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elithrar
13y ago
> "not available from the competition..." GitHub has this feature, FWIW.
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13y ago
> Why are people doing so much peer level file sharing anyway? Performance? Security? In a company it would be a lot better to have centralized servers with high availability, probably with some kind of web-based CMS to store files, some
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13y ago
> When the author made the claim that Java was as fast as Go, I was a bit surprised. I wasn't aware Go had caught up to Java. As a Go "fan": it hasn't. It's close in some things, faster in a few, but the JVM has
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13y ago
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026358.do If you have any input over the sample chapter, it'd be nice if it could represent a portion of a "real" chapter of the book. Right now it just provid
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13y ago
> Didn't Apple have a similar problem with the ipod? People complained that it was not random because it would sometimes pick the same track twice or would pick tracks from the same artist more often than people expected. I always t
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13y ago
To be fair to Homebrew, the reliance on GitHub is probably what makes it so accessible: easy for others to add formulae, and no hosting (and lessened security considerations) for them to worry about.
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13y ago
Effective Go ( http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html ) and Go by Example ( https://gobyexample.com/ ) are also great. The former is especially so if you want to learn Go idioms and understand why things are done. It's a good complement to
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13y ago
> At the higher end. Well. It seems that a US entity is the way to go. If you structure the vehicle according to some strict rules, you don't incur any US tax. The fixed costs are much, much higher, but the breakpoint is probably lower
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13y ago
> Yup. Thats well worth pointing out. Pin is awesome for Australian facing businesses, but if you want to trade in USD, better off elsewhere. "Better off elsewhere" - where? Braintree seems like the only similar option, and as discussed
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13y ago
> Braintree require you get an NAB merchant account and, if you want to support USD then you have to also get the NAB foreign-currency accounts. Which, to me, are not-insubstantial barriers. Pin might not be as competitive on price (bar
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13y ago
> nitpick: Opera is going with Blink. Admittedly, Blink is very similar to WebKit at the moment. Actually, Opera is leveraging Chromium —not just Blink. This includes the rendering engine (Blink), V8, networking, etc, etc.
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13y ago
> I didn't ask for a language which "requires" an IDE. I simply want to find a decent IDE for use when coding Go. Depends what you mean by "IDE". There's LiteIDE[1], which fits the more "traditional" idea of an IDE. I use Sublime Text 2
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13y ago
I'm still a little confused as to why Haunts keeps getting used as an example of Go "failing". As discussed in other Go-related comment threads, the project would have likely failed with any language, not just because Go doesn't have a vers
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13y ago
> I'd love an OAuth provider that HAS NO SOCIAL NETWORK! GitHub, BitBucket? Both are actually good options if you have a service with developer demographic (even if its just in part). I'm using Google & GitHub right now, and will li
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13y ago
> I really don't understand your focus on making a kind of witch hunt anytime someone try to learn and implement crypto. There's a stark contrast between someone wanting to learn crypto (and being humble about the process) and someone w
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13y ago
> Even a solution as fundamental as search on the internet is not really helping me lead a better life--though it does make possible the vast stores of knowledge and likely the entire tech sector (including my livelihood). I disagree. Y
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13y ago
> This is the most exciting and interesting thing in the release: Absolutely. My expectation is that this alone should dramatically increase app response times for any reasonably DB-dependant application.
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13y ago
Spending 5 years of your life at a place you are unlikely to enjoy for $1m (before taxes) doesn't seem like that great a deal to me.
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13y ago
I recently pushed a group into using GitHub for configuration files and documentation for a project that delivered an OpenStack compute cluster. The main driver was not my own experience/preference for GitHub, but that they have Windows 
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13y ago
> It's such a surreal concept to me that having to be picked up by emergency services will cost you money. I feel so incredibly lucky to live in a country where healthcare is free. We have a (very good) public healthcare system here in
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> Interesting point. You might be right as someone else did hint that this was part of a talk. He's used Reveal.js[1], a presentation/slideshow tool in JS. Can use node.js if you want to have speaker notes/etc too. [1]: http://lab.haki
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13y ago
> How about 1) Write book. 2) Spend a day or two getting it on Amazon, Apple, B&N online. 3) Keep 100%. Might be harder for authors who need marketing but I have no idea why established authors aren't self-publishing en masse. The i
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13y ago
> It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea: To be more precise, they don't like this: "Stop Yahoo! from buying Tumblr!! If this happens, the entire interface will be changed , and millions of users will delete their accoun
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13y ago
I'm surprised that it doesn't? gorilla/sessions[1] does the same; and you can eventually remove your old keys provided you keep your expiry times sane. [1]: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions#NewCookieStore
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13y ago
> Well, except that there is an open-source alternative implementation of App Engine that you can run anywhere you want. To be fair, AppScale is a separate entity and therefore there's no guarantee that they will keep up with GAE API's,
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13y ago
> He implemented it in Go, but he could have implemented it in any other language I assume he used Go's concurrency features, although he could have articulated on that. > Where did he find the programmers I don't think you explicit
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13y ago
> All you've pointed out is exactly what I've said; it's fine for small things. Except that's not what I said. Go can be used for big things on the web. Google uses it for dl.google.com; SoundCloud uses it; amongst many others. What I a
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13y ago
> As the article points out, there's no real web framework for go [...] Not true at all. As I covered in the "Go 1.1 released" thread[1], there is no "de-facto" web framework, but there are a handful of good ones: web.go, beego & Re
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13y ago
> When you said Revel is "heavy" [...] It provides nearly everything, likely including things you don't even need. It's likely that a lot of the parts included won't be needed by a "typical" web application, and if you want to do things
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13y ago
> Here we see no parenthesizes used in if statements, yet we retain {. In skimming it's easy to miss the if in the first place. Yet everywhere else they're happy to use parenthesizes. I feel that braces on blocks are more important to r
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