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by luriel 14y ago
I still can't believe GWT is not an April fools that got way out of hand.
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by luriel 14y ago
Funny you mention this, the folks at Heroku did the same: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html / https://github.com/ha/doozerd
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by luriel 14y ago
Corporate copyright is 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta... Can somebody please explain to me how this is not insane?
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by luriel 14y ago
As Ian Clarke (original designer of Freenet) put it: "It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws." And I would add that the whole world would crawl to a halt and descend into total chaos if everyone followed every law in
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by luriel 14y ago
I'm not convinced about the drugs argument, there is plenty of evidence that the chemical and medical industries have worked very well without patents in the past. See also this about patents in the pharmaceutical industry: http://levine.s
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by luriel 14y ago
Patents are government granted monopolies, to expect the government to then go back and untangle the ensuing cartels might sound fair, but I suspect it is naive or over optimistic at best.
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by luriel 14y ago
It is funny that the Unix team at Bell Labs ended up realizing the setuid was not such a good idea after all, and replaced it with a much better design in Plan 9 (meanwhile this has been pretty much ignored back in *nix land, where many lim
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by luriel 14y ago
The ARM port has improved greatly from how it was before Go1 (and even more so from where it was when Go was first announced). x64 is still the best supported arch, but everything should work on ARM fine (and quite a few optimizations have
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by luriel 14y ago
"garden-variety" int wont be int32 forever.
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by luriel 14y ago
But remember that constants in Go are untyped, so in my experience this is not such a big issue, you can do for example: f := 3.14; x := f / 2
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by luriel 14y ago
> Here, the author is simply wrong. This is another common misconception about OO. You don't need strict type hierarchies. You don't even need classes at all for OO. There are almost an infinite number of definitions of OO, I suspect th
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by luriel 14y ago
A cool, seems to include the changes that were needed by llgo: https://github.com/axw/llgo
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by luriel 14y ago
It might look like they do whatever they like because pretty much they do whatever they like.
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by luriel 14y ago
I think the issues with the Paul campaign were more due to incompetence than malice. His management style is very hands off, and that means some of the people around him which are some times rather clueless or nutty end making a bit of a me
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by luriel 14y ago
Another example of how patents actually hinder and harm innovation. Which is not surprising when you start to think of them as government granted monopolies.
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by luriel 14y ago
They guys that built OKCupid are now building StatHat using Go, and seem quite happy with it.
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by luriel 14y ago
Seriously, try Go for a while, it wont take long before you feel that you have three hands, and more importantly, an extra third eye.
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by luriel 14y ago
This is one of the reasons I love Go: simple, clean, concise, expressive, and completely free of dark magic. Code does what it says, and says what it does. You don't get to feel so clever doing magic tricks, but you gain a lot of time by no
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by luriel 14y ago
Yea, I'm a big fan of much of Rob's work (from Plan 9 to Go), but about this he is plain wrong. At the same time I'm a big critic of RMS and his work (from GCC to the GPL, passing by the Free Software Song ;) but he is right that software p
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by luriel 14y ago
> Java, C, PHP, all of which I don't use and have no interest in. But there is significant value in all of them and we are all better off for their existence. I doubt we are better off for PHP's existence (only mentioning the oxymoron "
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by luriel 14y ago
Security best practice: "Avoid Adobe products."
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by luriel 14y ago
GSM is a pretty horrid standard, and it has plenty of security issues of its own to the point that the title of a talk on GSM security at CCC was "SRSLY?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4EDAF5OlM
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by luriel 14y ago
> It's really a huge mess. That and the government's encryption app is closed source and not peer reviewed. What is insane and scary is that anyone is forced to use the governments encryption app.
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by luriel 14y ago
> Software is infinitely more complex than even space shuttles. That is not an inherent property of software, the problem with software is that it makes it all too easy to hide complexity, and that some of the costs of complexity are no
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by luriel 14y ago
And another example of how industries clinging to obsolete business models try to hold back progress and keep everyone else stuck in the past. Really sad and scary.
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by luriel 14y ago
As a (somewhat proud) European who loves pure science and space, I'm sorry to say I think your points are too accurate, put another way: is a waste of government's money when most EU governments are drowning in debt and really can't afford
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by luriel 14y ago
Yes! Please! The time for saner alternatives to SQL for querying relational databases is long overdue. Is sad that Postgres completely replaced QUEL with SQL, it was not the best language ever, but some competition and alternatives in this
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by luriel 14y ago
It is well known (but sadly still surprising for many) that capitalists are some of the biggest enemies of capitalism. What you are describing is regulatory capture , and is caused by government power, if government didn't have so much pow
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by luriel 14y ago
Copyright is a government granted and government enforced monopoly. Its got little to do with capitalism.
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by luriel 14y ago
Here is an issue (that has bitten me and took lots of blood and sweat to find out): cat a b c | grep '^foo'

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