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by luriel 15y ago
In the end it rarely works acceptably, but that just helps sell support contracts, so it is also good for enterprisey software vendors and consultancies.
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by luriel 15y ago
> Yes I realize that Java has excellent cross platform support and a huge ecosystem Java's cross platform support is awful if you go anywhere beyond Windows, Linux, OS X and Solaris (and even there both OS X and Linux have second-class
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by luriel 15y ago
Awk, C, Go, rc, Scheme. Simple and conceptually-consistent languages that my simple mind can fully understand.
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by luriel 15y ago
Calling Go from C is supported, but is not quite as straightforward. You can also use SWIG.
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by luriel 15y ago
I agree with most of your comment. But I'm sorry, this part is not even close: > its standard library queue class ( http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html ) is very close to Go's channels so it does CSP style concurrency quite nicely
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by luriel 15y ago
The "tool & library ecosystem" in Java is one of its main reasons why many people avoids it like the plague. And that using Java is almost impossible without such tools and 'frameworks' doesn't tell you much good about the language itse
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by luriel 15y ago
And the language itself is simple and small enough that a full-re-implementation is quite feasible.
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by luriel 15y ago
Ron Minnich of LinuxBIOS and CoreBoot fame has been pointing out for years that (U)EFI is a huge byzantine horror designed to be as proprietary and closed as possible. For more see this posts: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/201
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by luriel 15y ago
I know there have been several chording patches for sam, but I don't think any of them work reliably.
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by luriel 15y ago
The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike and The AWK Programming Language are still the best books one can read about Unix text manipulation, and about Unix, period. (Part of the point is that in Unix text is supposed to be th
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by luriel 15y ago
ed, acme ( http://acme.cat-v.org ), vi. For quick one-off edits, still nothing can beat ed. Acme is great for working with many files. And vi is the last resort for environments where acme is not practical. Of course, this days real men u
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by luriel 15y ago
> * Google is resistant to any change that might improve engineer productivity beyond the rather plodding rate it has now. C++ and Java are the real house languages; Scala's not even on the table. Python is listed as a house language so
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by luriel 15y ago
Go libraries are statically linked and inlining works across libraries.
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by luriel 15y ago
Sadly that is unlikely now that DMR is dead :( But another collaboration with Rob Pike on a book about Go is likely.
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by luriel 15y ago
The rc shell by Tom Duff (original for Unix 10th Edition, later more known as the Plan 9 shell) got escaping right: http://rc.cat-v.org After using rc for scripting for years, I dread writing more than a couple of lines of sh (and csh is
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by luriel 15y ago
Google is developing Go ( http://golang.org ) and the first 'stable' release (aka "Go 1") should be out any day now. Of course from having a new language to building a whole web browser with it will take some time.
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by luriel 15y ago
> Think it's funny most people see javascript is the same as jquery. I don't think it is funny, it is rather sad. > Learn to code is the same a learning a framework? In this days of byzantine frameworks apparently yes.
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by luriel 15y ago
1) Given the nature of the bug "for ever" seems like a good guess 2) I doubt they can prove any such thing.
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by luriel 15y ago
And the journals it is published in should be open too. I know it is offtopic, but it makes my blood boil that we allow scientific research, in great part paid for with tax dollars, to be locked up in what basically are proprietary journals
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by luriel 15y ago
A very good book could be written on the topic, is one of the most sad tragedies of the 20th century. All my information is second hand, and is a very complex topic, but basically when AT&T spun off Lucent, and they tried to more direct
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by luriel 15y ago
When you are used to apt-get (or equivalent packaging systems, or download.com or whatever on Windows), the concept of paying for apps when using the App Store is baffling. I borrowed a friend's iPhone a while ago, and I could not even find
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by luriel 15y ago
I have watched this more than a dozen times, I'm still awe-struck every time I watch it, and it barely scratches the surface of all that was created at such a magical place: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/innovations_song/
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by luriel 15y ago
> One feature of this administration has been a stronger commitment to openness via Freedom Of Information Act requests. Not really: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administrati...
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by luriel 15y ago
And see this twitter 'thread' regarding the performance of pat.go vs. Sinatra: http://twitter.com/#!/go_nuts/status/169567165358407680/phot...
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by luriel 15y ago
As somebody else pointed out, MM is two thousand , not a million.
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by luriel 15y ago
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, published in 1984. Still by far the best thing written about programming with Unix, and perhaps even the best programming book ever written (up there with K&R).
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by luriel 15y ago
Do you know what := does in Go? What "common conventions" provide the same concise expressiveness? As for your complain about make(), what does it have to do with syntax? Why doesn't range require parens? Among other things because it has n
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by luriel 15y ago
What is confusing there and/or against "mainstream conventions" (whatever those are)?
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by luriel 15y ago
Python code is superficially easy to read, but to know what a piece of code really does can be extremely hard, specially when metaclassed, generators and the like are involved. Also there is plenty of Python code that is not particularly
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How Go improves expressiveness without sacrificing performance(dave.cheney.net)
49 points by luriel 15y ago|17 comments

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