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by leon_ 15y ago
yup, reading fefe too. there should be more blogs like this.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Why does the loser get the reward?
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by leon_ 15y ago
I know that shared libs are prominent and a better support for them would probably help Go's popularity. (Though the idea behind shared libs is somewhat flawed.) But it rocks to deploy a Go app by just sending the binary to a dozen of serve
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by leon_ 15y ago
I bet there are many static typed, compiled languages. But they never get any traction because they are not "sexy" like the newest hyped dynamic language. There are many devs who don't care for static typing - they just want to hack their b
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by leon_ 15y ago
I miss the occasional pointer arithmetic in string manipulations. But that's all I miss of the mentioned features.
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by leon_ 15y ago
For me it's only preference at the moment. My Go code isn't that performance critical that I couldn't implement it with Python. But having not to put up with the whitespace/indentation hell of python is a great relief. Though the Go ecosyst
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by leon_ 15y ago
Go turned out to be a pretty nice general purpose language. You got garbage collection, sane native string handling, native maps and lists. Mix that with static typing and you got a pretty nice language that enables fast and sane web develo
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by leon_ 15y ago
yeah, app engine is pretty limited in that regard. that's why my current go webapp (which needs to send sms and IM) won't run on the app engine. ec2 ahoi ...
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by leon_ 15y ago
I don't get the need for harmony everywhere. We're all adults and should be able to cope with someone saying the F* word in relation to a really shitty technology. I accepted that for HN I have to fabric soften my comments but only because
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by leon_ 15y ago
This may sound a little harsh but: That's the risk with putting all your eggs into someone else's basket. Especially if that someone is a faceless corporation with famous bureaucracy. FB closed my account earlier this year too, because I ha
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by leon_ 15y ago
news in 140 chars ... reminds me of that movie where they water their plants with soda.
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by leon_ 15y ago
just abuse the word. I hate that everything is "hacking" now - so I started overusing the word. whenever I'm doing something I am hacking. (Sometimes it's not limited to computer activities.) I hope other people will will catch on and overu
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by leon_ 15y ago
Or Angry Birds. It only became a success after the devs got a publisher with contacts to Apple. > "we went to Apple with Chillingo and said, 'We've got something here.'" > On February 11, 2010, Apple agreed to feature Angry Birds on
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by leon_ 15y ago
So where's the Epic Loot plugin? ;) I personally don't get anything from gamification - but I know people who love collecting achievements and badges. So that plugin is a nice addon for them them I guess. And as long as it's optional I don'
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Java There's something (possibly irrational) in me that has a deep aversion against Java. Maybe it's from my job as game developer for J2ME devices back in 2003. Java is to me 90% boiler plate 10% actual app logic. > Scala Burn me
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Go on AppEngine I hope that's the "surprise" Andrew mentioned on twitter: > http://twitter.com/#!/go_nuts/status/63762141555064832
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by leon_ 15y ago
Like the other commenter said: Functions/Fields in structs that start with a capital letter are visible to other packages. Functions starting with lower case letters are like C static and fields are (package) private. I'm not perfectly happ
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by leon_ 15y ago
Go replaced python for me. Today morning for example I wrote a utility/demon that controls my Macbook Pros's Fan under Linux (because out of the box the fan stays @ 2000rpm till somewhere around ~80C). I've also written 2 smaller web apps u
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by leon_ 15y ago
After playing around with the Hexrays C decompiler we got I decided to stay with analyzing disassemblies.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Also if you understand the project well enough to write documentation you have to have the ability to put yourself into a new user's position. Many people lack this ability and create just unusable docs.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Open source is for people who are better at this than me. If you think that then you're possibly better than the most people contributing to OSS. Just look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by leon_ 15y ago
> weak social links I guess Stalin believed in "In doubt kill em all". Weak social links won't save you when there's a psychopath on the throne.
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by leon_ 15y ago
well, you could expect someone who handles server to know his ways around partitioning a volume?
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by leon_ 15y ago
If you just keep to "release what you alloc/new/copy" you'll be golden.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Obj-C has the flexibility of C So I guess you implemented duck typing with some void-pointer acrobatics in C?
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Is anyone using Objective-C for some reason other than writing OS X or iOS apps? I'd love to. I played with GNUstep but ... it's just light years behind Apple's runtime. Obj-C is a pretty nice language if you like smalltalk OO.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Well, call me weird but I like the .h/.c split. Header files are awesome for a quick lookup. Big implementation files are not. About the stack ... well if you care about performance to this degree in your Obj-C code chances are you should i
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by leon_ 15y ago
See, economical benefit. There's the problem. I say it's possible but not with our current form of society. > You think there's some conspiracy of corporations to waste money on unskilled labor to maintain capitalism? Think about it and
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by leon_ 15y ago
> There is a need for mundane labor, requiring little education/creativity. Well actually there has not been any real need for that for years now. With automation we could replace all those "dull" work places. But the problem is: What d
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by leon_ 15y ago
Germany here. I'm with you on this one. But you must understand that HN is full of to-be-millionaires who are pursuing the american dream. Morality has no place in their lives.

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