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by kaib 16y ago
I think this is a hard question to answer without a solid definition of popular. That said, at our startup we use Go for all server side work and I wrote Go production code while still working for Google. In my little world it's very popula
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by kaib 16y ago
While the tweeted 'stack' only responds to pings the other work by sics in general and Adam Dunkels in particular is very interesting. I've ran their Contiki OS and uip stack on a atmega8 microcontroller that had 8 kB of Flash and 1 kB of S
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by kaib 16y ago
This is an interesting article but even more interesting is the series of articles that the author links to. I've been involved in several high profile products with different locations on the too much or too little debt axis. It always fel
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by kaib 16y ago
In this context systems language is difference from having access to the operating system. A systems language lets you write things like device drivers or operating systems.
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by kaib 16y ago
> With respect to the finer control over memory allocation I think you are understanding it wrong. Go lets you control memory layout, think deciding how things are laid out in a struct. In Java you get indirection and pointers instead.
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by kaib 16y ago
> Can you build code that only touches memory with explicit malloc/free (or equivalent) calls? Yes you can. There is a package called 'unsafe' that lets you do pointer arithmetics and turn pointers into valid go types. It requires a bit
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Redundancy vs. Dependencies(yosefk.com)
1 points by kaib 16y ago|0 comments
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by kaib 16y ago
pg: “The way of the future is no fixed amount, no fixed closing date, and no lead.” This concept is unfamiliar to me? What does it mean? What compromises a "rolling" financing deal?
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by kaib 16y ago
There is one interesting argument for not using the OS virtual memory system. By using VM you have just turned disk errors into RAM errors. Many programs can potentially handle disk corruption, almost none can cope with bad RAM.
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by kaib 16y ago
I've always considered serving as a conscript in the Air Force to be a huge asset. Specifically because you have no need for further hazings .. :-)
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by kaib 16y ago
I think the article has a great set of ideas but if you follow this advice blindly you might risk flailing around doing everything badly instead of doing one or two things really well. As long as you cover your whole customer acquisition pi
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by kaib 16y ago
I totally want to buy one of your wallets but you are currently out of stock on everything except the garish pink ones..
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by kaib 16y ago
In general it seems to refer to the fact that drinking and irrigation water is becoming more scarce in parts of the world and we need both technological and social systems for managing this resource. Aside from pure diminishing of water sto
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by kaib 16y ago
> If you want to take the code and run off with it in the sunset, you're perfectly able to do so. Instead of at least re-using/borrowing code from LLVM, they decided to embark on a rather laborious and difficult aspect of language devel
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by kaib 16y ago
> So by all means, explain to me why the non-gcc implementation (6g, 8g) for Google Go not being LLVM somehow isn't classic NIH. Disclaimer: I know a bit about the background to the choice, I wasn't involved but I've seen the consequenc
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by kaib 16y ago
At work I'm writing internal infrastructure, at home I'm working on a CNC controller.
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by kaib 16y ago
> "function-returning function which accepts a function as an argument" I write almost exclusively Go day to day and I've noticed I no longer shy away from function pointers like in C. It's not that the C version can't be mastered, it's
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by kaib 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, what culture are you living in or where did you grow up? The definition of depression varies from culture to culture and I'm interested in understanding how your cultural background is influencing your perception.
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by kaib 16y ago
I think there is a confusion between being young and having enough savings to last you for a year or two. Many young people have zero expenses and thus having two years saved up is easy. For older people, especially with kids, it means you
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Ask HN: How to achieve and maintain mastery in spoken English?
1 points by kaib 16y ago|1 comments
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by kaib 16y ago
> an unreasonable amount of wealth given she didn't create it in the first place Western society at large believes that domestic life plays a very significant role in the process of creating wealth which is why most jurisdictions award
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by kaib 16y ago
There are a lot of jurisdictions in the world where this is impossible due to common restrictions in the employment contracts. California, yes. Many other places, no.
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by kaib 16y ago
> If someone wants to sell a high-density rack of ARM boards,I'll buy those too I'd love to see something like this as well. Just CPU, memory and networking (disks can be served from other machines).
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by kaib 16y ago
A few minutes after the horrible video editing it turns into a great full screen narrated tour. Just grit your teeth in agony until then...
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by kaib 16y ago
I interviewed with Google four years ago and have been working there since. None of my interview questions were of the puzzle variety. Many were coding and some interviews were completely open ended of the type "You seem to have done a lot
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by kaib 16y ago
> The one that really bothers me is #88, 'box shot 3d'. If you don't ship boxed software, you shouldn't have a picture of boxed software on your site. You should A/B test it, shouldn't you? At least a number of years back windows users
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by kaib 16y ago
> "If in the end it was the home owners who shouldn't have bought homes that caused the collapse" The problem with placing the blame on the homeowners is that the state stepped in and saved some of the parties in question from counterpa
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by kaib 16y ago
> and even if they get lost Patrick can find them for you if you send him an email. I think this nicely sums up a lot of things about your business. Your users know you by name and trust you (competently) answer their emails .. :-)
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by kaib 16y ago
I think you can have your cake and eat it too. A webapp that's task centric can still offer export and import features for power users. You are right that if people stop asking then such a feature might not be provided but at least for now
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by kaib 16y ago
I did hang-gliding and spent a year building wooden boats. It's interesting how doing a deep dive into something totally different helps giving perspective on things.

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