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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Meh, this is essentially a consensus argument which falls flat because gold’s value is ultimately based on consensus.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
It’s not a currency. It’s digital gold. Gold isn’t easy to exchange and it’s deflationary but it’s a good place to store your money for the long term, especially if you live in an unstable country. What makes bitcoin valuable is that it’s g
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Inspiring to see successful startup founders re-investing in the community: Andy Hertzfeld Mitch Kapor Patrick Collison Drew Houston Alex Payne Josh Elkes Carlin Wiegner Notion UCSF
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
I fully support Mozilla for doing this. Developing a browser is expensive and money doesn’t grow on trees. Cheers Mozilla
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Are you saying black people can’t take a joke? Holy crap dude.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
What is the target audience of this? What are the intended use cases? Is this supposed to be used directly by users or as an API for a user-facing application? How is this different from a document DB like MongoDB?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Bitcoin is modern gold. You can travel across borders with literally millions in your pocket without having to trust anyone. If you can’t see the value of that then you are being willfully ignorant.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
This is just your bias disguised as virtue. Bitcoin is a blip compared to everything that “wastes” energy. By the way there is no such thing as a waste of energy. This isn’t soviet Russia, neither you nor the government dictate how one is a
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Well, the go standard library is mostly written in Go, and Joy is supposed to convert go... so shouldn’t this just work?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
There is a statement in that document that says that much of the standard library hasn’t been translated but isn’t most of the Go standard library written in Go? Why can’t Joy convert the standard library?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
“Nobody is saying anything other than that. They're pointing out how dumb the decision is.” I think filtering people based on ability to solve trivial binary tree manipulation problems is brilliant. Seems to objectively be working out
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Welcome to the free market, where private companies are free to hire or not hire at will based on criteria that works for them. Writing OSS doesn’t entitle you to any job. Also “inverting” a binary tree is a trivial computation exercise. Th
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
You don’t need to teach a child that 1+1=2, they already know it’s true. You just need to teach them what the symbols mean. Every child knows that you can put two rocks together.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
You only need multi volumes to prove 1 + 1 = 2 if you start with first order logic. If you start with the rules of basic arithmetic, it takes less than a page. There is no fundamental difference when changing your starting assumptions other
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Startup idea: application that automatically syndicates comment threads in your email inbox back to your website.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
It was underhanded because you were giving a compliment but meant it to be an insult. Your reply here is willful ignorance and it’s done with malicious intent. The fact that you are being defended shows that HN is a echo chamber that ultima
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Companies shouldn’t burn people out in the first place. Calling this bandaid a “Sabbatical” is just marketing to avoid looking bad for their poor management. They should use another word and not tarnish the very old tradition of academic sa
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Read first paragraph after “In comments” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html doesn’t matter if you agree, snark is not supported here. On the other it’s fine if you agree with tptacek’s intent but you were more
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
In C++ there is at most only one compare (presumably at the spot where the exception was detected). In Rust there is a compare all the way up the stack after every function call site, and it is executed if an error happens or not.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
This “Sabbatical” trend in software companies is really toxic. It’s a justification that allows companies to burn people out without looking bad. A sustainable interesting career doesn’t need a break. It’s a subtle admission that you’re ove
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
> They only execute instructions when they happen... but they still inhibit the optimizer when they don't. Calls that may throw act like branches in the control flow graph. This is a fair point and elucidates the trade off being mad
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
It’s not exactly tied to that implementation but because error sum types are runtime values, it’s not clear whether a statement like “return foo” should return a normal value or do stack unwinding.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
I agree with your final point. Sadly Rust’s model for errors is tied to a specific implementation. That is, you must issue check instructions after every function call. In C++, errors are truly zero-cost: Exceptions only cause overheard whe
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Ditto, y’all were a good crowd
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
LOL eigenmachter here. Pouring one out for john2 and his gf
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) may have had something to do with it.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Seems like Microsoft is potentially being targeted for writing an x86 emulator https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-sti...
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
ISAs can be patented. Intel is patenting their latest AVX/SSE instructions.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
“inline” is more about linkage than about actual inlining. The compiler will in-line regardless of that attribute.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Constexpr is not necessary. Only required if you want to ensure that a variable is initialized with a pre-computed value. The compiler will optimize in either case if it can, regardless of the constexpr attribute.

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