jamii

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by jamii 11y ago
I had the same reaction. I started buying http://www.mealsquares.com/ instead. They are very dry if not warmed up but they taste like chocolatey oatmeal instead of rotten milk.
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Erlang will use multiple OS threads if you start it with '-smp enabled'. Otherwise it would be limited to a single core. Each thread runs a scheduler and the many Erlang processes are balanced between the schedulers. There is stil
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by jamii 11y ago
In case anyone thinks that's an academic point, this is exactly the reason who so many dynamic languages can't tell the difference between 'key is not in hashtable' and 'key is in hashtable with value null'. I
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I would worry that trying to shoehorn the code back into an entity-at-a-time OO-style interface still encourages poor access patterns. I much prefer the bitsquid approach which treats component managers as the objects and provides nice bulk
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The database part of http://witheve.com/ is written in Rust. It's not very technically interesting yet (eg no query optimiser) but the basics all work.
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We needed control over memory layout and some path to running in the browser. I considered writing the data-structures in C and the rest in Lua but it would require more manual memory management than Rust and there is no clear path to compi
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I can't see us using CALM for anything in the near future. The focus right now is just on making the basic programming experience smooth. We chose Dedalus because the discrete, synchronous model of time makes it easy to separate things
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by jamii 11y ago
https://github.com/witheve/Eve/blob/dev/design/bibliography.... http://incidentalcomplexity.com/ :)
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> If Facebook had an "export my friend list to Excel" button, then plenty of non-programmers could perform this task using existing tools. The task was to send alerts whenever a friend was nearby. Excel is amazing for non-pro
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It makes sense, I think :) Hickey's ideas about time and state are also pretty relevant - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... One of the things we are still working on is expressing non
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by jamii 11y ago
Since you mention game development - the architectures behind Love ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPIA2g8T6Hw ) and Bitsquid ( http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2010/04/our-tool-architecture.h... ) were
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by jamii 11y ago
That's definitely something we spend a lot of time thinking about. We have to be able to support easy, exploratory programming but also be able to nail stuff down if it ends up being used a lot. We have a bunch of ideas queued up. One
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by jamii 11y ago
We built a Foursquare clone recently and the BOOM guys built an extended version of HDFS and Hadoop ( http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/eurosys10-boom.pdf ). It works out pretty well. The shift is not really about accessi
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It is kind of a pain to build on Windows right now, but it is a supported platform and we will eventually have pre-built binaries.
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by jamii 11y ago
The change of focus is perhaps hard to understand without more context. Basically, there are two really different modes of programming: Most of what we see on HN is about building applications, servers, websites etc. Big, monolithic things
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by jamii 11y ago
There was some discussion in http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2015/02/24/january--february... > While running in the browser is a requirement for Eve, it's always been clear that using javascript direc
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by jamii 11y ago
These are not patented, and are reasonably simple - http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~leis/papers/ART.pdf
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by jamii 11y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, they are not planning to add a JIT but just the features required for implementing your own: WebAssembly should support: Producing a dynamic library and loading it into the current WebAssembly
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by jamii 11y ago
To expand on the database point, there is a great paper by Stonebraker and Hellerstein covering the lessons learned and forgotten over the last 35 years of database research - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar
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by jamii 11y ago
Red/System is interesting - http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html#section-1 - a similar approach to Lua/Terra - http://terralang.org/
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by jamii 11y ago
Thanks, that is really interesting. I'll have to look into it.
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by jamii 11y ago
I tried MREs for a while - they are fine for camping but too high in sugar and salt for regular eating. They are also very bulky (two of these per day - http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/c/images/2013/05&#x2F
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by jamii 11y ago
I think you are taking a very black and white point of view. Yes, hardware is complex and unpredictable. That doesn't mean that we can't reason at all about performance. I take a program, measure it's performance on a wide ra
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by jamii 11y ago
Their launch comments on hn explained why they believe that using whole foods is a lower risk way to get 'everything the body needs' to actually end up in the body - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314183
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by jamii 11y ago
I tried soylent for a while and found the experience fairly unpleasant. I switched to http://www.mealsquares.com/ instead. Warmed up, they taste like a dense brownie. The thinking detailed on their website and the level of
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by jamii 11y ago
So the coherence rules don't treat self specially? That would be good to know.
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by jamii 11y ago
I actually agree with you in general, but in this case we spent six months hammering in nails with a wet sandwich because the only available hammer has a chainsaw for a handle ("it's perfectly safe, just don't ever press the
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by jamii 11y ago
I've actually written a ton of python too. The self parameter didn't confuse me because of OO, but because traits can actually dispatch on the types of all of their arguments so it wasn't clear to me what the meaning of the s
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by jamii 11y ago
Most of us don't have the time for meticulous control over instructions but those who do can certainly use it to good effect eg http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hkzg8/author_of... My ave
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by jamii 11y ago
I would be interested to hear which parts you disagree with. > I don't do any dev for webservices so it is unsurprising that the author and I have a differing of opinion I don't either, I'm working on a database / lan

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