francasso

13 ms·

91.
by francasso 6y ago
I believe he is in good faith. My concern is that his opinions and what corporate policy is going to push for in a monopoly situation are two different things. You only have so much power as a technical person. Policies that are good for th
92.
by francasso 6y ago
The issue is that all the analysis the rust compiler did is not present/inferable from the wasm artifact. Since the compiler that has to translate wasm to machine code cannot make more assumptions than those that are in the wasm specif
93.
by francasso 6y ago
I don't think your idea would work in an ortho projection (like the one in the drawing). If the two horizontal bars were separated vertically you would have to see a space between them instead of the them sharing an edge. You idea shou
94.
by francasso 6y ago
Not sure I understand. If you fire a gun toward the ground from the leaning tower of Pisa, and you drop a bullet at the same time, the bullet that was fired from the gun will reach the ground before the other one. The thing is that the expl
95.
by francasso 6y ago
Mathematics is as much logic as poetry is grammar. Sadly most people don't know that because they never get exposed to the creative/discovery side of math. Logic is just a tool to check correctness and enable communication.
96.
by francasso 6y ago
I find people that self describe as Engineering leaders disturbing
97.
by francasso 6y ago
Am I the only architect that hates microservices with gusto? I've only seen bad implementations out there (tens of products), and have yet to encounter one that looks reasonable. If your average developer has trouble implementing somet
98.
by francasso 6y ago
I think I would have really enjoyed Mathematics and its History by Stillwell. It does a good job connecting analysis, algebraic geometry and number theory following the historical evolution of modern topics.
99.
by francasso 6y ago
I don't get this. Usually I either don't care about how stuff is allocated, or when I care I want to be specific about what allocator should be used where. In the second situation just setting a global allocator wouldn't cut
100.
by francasso 6y ago
This is another PL I won't try (not that the authors should care). I'm still waiting for a good "system programming language" that - has compile time execution that can call a compiler API to allow compile time code gene
101.
by francasso 7y ago
If the post is accurate in the Technical Limitations section I wouldn't touch Elm with a 10 foot pole.
102.
by francasso 7y ago
If you have 13 years experience writing multithreaded code on the jvm and your answer to a statement about js vms struggling crunching data is: WebWorkers, my friend, you just don’t have a clue.
103.
by francasso 7y ago
Your comments comparing worker threads to what can be achieved on the jvm (or natively) with multithreading is just a sad display of ignorance. Even more sad is the tone you used.
104.
by francasso 7y ago
So, if company sells a product based on scraping google search results, google trying to block scraping would constitute "malicious interference with a contract"?
105.
by francasso 7y ago
I think you are confusing information gathering with understanding. To give you a practical example: consider the book “How to draw portraits in charcoal” by Nathan Fawkes (great book btw). You can find all the main points of the book onlin
106.
by francasso 7y ago
The day ignorant people will stop discovering new stupid ways to solve trivial problems and then market them to their undiscerning fellows will be a great day for humanity. Unfortunately I will not live to see that day. Yes this is a sour c
107.
by francasso 8y ago
I'll say only one thing: 1 based indexing. Jokes asides, congratulations to Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah, well deserved!
108.
by francasso 8y ago
The threading description is highly misleading, the current proposal being implemented is based on WebWorkers, they are not just native OS threads with a small overhead
109.
by francasso 8y ago
The author should have a chat with Jordan Peterson
110.
by francasso 8y ago
All those despicable events are to be opposed and condemned. I'm favorable to chem. castration at the first definitive sentence of sexual assault. But here we are talking about something different. In order to justify this law, you wo
111.
by francasso 8y ago
TLDR?
112.
by francasso 8y ago
I'm Italian and no, it can't (would love for the people of Naples to prove me wrong though)
113.
by francasso 9y ago
My own take on it: Lang's books about the basics I find lovely - Basic stuff: Basic Mathematics - Lang - One variable Calculus: A First Course in Calculus - Lang - Multi variable Calculus: Calculus of Several Variables - Lang - Linea
114.
by francasso 9y ago
What do you want me to say, if "you" knowingly break an API, to me "you" are. Matter of opinions.
115.
by francasso 9y ago
When you break an API you are an "asshole" fullstop.
116.
by francasso 9y ago
If they plan on making breaking APIs changes whenever they feel like their data suggest it's ok, they should clearly say so. But like openly, on the front of the chrome web page: "We care about you, the user, and will break the pl
117.
by francasso 9y ago
There is a rule against breaking APIs, there is no rule against making a website that is better than another one. So by your logic it's ok for you to kill and rob a rich person and redistribute all the money because, hey, at the end of
118.
by francasso 9y ago
You can make it opt-in without breaking other people stuff. If a website doesn't opt in their users will migrate to another one that offers the same content with a better user experience. It just won't happen tomorrow (<- commo
119.
by francasso 9y ago
Jesus Christ, to think there are people in this thread defending what the assholes in the Chrome team did is unbelievable. You make breaking changes opt-in, that is API design 101. Linus should take over Chrome development.
120.
by francasso 10y ago
So what? They couldn't be bothered to create another sequel. They went on and did something different. That is admirable, not something to frown upon... Many economists don't have a clue...

More ›