luriel

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by luriel 15y ago
Somehow I don't find this too surprising, Google Groups was promising many years ago, but this days it is in a rather depressing state: - Search works much worse than either inside Gmail or googling a different web archive of a mailinglist
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by luriel 15y ago
Just because other technologies are even worse doesn't make WebGL's security any more acceptable. John Carmack: "I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security
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by luriel 15y ago
I'm fairly sure will be almost always free (except for live shows, and physical records as merchandise). Music was free before copyright came along in the last couple of centuries, and is natural for it to be free again now that distributio
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by luriel 15y ago
You got it totally backwards, it is prohibition that causes the corruption. We have seen this before with alcohol prohibition in the US.
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by luriel 15y ago
> How did it get to this level? The same way the US got to the level where it decided to abolish alcohol prohibition. This story is not new, just now politicians have a harder time admitting they did something wrong, and the prison (wor
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by luriel 15y ago
"Real time" can mean many different things. And how "fast" and "real time" a desktop feels usually has little to do with the technically real time (or lack of thereof) of the kernel. That said, Plan 9 has an interesting implementation of re
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by luriel 15y ago
I think Erlang is great, and have been a big fan for a long time, but as you say, it has its limitations and it is nice to have a quite different alternative with Go for concurrent systems. > Erlang, for example, is admitted as being a
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by luriel 15y ago
Also the great concurrency model would be nice to handle the ever-growing number of inputs (and outputs) mobile apps have to deal with.
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by luriel 15y ago
Fun fact: Brad Fitzpatrick, author of the original (in C) memcached is now part of the core Go team at Google. One thing he did was write this memcached client lib that is used for Go on AppEngine: https://github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache B
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by luriel 15y ago
There are a surprising number of organizations using Go in production for such an extremely young and fast evolving language, and they all seem quite happy with it, including Canonical, Heroku, the Open Knowledge Foundation and others For a
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by luriel 15y ago
> I'm really warming to Google - very impressed with the way they've re-skinned and consolidated their product set - it feels like they've crossed a bridge that Microsoft couldn't. Google Apps users still feel second-class, but seems th
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by luriel 15y ago
> They get a degree and expect to get a job the next day just because. Yes, and what is more, they expect to magically get a job even if they got a degree in Minoan pottery, or post-modern French feminist theory. But to be fair this iss
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by luriel 15y ago
> What if one of your parents passed away while you were young? Actually one of my parents did pass away while I was relatively young, but my family history is 'unconventional' to say the least, that might be why I'm weird and seem to h
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by luriel 15y ago
Also swearing is often a sign that you care , and people (at least smart people) like talking to people who care.
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by luriel 15y ago
> GoDaddy's ads basically communicate "We're sketchy and lowbrow." And, typically speaking, I want neither of those things in a domain registry service. Exactly! The popularity of such extremely sketchy registrars is disturbing, of cour
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by luriel 15y ago
I can see how some people think it is cool, but I'm the only one creeped out by this? I'm probably weird and I'm not sure I can explain it rationally, but if my parents had done something like this I'm not sure I'd be too amused. Maybe it i
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by luriel 15y ago
Many developers already moved on, no need to wait for Adobe's permission to do so.
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by luriel 15y ago
Flash has had chronic performance and reliability issues even on Windows. And you forgot to mention one of the main issues with Flash: security (or the lack of thereof), it has had so many holes it is starting to make Active X look good (hy
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by luriel 15y ago
If that really bothers you, you can either search for 'golang' or you can use this custom search engine: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search But really if that is your biggest issue with the language, I think they are doing a pretty damned
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by luriel 15y ago
> The guys who made Go have worked together at Bell labs for year on stuff like Plan 9 and to me it seems that they lost touch with the rest of the world. Before they worked on Plan 9 they created Unix, that the *nix world lost its way
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by luriel 15y ago
Also Russ Cox is one of the main hackers in the Google Go team and wrote the new (pure) Go regexp engine based on his work on re2. Of course the Go team also includes Ken Thompson who popularized regexps with Unix, and Rob Pike of 'structur
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by luriel 15y ago
> For most people, though, hours of availability can be more or less implicit. For most people I'm quite sure hours of availability can not be guessed based on what timezone they are in, most people are busy, their windows of availabi
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by luriel 15y ago
Go's cross-platform portability is quite good, writing portable Go code is infinitely easier than writing portable C or C++ code, and probably as easy or more than Java.
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by luriel 15y ago
Go still compiles to native code and provides direct control over the memory layout of your data structures. This alone makes it considerably more low level than anything that runs on the JVM.
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by luriel 15y ago
One of the reasons Go programmers love it because it does not appease Java and C++ developers. On the other hand Go for the most part appeases C developers quite nicely.
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by luriel 15y ago
> It appears to be common Hackernewserthink that "productivity" equals "the ability to write code as fast as possible". Beyond the first few weeks of coding, you'll spend much more time reading code and refactoring it. And even more tim
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by luriel 15y ago
This is one of the reasons why Google killing Code Search is so sad.