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by fnl 16y ago
Well, I greatly suspect they will add that kind of stuff later, reading blogs about what the long-term goals of the language are. I think Go might be a serious newcomer in that aspect, considering they want it to level with C in performance
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by fnl 16y ago
Yeah, that would be number five and I was considering adding it, actually; However, I am not really sure I like it, because the speed of Erlang isn't that great and I for that point always favor anything that can keep up with C (and, the Go
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by fnl 16y ago
Ok, I should have said that I am only interested in the "multiprocessing" aspect; That sounds pretty promising what you write about MP in Clojure, although. Concerning Hadoop, I have my doubts about it - I never switched and now I even read
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by fnl 16y ago
Sounds reasonable to me. Nobody else voting this up?
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Ask HN: Multiprocessing & concurrency: C, Python, Clojure (& Go :))?
22 points by fnl 16y ago|40 comments
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by fnl 16y ago
Average inuit lifespan is about 45 years - however, that means they had a higher life expectancy than we did before we surpassed them. So the extremely cold environment does seem to help (although you just won't get me there :) http://whol
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by fnl 16y ago
A bit wired but its really a fun read that many years later - although the truth is, his reasons for the swap in the end were probably the same as mine (although even later, because my team then wasn't using Python). And I still think Pytho
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by fnl 16y ago
Ok, that answers my joke below :) Darn, I'd had not even negotiated the first time - nice hack, with 5 months some "real" payment :)
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by fnl 16y ago
So I hope you didn't sign, no matter the consequences! :P
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by fnl 16y ago
Thanks for the link to supervisorctl - didn't know that one - and it looks pretty neat! :P
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by fnl 16y ago
sounds at home - although I never was thinking of getting an Air. But you are quite right - for a terminal window who needs more than 11" screen... Is it big enough for browsing? seriously considering that now :)
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by fnl 16y ago
Beautiful summary of a nice setup indeed. Although, I would run in a virtual environment, don't you think that's a good idea? By the way, Eventlet workers sounds nice - how does that compare to using Twisted for aIO?
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by fnl 16y ago
This look pretty neat (although you have to fast-forward the "animations"...), but two things are not clear to me: 1) I see some fine-grained data decompositions, but what about coarse tasks when the overhead is high? 2) I've never looked i
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by fnl 16y ago
That is partly assumable - especially since more people are smokers than ever before. However, our average lifespans have also dramatically increased in the mid 20th century mostly due to increased hygiene and antibiotics: 18th & 19th c
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by fnl 16y ago
now I am laughing tears... :D I'd love to give that one 10 votes...
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by fnl 16y ago
Well, that is a good answer, too. I did not read it that way but then seeing it that way (based on pollution) actually is quite agreeable - although not proven. (We simply do not conclusively know the impact of cancer rate increase because
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by fnl 16y ago
Yes, right. I even think there is quite plausible space to argue that cancer IS increasing because of environmental pollution. However, that is still quite hard to prove. Concerning your last quote, I think it is not only related to program
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by fnl 16y ago
Well, I think this post (not just the headline on HN, the real one, naturally) is misleading because on an uniformed read it could make you assume that cancer is something that has occurred because of the modern lifestyle - and for that the
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by fnl 16y ago
:) Although Norvig's assumption that Fisher probably died of colorectal cancer because of smoking is not necessarily true - after all, prostate cancer and then colorectal cancer are the most prevalant cancer in males (and not lung c., as yo
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by fnl 16y ago
Thank you, Zev, that makes me far less preoccupied (honestly)! My voting strategy is simply on what I think is important (from my individual standpoint, naturally), to know - hopefully, for others, too. However, you take of "testing the qua
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by fnl 16y ago
Well, I think the content is misleading, too. Sorry if that was not clear.
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by fnl 16y ago
The world is the place we live in populated by the people we live with. If you want to say that cancer would have occurred equally had people lived longer in the ancient times although, then you are right. However, that would be not a novel
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by fnl 16y ago
Well, yes, but have you looked at the incident rates? And, mainly, cigarettes are far more dangerous than anything else not because of tobacco, but because of chemical additives such as phenolic acids the tobacco industry use as "perfumes"
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by fnl 16y ago
I do not agree: Cancer is a common "disease" (and I disagree that cancer is a disease, as it is quite different from any other concept we call a "disease") of the modern world because of lifespan. The longer you live, the more likely you ac
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by fnl 16y ago
Smoking causes cancer not because of "tobacco" or smoking or not "THC" (your cite) but because of free radicals that are released during the process of burning these carbohydrates that are - especially - joined to additives, such as benzoat
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by fnl 16y ago
right - i'm always a bit extreme :)
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by fnl 16y ago
Great post, good points (had a good laugh about the loop and arithmetic assumption ;-)) and I mostly agree - although probably 1/3 of [academic/scientific] programmers [at least] really can't program (although that is much less than what go
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by fnl 16y ago
tl;dr :)
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by fnl 16y ago
Sorry guys, whatever you are saying: cancer is a product of the cellular replication system and the faint, yet existing possibilities of errors in that system. To our best knowledge, the are mostly associated to DNA mutations and certain ot
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by fnl 16y ago
My guess after seeing that: big, flashy buttons are a "better" way to lure kids in ... ? (If anybody remembers, kids sites also have the largest amount of trackers, so that would somehow nicely complement that "design strategy".)

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