9y ago
From reading Reddit threads about the redesign: pretty much everyone hates it, especially Reddit’s most passionate users, who have been very articulate, consistent, and aligned about exactly what they don’t like, and Reddit just keeps brush
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I found this to be a great collection of insights! My criticisms: Organizing your files and digital “stuff” has very little to do with the “rich structure of human knowledge,” to me, any more than organizing your kitchen or garage is an exe
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I can strain my imagination and optimistically say that with a suitable UI, the tag-based file browser would be no worse than the hierarchical one — using tags to categorize your files in a not-too-coarse, not-too-fine way, and maybe even h
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Interesting to hear! Thanks for the EtherPad love. (I'm finally working on my next app!) There's something a bit AppJet-like about Fly. I also really think this model could be the future; do you even need an "application
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Sounds great. When I think about using this, the main question that comes to mind is about the scale and scope of your infrastructure, compared to Cloudflare, for example, which recently came out with a way to run JavaScript at the edge, an
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Remember how the movies Armageddon and Deep Impact both came out in the same year? (Apparently it was 1998.) It was so weird to have a choice of two bad asteroid movies, which wasn’t exactly a common trope at the time. I got a similar fee
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Something that pretty much everyone in the world wants to see happen, but still faces a few technical hurdles, is much more likely to ever happen than something that is already possible but not enough people want, it seems to me. Achieving
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Wait, what if we’ve just been anthropomorphizing ourselves this whole time?? That’s right, treating humans as if they have human traits like beliefs and intentions.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
“The author is projecting his vapidity on the whole human race.” Yes. Thank you. Does the author think nobody knows how a fridge works, and actually there is nothing to know? I recognized immediately in the metaphor of “selves as fictional
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I disagree with this argument. I think some portion of our brain is devoted to “modeling,” and the things being modeled include other parts of our brain; other parts of our body; phenomena that include certain parts of the brain and non-br
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It was baffling to me why they changed the story in all these ways that didn’t even make for a better story. The scene where Harry just happens to be standing there when Ray is trying to get a loan, for example, felt sort of odd. Screwing
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Oh wow, I was not expecting that!
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Wow, enough mockery and name-calling? I am actually with Oracle on this whole thing. Calling Android “fair use” is the insane argument, as legal experts have said. Fair use is a narrow exemption, not meant to apply to huge corporations an
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by dgreensp 9y ago
TypeScript is fast becoming the go-to language for JavaScript with types.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
r/SexWorkers seems to have survived, thanks to its long-standing policies against advertising/transactions, so sex workers can still talk about sex work, in theory and practice, for now.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Just because “exuberance and fraud” are bound to happen doesn’t mean they are a good thing. I also don’t buy the skippery slope between pitching your vision and lying about the facts. Theranos clearly crossed the line, demonstrating that
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I am definitely on the side of “do the things you ultimately enjoy.” If you don’t enjoy something, ask yourself if you really have to do it, and if you do, ask yourself how you can enjoy it more. And I say this as a dad who has changed hun
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Exactly! I think the OP read a comment that was really just encouragement in the form of, “You may not understand any of this now, but any time and energy you put into learning more will be rewarded with greater understanding; good luck!”
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Why not?

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