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by jimsimmons 5y ago
Someone gets it. There is no true computer science company. Google works on search and retrieval which is one of the fundamental problems in CS. But they sell ads. Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are in a way programming language startups in
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I’ve been exploring a similar space. Mind expanding on why you think the combo sticks?
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I don’t understand how anyone can take any issue with someone reducing fake news however biased they are. Some scientist spend their entire lives critiquing certain areas of research. That doesn’t make them less valid or valuable. In fact i
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They are crazy at the start. The ones that do succeed do so by having a plan. Not by trying to be crazy / rebel without a cause. We still don’t know all the variables. Those with experience knew some and ultimately executed on it. They
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You ask as if these people were working with Iron Man and Jarvis. The things you describe would take at least weeks to build. “Full space suit like helmet with air to be able to talk over radio “ retrofitted to work with whatever dive equip
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by jimsimmons 5y ago
You don’t seem to understand the power that a platform like Musk’s has. What if those humble cave divers thought Elon knows his stuff and pursued his plan instead of theirs? What if they got pressured by outside entities, whomever they mayb
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Appreciate the answer. I just saw the Sasa talk the other day incidentally and pre emption value is pretty clear now. It’s so clever and well thought out, I think I start too see value of Erlang now
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Nice, finally a straight answer. To be clear, this is because Erlang forces you to think about such failures and also because the entire stack being designed for such fault tolerance, correct?
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It’s pretty nifty. But I’m dumbfounded these features haven’t been copied over to other async runtimes. This is why I wonder if there’s a hidden catch that Erlang supporters don’t talk much about
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Immutable memory — writing functional Python or Rust can come close. Pre emp scheduling — I assume this is to prevent deadlocks? This and everything else is very nice but do we need a full VM for that? I’m not trying to be a jerk but I wan
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I agree. But Twitter’s fact checking in India is not about such nuanced matters. Someone literally makes up Hindu-Muslim BS and spreads it on social media when it’s demonstrably false. This is what folks like Alt News do. Bust fake news abo
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Perhaps you should think of your tilt when you see ideology in fact checkers
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PyCharm has local history that tracks non commit diffs and it has saved my day many times
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Self driving cars aren’t there. Which planet are you living in
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That really doesn’t answer the question. What does the BEAM VM provide that cannot be implemented in Rust or Go or even Python.
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Wonder who the first exclusive listing is.
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I don’t understand. Which way is simpler?
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This is the millionth time I’ve come across this post. I always had assumed this post was about Typed / multiple Dispatch for whatever idiotic reason. So glad that this has been well pointed out. Oof big relief
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This is not a bad idea. But coupling with protocol buffers is an issue and JSON doesn’t have a standardised way to parse expressions
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Sudden?!
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Good way to put what’s wrong with Python async and probably by extension C++ too. The sync-async in both direction need to be symmetrical for it to make sense. Right now in Python async can interact with Python sync quite comfortably but th
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Who are you, the master of articulation _/||\_