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by lkramer 6y ago
One thing I have noticed is that while the old hats (those hired some time before the pandemic) are as productive, or maybe even more productive while working remote, it's a struggle to bring in new people, especially more junior peopl
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by lkramer 6y ago
The next step is to massively ramp up Power to X where excess electricity gets converted into more tangible products, such as ship/aircraft fuel, or put into storage.
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by lkramer 6y ago
Me neither, I mostly clicked on the article to see if that was an actual academic headline. Glad it wasn't.
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by lkramer 6y ago
If you pull from a github server, you do so by choice. If you add Microsoft's repo to your apt sources, you do so by the choice. The problem is that the repo was added silently and without giving you a choice.
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by lkramer 6y ago
They still allow selling, just not buying.
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by lkramer 6y ago
Sorry, when I said new data structures, I meant containers like maps and list, which I very rarely get to create day to day. I can see it for your transformations, but I have seldom seen cases where generics would really help (usually we&#x
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by lkramer 6y ago
Like I said, I use (and like) several languages that have Generics, and when I need to do something where it makes sense, I can reach for those. For me there was an advantage in having a language where it wasn't an option. Your (b) sce
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by lkramer 6y ago
Can you give a real world example that couldn't be solved with interfaces? The only real cases I can see is creating new data structures, (for instance if you wanted to create your own map type).
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by lkramer 6y ago
Mostly concerned about having to read other people's code that uses it.
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by lkramer 6y ago
This is not the first time I argue this case, but I would go a step further and say that not having generics is feature of Go. There are plenty of languages out there with Generics. I use several of them. I use Go when that suits me, and it
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by lkramer 6y ago
They have also threatened to "become a Singapore style tax haven"...
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by lkramer 6y ago
My feeling is that the BBC has been quite spooked by the threats the Tories made to them after the last election to basically dismantle them. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-.
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by lkramer 6y ago
This seems like a relatively cheap promise to make. The auto industry is already moving towards this model (or full EV), likely by 2030 the production of pure petrol cars will be very limited. Including hybrids in what is allowed makes this
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by lkramer 6y ago
Another big catalyst IMO was Unity's seamless build for many platforms, including Linux. It came in parallel with the Kickstarter boom, where a lot Kickstarter campaigns would offer Linux support as a way to entice a new audience. The
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by lkramer 6y ago
I use Vim at work, a few light plugins for Go and I'm off. I'm not bothered with auto complete or any of that stuff, and it works great for me. In my spare time I dabble in Unity, and what I always get stuck on is the IDE for the
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by lkramer 6y ago
The Blackwell games hit the right nerve for me: https://www.gog.com/game/blackwell_bundle
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by lkramer 6y ago
The difference is that other people was upset by people wearing google glass, effectively making the unwilling participants. Google Home is people's own decision within their own home.
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by lkramer 6y ago
I got to read his columns while working at Bloomberg, and it was really the only thing, besides a few friendships, I took with me when I left. Still subscribed and missing his take on things while he's on parental leave (but of course
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by lkramer 6y ago
Just to be clear, this is a positive, right? Smaller cars = less environmental impact, less children = less environmental impact. Win/win...
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by lkramer 6y ago
well, all the other signs of Armageddon has appeared, so why not that one...
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by lkramer 6y ago
We use it for internal messaging between services. Particular between systems owned by different teams. It's reliable, easy to configure, have good out of the box backoff. We have used Kafka in the past and it just felt too heavy for w
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by lkramer 6y ago
Sorry, yes it came across as judgemental. I guess it's because food, especially lunch, is such an important thing in my life, pretty much the highlight of the day, it just makes me a bit sad when it's not the case for others.
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by lkramer 6y ago
I never understood the British sandwich culture. I'm currently living and working London and the number of times people will just go for a quick sandwich, which typically means some depressing mayo filled abomination with a packet of c
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by lkramer 6y ago
It reminded me of those chatbots from the 70s which would give vague replies to your question that at first glance looks relevant to what you're saying, but are actually just generic nonsense.
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by lkramer 6y ago
The world is moving towards a shrinking population, but it takes time for it to take effect: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
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by lkramer 6y ago
In The Famous Five George's real name was Georgina, she preferred to be called George because she wanted to be recognised as a boy.
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by lkramer 6y ago
Well, Tesla is valued along side these companies, not as a high end luxury manufacture. And one narrative we have been fed is that Teslas are lightyears ahead of the competition. This article seems to say that is not the case, at least in E
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by lkramer 6y ago
Quickest example of Godwin's law I've seen in a while.
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Maybe because you take away one of the big advantages of Go which is easily maintainable code, and end up with just another clone of Java/C#, so why don't you just use those instead?
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by lkramer 6y ago
At the moment it has something very valuable those languages don't have: A lack of Generics. Once they add Generics it will just be competing with those languages on the same turf. It might not be for you, you may rely heavily on Gener

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