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by genbattle 14y ago
Optimized C/C++ will usually beat out Go code, while Go will usually far outstrip the cpython interpreter[1]. Go itself doesn't really have any optimization for vector processing using SIMD that would make it a "fast" language for doing thi
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by genbattle 14y ago
Yes, you are right. I was referring to pure Go packages.
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by genbattle 14y ago
There's also the Go project dashboard: http://godashboard.appspot.com/project
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by genbattle 14y ago
Have you looked into using the built-in testing[1] library for unit tests; it seems very full-featured to me. In Go the flag[2] package contains the command-line argument parsing functionality. Is it that you didn't know about these librari
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by genbattle 14y ago
With other languages such as C/C++ if you link a library into your program statically, that library may dynamically load other dependencies. In Go, all dependencies have to be statically compiled into that package. Rob Pike made a good poin
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by genbattle 14y ago
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; New Zealand is in the South Pacific. We haven't allowed any naval vessel carrying nuclear material (be it for weapons or power supply) to enter our waters since 1984. It's always been quite a
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SICP - Initial Thoughts(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
2 points by genbattle 15y ago|0 comments
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A Journey into Functional Programming/Lisp(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
2 points by genbattle 15y ago|0 comments
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by genbattle 15y ago
Agreed. As the above type of eager young developer, I can say it has been rather disappointing the lack of mentoring and direction at my first job. Junior programmers are just assigned to a task and expected to complete it. Programmers that
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by genbattle 15y ago
Go has utility called CGo that allows you to create interfaces to C libraries in Go. I've heard you can use some magic to get Go to talk to C++ by exporting functions back to C somehow (disclaimer: I'm not a C/C++ person).
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by genbattle 15y ago
Goroutines are multiplexed onto a set of threads defined by the Go program. They're not each a full thread; it's more like Stackless Python's version of threads. http://www.stackless.com/
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by genbattle 15y ago
This is a really interesting perspective, and a very convincing argument. The decline of past media industries does show a trend that looks similar to the changes occurring in the current games media industry. These changes are never destru
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Free market ticket sales, the only way to kill scalpers?(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
2 points by genbattle 15y ago|0 comments
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by genbattle 15y ago
Exactly. It would be great to be able to use an Optimus Prime or something as a mobile development machine. My dream for android development is definitely to be able to build and deploy on a single device. Of course there's a way to go for
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by genbattle 15y ago
We can only see their kickstarter funding. They also have the higher-tier funding brackets they've been advertising on their site. My guess is they've probably had another $50,000-$200,000 put in at that upper bracket (one or two people are
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by genbattle 15y ago
This is a repost of an earlier submission at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573447 (It was probably posted previously before that)
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by genbattle 15y ago
I've heard this theory a couple times, and I have to say it's kind of unsettling to think that my personality and termperment may be just as much a product of which infectious organisms my body contains as the behaviors I have picked up fro
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by genbattle 15y ago
There are a number of peripherals which are intended to be controlled by the GPU. These are omitted from this datasheet. Accessing these peripherals from the ARM is not recommended. I can understand them not wanting you to access the GPU
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by genbattle 15y ago
Wow, i didn't know any language had something like that. Can't say I'm surprised that it's a feature of Scheme/Lisp. If OP said "Numerical Tower" in the first place I'd probably have looked it up and understood what he was talking about. Th
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think this is a case of not being able to have your cake and eat it too; you can make something easier to use, but it usually comes as a compromise to more expert users because you have to simplify the interface, remove functionality, red
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by genbattle 15y ago
I also had the same weird feeling (see my post elsewhere in the thread). I think Go's just still too immature for most people to invest deeply in. Production code can have a lifespan measured in years or even decades, so you want to use a l
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by genbattle 15y ago
Yea he mentions language features like interface-based polymophism, garbage collection, namespaces, first class functions, closures, etc. But then he goes on to talk about I/O methods, string manipulation, CSV output, etc. By which I think
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by genbattle 15y ago
The timing of this withdrawal seems to fully indicate that the politicians involved have just tried to flush out their opposition and force them to play their hand. Now Reddit, Wikipedia et al. will go dark, but they will not generate the
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by genbattle 15y ago
But what about the extra 128MB of ram, and the extra USB port? Also, You'd be hard pressed to get a USB Wifi Stick for less than the cost of the whole Raspberry Pi board in my country. Plus as you add more devices Wifi can get very saturate
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by genbattle 15y ago
Looking at the Beaglebone, it seems to have a very different target market to the Raspberry Pi; judging from the single USB port, the lack of display adapter and the large number of GPIO pins, one would say the Beaglebone is primarily aimed
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by genbattle 15y ago
For me, while I do take a lot of pride in shipping a great product, the achievements along the way are more memorable. I don’t remember any of our older product releases, but I remember the important insights all the way back to using
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by genbattle 15y ago
I completely agree on the overpriced gadgets front. For example, here in New Zealand an IPad will set you back about NZD$800-$1300 depending on your model (16GB Wifi->64GB Wifi+3G). Our currency is currently trading at around 87 US cent
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think the problem alot of people have is that Cannonical isn't listening to user input on Unity. They have their design brief that they've come up with, and their target (OS X). Meanwhile, traditional Ubuntu users are being displaced by t
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by genbattle 15y ago
This makes no sense especially given that even a human observer could not tell instantly just by looking at a piece of content whether the content is properly licensed. As others have said, there no reasonable way to 100% correctly detect a
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by genbattle 15y ago
The site is mainly promoting Microsoft's new magic-mouse-ish touch mouse range. It doesn't even work properly with touch; a pinch to zoom operation in chrome simply zooms the page content, it doesn't scroll you through the content like the

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