dualogy

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by dualogy 10y ago
Sardinia isn't a tropical locale by a long shot
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by dualogy 10y ago
> It just doesn't go in my head that we are building text editors inside a web browser! I felt the same until I actually tried it out. That changed my mind: now I'll take any platform that those developers & contributor
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by dualogy 10y ago
> A friend of mine Tweeted this the other night: "I'm sleepless so I just created a voice-based health tracker using Google Assistant in about 20 minutes that took me wks to write 3 yrs ago." Sounds like someone scripted a
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by dualogy 10y ago
> $1500/1920 work hours a year = $0.78/hr. Seems reasonable to me. If that sounds good to you, consider $150/1920 instead for a thought experiment! Sounds about fair for someone like me who assuredly could work for years
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by dualogy 10y ago
> mean that you don't have to provision, administer, scale, or retire servers, nor do you have to pay for persistent compute resources rather than simply execution Given all the work this appears to save one, there's a curiou
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by dualogy 10y ago
> for over a decade now That countries-list must have been a FOSS project without a maintainer..
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Incremental recompilation is coming Good to hear, when that is in place compile times matter a whole lot less
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I'd say you love the language, but apologetically so. You shouldn't it's a great language. I just think for me it absolutely shines for certain use-cases and sucks for many others, where I simply won't use it. The q
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by dualogy 10y ago
> is that it is disappointing what Google is capable of Man, how long will this meme survive? Go only initially originated with some Google developers, it's not in any way "Google's answer to Apple's and Microsoft&#
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by dualogy 10y ago
> It's ugly What do you find ugly about it?
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by dualogy 10y ago
These import paths aren't really URLs. They're local import paths, where Go's out-of-box tooling additionally allows for far simpler package install/update flows when one chooses to have these local paths replicate rem
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by dualogy 10y ago
stack isn't a mess at all, it's very well-designed, robust and stable. cabal is a mess (or say, a furball) that is properly "handled" by just using stack.
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by dualogy 10y ago
How robust/mature is it as of yet? More importantly, how are compile speeds and how much of a priority are they to the compiler maintainers? I too find it quite promising in terms of "a language aiming for the benefits of Go with
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well a healthy heart is a good basis for 'longevity'. "Wild", not-primarily/fulltime-agricultural and fully nourished tribes are also throughout the ages known to have never encountered diabetes alzheimers dementi
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by dualogy 10y ago
Ahh, all a matter of adaptation..
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by dualogy 10y ago
Sounds all pretty good to me, what's not to like? Emptying the dishwasher and going to trade-shows can contribute to keeping everyone "grounded", wearing many hats is cross-fertilizing all ones skills better and reduces tunne
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by dualogy 10y ago
> There's plenty of detail and pretty much no fluff. More of the same please Microsoft. It's par for the course with MS tech docs IMHO, well at least the bulk of their dev documentation. I even marvelled at the MSDN docs for
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Without a GC WASM is very hard to use for regular web development tasks Well yeah.. it's an assembly language, the sort you inline in your C (or some other) programs to squeeze critical code paths. Doing your virtualdom or for
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by dualogy 10y ago
What exactly is the "threat" to those players here, wasm? It baffles me when people are asking for "a mechanism (aka hidden behind-the-scenes magic) for objects and GC" in an assembly language =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
At least though it's not without merit that this glaring gap between what people claim to value "most" and where funding flows the most remains as visible as it is. Reality is the best reality-check for most of us. ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
There's probably not too many "poor kids" in Taiwan.. as for the 20-something "English teachers" roaming the likes of Cambodia, Laos etc, unless actual NGO workers they're overwhelmingly teaching the better-of
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Maybe teaching english abroad, end up being that 40 year old white dude trapped in Taiwan, stuck every night in the foreigner bar and droning about what could have been. At 5 years short of 40, doesn't sound half-bad if you cut
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by dualogy 10y ago
Just -* and then pester the authors of Fira Code and Hasklig fonts (or fork) to add a ligation for the symbol when - and * appear next to each other =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> not being massaged out of the blue is survivable I can confirm this is true.
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by dualogy 10y ago
Also mid-30s and like you, I very much enjoyed the hey-days of OkCupid, that is before Tinder landed and everyone began to swipe dozens of faces per minute and express their personality via unicode icons. That very moment online dating lost
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by dualogy 10y ago
> but it's not of much value if an "echo" or "grep" implementation takes up 15 to 30MB on the drive In this day & age? It might be of value if an echo or grep takes ~20MB and a full-blown HTTP REST server
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by dualogy 10y ago
I took a quick look recently at id software's GitHub repos of their old blockbuster games (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake) and gotta say it was the first-ever C codebase I encountered that I found eminently readable.. (whether it's &quo
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by dualogy 10y ago
blog.fefe.de nette Satire und so aber way too political for my "haxor" reading needs, the whole first page is full of current affairs
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by dualogy 10y ago
> For a weekly HN digest, I read this: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ How cheeky =)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Android apps will at some point work on Windows Phone Shines a whole additional angle on the "first-class Linux subsystem inside Win 10" efforts lately..

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