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by leokun 13y ago
> While many UHFT firms have moved towards custom hardware (both for processing and networking), some less latency-sensitive systematic trading firms still make use of multithreaded C, C++ and Java (with custom garbage collection). Asid
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by leokun 13y ago
Not only is it always in the top selling laptops category on Amazon, it is the only laptop that appears on the first page for me on the general computers category: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories&#
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by leokun 13y ago
This comment is going to get downvoted for meta-ness and probably because everyone disagrees with me but I just have to speak my mind: I'd like a version of hacker news sans the constant hysteria all the time.
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by leokun 13y ago
What would you do after they warn you? It's not really under your control to fix is it.
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by leokun 13y ago
Well since you can compile python, clojure, etc etc to JavaScript I guess the .js extension is meaningless. In my opinion it isn't at all OK, because a .js extension means that the code is in JavaScript, so that I can look at it, and m
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by leokun 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I do hope Rust becomes what it wants to be. :)
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by leokun 13y ago
Nice. Also HP already sells an Android laptop: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/x2/slatebook-x2.html
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by leokun 13y ago
I frequently experiment with new programming languages (go, Rust, others) and I like Dart and have tried it. That's significant evidence that I'm not close minded. However CoffeeScript was at least for me the first of its kind, so
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by leokun 13y ago
In my very uninformed, and novice opinion, which you should entirely disregard, it is my probably incorrect estimation that the Rust developers are in maybe over their heads. I don't like saying negative things about an interesting ide
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by leokun 13y ago
It's near unreadable. It's optimizing the wrong things, prettiness (I don't think it's very pretty at all) and keystroke counts, vs readability, fewer errors and maintainability. It also bugs the fuck out of me that Coff
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by leokun 13y ago
I couldn't figure out the Cat.random thing. I'm pretty sure I could code a Firefox mobile app from scratch, but that UI is confusing, though pretty.
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by leokun 13y ago
Please continue to call these things out on HN. I will continue to do so too.
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by leokun 13y ago
Well, if you were a criminal you may want to avoid mixing the two so you can pay for your defense in case you need to.
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by leokun 13y ago
> Gasoline tanks aren't 100% full all the time, either. The less gas a tank has, the more dangerous it could be. It's a common mistake to think a close to empty tank of gasoline is safer than a full one when the reverse may be
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by leokun 13y ago
Exciting to think what this might mean for RethinkDB some day. :)
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by leokun 13y ago
It's the exact same thing that happens in the browser. If you write a setTimeout and never let go, like a never ending while loop it will block your browser forever.
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by leokun 13y ago
Yes I realize, you are right on both. Anyway I haven't given up on vim because it's actually a great editor I've invested a lot of time into.
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by leokun 13y ago
Yeah I don't like how this statement came across.
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by leokun 13y ago
> VIM is an expert's tool Ah so using vim makes you an expert eh? Vim's recent popularity seems to be more of these low-skilled node.js gurus who write the meanest package.json description this side of the GitHub jumping on vim
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by leokun 13y ago
> "not really async, just timed" Let's bikeshed some more. > "And that's where this implementation fails: it makes it possible for a misbehaving 'async' call (not really async, just timed) to hijack
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by leokun 13y ago
This is an anonymous account so I wont list them, but a couple of them that you probably know of.
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by leokun 13y ago
Asking that timers be identifiable. Can you imagine if setTimeout or setIntervals were user facing in the browser in some kind of list that pops up? The entire debate about it being async or not. Nobody disputes that JavaScript is an async
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by leokun 13y ago
The right attitude is to not throw shit to the wall and see if it sticks, but to think of an idea and commit to it. With commitment comes the responsibility of doing right by your users, finishing your idea out and not giving up two weeks l
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by leokun 13y ago
Yes, fortunes. Great. So much better than the async setTimeout patch he's giving a hard time to that will let plugin developers actually build useful tools. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev&#x2F
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by leokun 13y ago
Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github
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by leokun 13y ago
I don't know, but I frequently open up incognito windows to see people on linkedin.
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by leokun 13y ago
That's not enough for a warrant. No way, I don't believe it.
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by leokun 13y ago
I'll give it a shot. :)
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by leokun 13y ago
People like to give MongoDB shit, but is actually pretty fun to use. I wouldn't use it as a "big data platform." At scale I'd use Cassandra. For relational data I'd use postgresql. For memory caching, Redis. So when
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by leokun 13y ago
Oh no I did not realize that. Thanks!

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