fmstephe

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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   I am glad that we have in this world at least a few rich people with uncontrollable curiosity. It seems like wealth is wasted on some.
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   I built a location service that allows people to play games with people who are nearby. I built a small geo-location service and a messaging server for the games. The servers are tiny and fairly simple. The games themselves are written in J
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   My god. Go is _so_ much fun to program. Apart from it's technical pedigree this is its most remarkable feature.
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   This is great news. The best part of it for me is that now my more conservative colleagues might dip their toes in the water. Combine that with the Vitess project and Go is not just a great language. It's viable.
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   An interesting point. I suppose if this becomes a really important technique we may see some very interesting language support. Fun times :)
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   "The first are the cogs. These are typically either immutable data structures, or mutable components designed to be accessed only from a single thread. The second is a concurrent abstraction which sits on top of the cogs." This is a very go
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   I agree with your sentiment that it isn't clear how this will fit into software development in general. Fair enough about the quantum comment. Also, my comments sounds snarkier that it was intented, so apologies for that :) (what a polite b
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   I think it is fair to say that this approach only works in some domains. We won't be using it where giving the 'wrong' answer upsets the people with the money. But if you listen to the channel 9 interview put up by 6ren he clearly outlines
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   by fmstephe 15y ago

   My reaction to this is that I am sure he is right that embracing nondeterminism and relaxing synchronization will allow us to scale up to these many core PCs. However, this does not solve the problem of how 'the rest of us' program them eff
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    It seems to me that callbacks are a solution to a problem that green threads (Erlang, Go, Stackless Python) solve far simpler. A system of call backs with events mixing multiple logical processes into one thread of control seems very comple
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    I think this is a great proposal. I would be very happy to see destructuring assignment in JS. In every other language I've used that supports this (Erlang, Clojure) it is a big win.
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    10-12 hours per day. This is the trap of developing software for a living and trying push out your own software in your spare time. I often ask if it's worth it. I used to spend a lot more time outside. But the desire to build my own system
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    I love this article. While reading the comments I had the following thought. That the RP is somewhat intimidating and exposed as a raw piece of electronics. While you or I have plenty of keyboards and mice around, and no doubt schools do to
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    This is just the thing I love to see on Hacker News. Every time you see this I remember why I spend all those hours hacking and learning. Really lights a fire under your ass.
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    I agree with this wholeheartedly. It is alarming the sense of entitlement in this thread. Everything we get from these guys is a gift.
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    I agree with everything you have said about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. My surprise was at the tone of the reaction on this thread. That these people have spent this long on such a worthy project and have produced something that is p
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    This reaction is really surprising to me. The Raspberry Pi charity was set up in order to produce a product that could be used as an education tool. They have managed a spectacular feat, that has been 6 years in the making. This is a very e
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    Thanks for writing this prototype. Send me an email when you push the next version out :)
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    This is the first time I heard of Server-Side events. I am very impressed. Using the old HTTP protocol, rather than websockets' fancy one (albeit with more communication overhead), you can have a nice chat app. On first glance this looks li
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    by fmstephe 15y ago

    I don't know if it's the Aha moment you are after. But in my programming 101 class the lecturer outlined the maximum-contiguous subsequence problem (which sounds very boring). Solved it once and then solved it two more times each time makin
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    by fmstephe 16y ago

    A Distributed Sat-Solver written in Java with networking in Erlang. Fun but no $$$
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    by fmstephe 16y ago

    F# - Clojure - C
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    by fmstephe 16y ago

    I have nothing to add to the discussion. It sounds to me like your approach to the book is solid. If you write the book outlined here I will buy it, for me and for my kids :)
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    by fmstephe 16y ago

    I wrote a distributed sat-solver in Erlang (good old fashioned search problem). It was my intro project to get to know the language. Has been great fun and now Erlang is in charge of computers talking to each other while Java takes care o
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    by fmstephe 16y ago

    It will only teach you a small bit of math (i.e. Trigonometry) but try programming a little 2D rocket ship game with some physics and movement etc. It can be fun and you will get a better feel for the maths involved. don't use libraries.