james4k

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by james4k 14y ago
This might be true, but the atmosphere is also very good at reabsorbing water. Especially if humidity levels would be lower than normal.
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by james4k 14y ago
>PHP is horribly inconsistent, breaks all the rules about programming language design, and is infuriating. Some say that rules are made to be broken. In the context of Go, Rob Pike argues exactly that in this short talk on why they made
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by james4k 14y ago
Windows Store is another place they'll be making up that money.
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by james4k 14y ago
I don't find it that ugly, but I can't help but think they were just trying to differentiate themselves from the iPad.
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by james4k 14y ago
It may also have to do with the fact that there is an App Store, which will be a new, probably significant, source of revenue. And, it makes it a little easier for someone who's not sure about the radically new UI.
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by james4k 14y ago
At the risk of sounding a bit ridiculous, good for them. The less Java, the better.
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by james4k 14y ago
So, wait. What if our universe is being simulated with 'different' laws of physics? I guess we would never be able to find that out, even if we could somehow conclude it is in fact simulated.
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by james4k 14y ago
From http://research.swtch.com/gotour Q. What are the limits to scalability with building a system with many goroutines? The primary limit is the memory for the goroutines. Each goroutine starts with a 4kB stack and a little more per-gor
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by james4k 14y ago
net.Dial is a special case at the moment. It will have natural timeout behavior in the future, just like Reads and Writes do. See the comment here: http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dial.go?s=3003:3074#L110 Edit: In practice, this isn't reall
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by james4k 14y ago
Three different types of pointers? Perhaps that is going a bit far? > If you've a sharp eye, you're wondering what that "~" is that I snuck in on the type of the closure for the child task. That's actually a pointer type, of which Rust
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by james4k 14y ago
> Verbose and repetitive error handling If you were to handle the same error cases in Python that you gave examples for in Go, it would probably be even more verbose with the try/catch wrapped around. > Errors passing silently – tic
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by james4k 14y ago
Yeah, it has gotten worse over the years. I suppose in most cases they do probably make up more than 25% of the total page, and easily if you count just above the fold. And yet, for me anyways, they aren't near as obnoxious as the ads on An
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by james4k 14y ago
Not at all. Google's ads are very reasonable, especially in comparison to Answers.com. Google's ads are also clearly ads. Answers.com likes to mix ads with content in the middle of the page.
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by james4k 14y ago
While I think this is a great approach to startups and business in general, I also think that Answers.com as a business is quite sad. Any website that makes their money by using more than a quarter of their screen space for advertising I co
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by james4k 14y ago
Google Fiber is supposedly about 10 times faster than that. Presumably, the bandwidth test server was being maxed out. His comparison based on the 91 Mbps result makes current ISPs look better than they should. > For comparison, where w
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by james4k 14y ago
This is so fascinating. I had to go look for the guy's book, and luckily it still seems to be in stock: http://www.antonkusters.com/the-2nd-edition-of-yakuza-i-heed...
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by james4k 14y ago
I don't know, I'd say JavaScript is pretty close to reaching its peak at this point, if it hasn't already.
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by james4k 14y ago
I love how bubbly it is, I guess in reaction to what looks like ice below it? So, rising water vapor? I'd bet that makes for some interesting rock patterns.
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by james4k 14y ago
Unfortunately, there are still an annoying number of ads, which is the main reason I got rid of my Plus subscription. Can anyone comment on whether or not things have improved for subscribers? Edit: Come to think of it, it was more the fact
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by james4k 14y ago
This all makes a lot of sense for non-main packages. I am curious though what people are doing with their main packages and their non-code dependencies. Say you were writing a web app in Go, or some other executable. Is the convention to pu
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by james4k 14y ago
Haha, man... I actually had this open in a tab for a while waiting for it to load.
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by james4k 14y ago
Maybe it's just the photos, but it has a real "cheap plastic" look to it. :( Edit: They mention carbon fiber materials, but does that mean the body is carbon fiber?
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by james4k 14y ago
Yeah, though there's something to be said about a curated store. All of the games on Steam are of a high quality. Also, Steam Greenlight [1] will make things interesting for app developers too. [1] http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/
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by james4k 14y ago
On the other hand, it's been clear that Windows 8 would have an app store for about a year. http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/wind...
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by james4k 14y ago
I thought I recognized this and after some digging, I found a similar side project someone else posted a few months back: http://routinetap.com/tour Still, I love these types of tools.
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by james4k 14y ago
Maybe not, but the project is still considered 'alpha' after 14+ years, and generally not recommended for use unless you're curious or involved in development, or as they put it: "not recommended for everyday use". Looking at the major rele
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by james4k 14y ago
ReactOS is one of the slowest moving open-source projects I've ever seen. It's amazing to me that it is still going. It's interesting to look at the release dates of the different versions: 0.0.10 came out in 1998, 0.1.0 in 2003, 0.2.0 in 2
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by james4k 14y ago
Do you know if there is an approval process?
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by james4k 14y ago
Officially, they are flexible on the actual rate, but I believe 30% is pretty standard. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newel... Edit: Oh, and PC Gamer has a good bit about the update process. http://www.pcgamer.co
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by james4k 14y ago
It used to be that Valve had to approve and push your update out for you, though they did this typically within the same day you sent it to them. Now, you press the big red button so to speak. This also means you can push out updates outsid

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