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by haimez 12y ago
Trite. A good a CS education will help you understand the relationships between abstractions like these and the physical circuitry that makes it possible. You don't get to just write the significance of this design pattern off because
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by haimez 13y ago
Let me split the difference between you and the other replies to you: it's classic tech-blog material. The journalist mistakes "id's" with "ideas" several times, and the engineer being interviewed is happy to s
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by haimez 13y ago
As long as you're going to use amorphous group affiliations to create an ad-hominem attack, let me do the same: "AnotherDesigner"
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by haimez 13y ago
You're right, I'll tell China to get right on that.
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by haimez 13y ago
You're right! It's those other jerks getting all their high school statistics wrong. No true scientist (Scotsman) could ever make THAT mistake.
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by haimez 13y ago
Things have to be known before they can be hated.
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by haimez 13y ago
Sometimes you just have to let people try to convince themselves that wildly impractical (but really neat) toys could have serious applications. <s>For example, Node.js.</s>
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by haimez 13y ago
I don't know the Rust type system well enough (nor the internal representation of strings), but if strings allow you to reference sub-strings without re-allocating, then you only have one contiguous section in memory for headers that y
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by haimez 13y ago
That's why you should use a credit card and not a debit card for online purchases. If you dispute the charge, it's their money instead of yours that they're recovering.
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by haimez 13y ago
This is going to be a problem for your users. RFC's are worth following when they represent a superset of the standard implementations, but when the RFC is more restrictive than what people actually use you're doing yourself a dis
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by haimez 13y ago
ACID compliance is not ever a strict requirement, it's an abstraction guarantee. If you have a fully ACID compliant database with a sufficiently expressive query interface, then the complexity of the datastore is a perfect abstraction.
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by haimez 13y ago
Excellent summary. A lot of the API's are definitely built scala-first, then adapted for Java. Usually this isn't too bad, but it can cause some headaches around things like the logger interfaces, etc. We run a fairly complex java
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by haimez 13y ago
It's also difficult to find a compiler, programming tutorials, or a community for. I think there are a LOT of reasons programming languages are chosen by developers and that most of those reasons aren't all that rational or well i
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by haimez 13y ago
You forget, emotional effectiveness IS effectiveness. Not the only kind, but in this world it's probably the more important kind. Certainly the easiest to achieve.
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by haimez 13y ago
I'm only a little ashamed to admit, I bought a KitKat today.
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by haimez 13y ago
Not totally, the problem being described as "Callback Hell" is in my experience: non-locality of code. Things that relate to one another should be spatially together for a programmer to write, read, understand- and NOT split into
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by haimez 13y ago
Come on, man. You can't even justify this as remotely technology adjacent. If we all treat HN like reddit, it will become reddit. The story is interesting, but it's posted to the wrong link-sharing site.
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by haimez 13y ago
I simply can't imagine a use-case where you would want this and MongoDB wouldn't be a better fit for the task. Redis is good at serving as a cache, it's a good centralized data structure service for decentralized computing sy
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by haimez 13y ago
It's sad that this is our best chance for changing US policy at this point, but I'll take it. I would have hoped that the ideals of freedom were something that the American people embraced for their own sake, but you play the hand
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by haimez 14y ago
Couldn't read the content of the post because I found the site to be too obnoxious to tolerate. Isn't there a better source for whatever information it was you were trying to share?
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by haimez 14y ago
I don't think it's very relevant, but it was going to show up and I was hoping to dismiss the notion preemptively. Look at this quagmire you've started!
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by haimez 14y ago
Obligatory comment about response bias. Glad we've gotten that out of the way.
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by haimez 14y ago
and here we all thought meteor was web-scale.
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by haimez 14y ago
Or the logger interface. It's awful. Great that you use the sl4j interface, but I can't cast it to that type because it's a wrapper for the "real" logger written in Scala. It's annoying, and agreed- using Java in the Play framework feels mo
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by haimez 14y ago
Without a degree in Biochemistry, this appears to be a proof of concept. A demonstration that it's possible and the challenge is adapting it to humans, instead if starting from scratch. Seems to be pretty huge news for people with diabetes.
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by haimez 14y ago
Back to your cube, rube! This is the whiz-bang kind of kick-ass office great developers LOVE to work in. I'll bet only a real square would want to be able to hear their own thoughts.
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by haimez 14y ago
Let's add some more obscurity to this security. I suggest APL.
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by haimez 14y ago
Of course he's sure. He's a hacker. A maker, man. If we were that close to simulating a human brain there would be implementations up on github already, waiting for a $1.6B supercomputer to become available to run it.
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by haimez 14y ago
I could be wrong, but I think you're going to have a hard time convincing rails newcomers to fork over the cash in a recurring model and as the post indicates, the experienced developers are familiar with the territory. I'm sure there's mon
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by haimez 14y ago
Guess we'll see if the data is as interesting as American football...

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