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by heretohelp 14y ago
> Besides, it seems you're equating game quality with poly count. As someone who, in terms of raw gaming time, spends more time beating Ninja Gaiden on the NES than playing the favorite FPS of your average 11 year old, that seems dubiou
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>let me dock my 2013 mobile phone with 4 GB RAM and 4 Kepler-PhysX cores with my HDTV and let me play Crysis on it. Hahahaha, no. (I love the non-gamers on HN. So optimistic. Go look at the current state of emulation and hardware power,
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I'm actually pretty familiar with the current state of deterministic concurrency as a field of research and it has little to do with lock-free algorithms at all. For that matter, what little of deterministic concurrency exists (FP interleav
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by heretohelp 14y ago
A lot of Go programmers, and I think I'd like to include myself here, are going to want to be able to plug in their own persistence backend. For my own part, a lot of my work has some connection to a scaling problem of some kind. A mandator
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by heretohelp 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbounded_nondeterminism And I quote, "In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbou
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Parallelism isn't concurrency and concurrency isn't parallelism. Parallelism is simultaneity. Parallelism can be deterministic. Concurrency is by definition, non-determinism. Concurrency does not, by any means, necessitate or mean simultane
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I was making a crack about JS-only people.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
http://okws.org/ is a better example. Actually, it's more like, "Write your web apps in Python/Clojure/Go/Java/Scala/Haskell/Erlang/C++/C/Common Lisp/Racket which all have better concurrency and async mechanisms than Node.js" I was mentio
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by heretohelp 14y ago
It's pretty easy to find alternatives to Node.js that are a lot more sound, a lot easier to work with, and a lot more performant if you need asynchronicity. You gain nothing save for the ability to use JS itself, for which the supposed be
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Red meat isn't bad for you. Red meat in a high glycemic index and/or calorifically high diet is bad for you. There are probably leaner sources of protein you could go for, but the fats in quality red meat are the closest thing to a nutritio
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Only rarely: http://blog.bitemyapp.com/ http://bitemyapp.tumblr.com/ I don't generally find myself with anything profoundly useful (to others) to say outside of any specific context. If you have a topic/post suggestion, I'd love to hear
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Fair, but don't defend the propagation of things like that.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Okay, I'll be nice. You're using the community guidelines as a shield to hide behind while you de-emphasize the fact that you were completely wrong and feigning to compensate for your total lack of experience in the relevant subject. Stop u
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by heretohelp 14y ago
There is real and legitimate compiler and JIT research, like PyPy, that could lead to reasonably efficient implementations for dynamic languages that can be expressed in RPython. It is not, however, under any circumstances going to lead to
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I don't tell my lawyer, my accountant, or my doctor how to do their job. I'll get a second opinion where prudent, but other than that, I don't assume I know more than somebody who's spent a good chunk of their life specializing into that fi
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>The performance gap is closing, thanks in particular to projects like cython that let you write python code that gets converted over and compiled as c++ that's often more performant than the c++ code that devs might write themselves. W
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Are there any Lisps you would recommend (other than Clojure)? (Or languages?)
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>What specifically do you feel is missing? A very large deployment of it that has shaken out the bugs.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
To answer his question, yes virginia, we (people that use MySQL) use replication a lot. Especially at mid-grade levels of scaling where custom sharding and replication middleware hasn't necessitated itself yet but vertical scaling is out of
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I think a salient elaboration might be specifying what is meant by "not worked out". Do you mean not getting acquired, or never making any money or getting any traction? If the former, he (I would surmise) would've been a lifestyler.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Getting efficient (not proficient, just efficient) at programming has a lot to do with experience and smoothing out all those errors from past scars. If it makes you feel any better, that slow grindy Google-heavy progress is normal for any
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by heretohelp 14y ago
This is ridiculously unusable.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Except that's not true at all, the Grooveshark HTML5, iOS, and Android apps all support queuing an album at a time.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
The mobile app is a companion that assumes you're like me and have a large collection of playlists curated already from the desktop web app. I do, so it works great for me. Also, "playing" songs adds them to your run queue. you can also "pl
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by heretohelp 14y ago
No. Also, you mean shim I think. A shiv is something you fashion out of a toothbrush and shove into the guts of somebody that mouthed off to you in the cafeteria in cell block A last week.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
We use HTML5 prolifically. It's a calculated decision, precious few of the people who visit our site/use our apps use anything that doesn't support core HTML5.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Some people just really love what they do, love being busy, and want to be able to share their gift with more people. The certainty of constant sales/deal-flow has a value all its own too. But don't let that stop you parroting the same advi
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by heretohelp 14y ago
You should know basic cap theorem before reading this. If you don't, go read a 1 paragraph summary. Fyi, this has nothing to do with you. I'm using you to soapbox about some data/scaling misconceptions. This subject happens to be one of my
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Regarding the removal tool: My macbook air doesn't go anywhere without being inside of its case. Its case has a slip pocket where I can put a removal tool / PAPERCLIP like this. I will probably get one to expand my SSD storage.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I often use the somewhat memey "first world problems" idiom to put things in perspective for my team.

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