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by luriel 14y ago
> An example of this is Quicksilver on the Mac. It's considered to be one of the best Mac apps ever and the developer who made it, decided to open source it after he decided to take a job at Google. Quicksilver development fell apart af
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by luriel 14y ago
DWM is going to be rewritten in Go.
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"Mitigated" is not the same as solved. Graphics drivers are inherently not designed to be exposed like that to hostile content.
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by luriel 14y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20100120004349/http://news.ycombi...
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by luriel 14y ago
"I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security." -- John Carmack And Carmack is not precisely known as a MS cheerleader.
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Just look at the TSA.
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by luriel 14y ago
The original work ongccgo was done by Ian Lance Taylor(of the gold linker fame) who works at Google, and now is being accepted and supported by the GCC project. So the answer to your question is: both.
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by luriel 14y ago
> I'd argue it's nigh impossible to meet someone under 30 in the US who understands how copyright law actually works. [...] But if you explained it to them, yeah, they'd probably find a lot of it a bit odd I think this is true of most p
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by luriel 14y ago
There is huge variability in private trackers, some are awful (Demono's adds have become unbearable), some are pretty good, like karagarga, which has lots of films I simply could not find anywhere else, legally or otherwise, and others are
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by luriel 14y ago
Not to mention Google just spent billions buying patents, investors might think it wasteful if then Google goes to push for abolishing software patents, even if it would still be a good business decision (those billions were never really an
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by luriel 14y ago
The story neatly illustrates how the patent system doesn't really benefit inventors and instead benefits well established corporations. And Carmack was against patents before that even, and what is more, even after that he refused to patent
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by luriel 14y ago
> At least we're starting to see notable investors rally against them, like pg and Fred Wilson - the very people who should be benefiting the most from a non broken patent system. John Carmack has been speaking out against patents for a
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by luriel 14y ago
Somebody mentioned recently that the code that is part of the `go` tool that handles sub-commands maybe should be factored out and added to the stdlib, it should be relatively straightforward. If you are also interested in that I would reco
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by luriel 14y ago
How long ago was that? The gc compilers have seen lots of improvement recently, and more will be merged soon. Also, if the problem is so pathological, it might be worth filling an issue.
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by luriel 14y ago
And people like Ken Thompson. Accusing the author of this article of being "inexperienced" is also very amusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham-Cumming And even Java and C++ luminaries like Bruce Eckel have come out in support o
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by luriel 14y ago
> I wouldn't hold my breath on getting former Bell Labs guys to work on a graphical debugger or Eclipse support, so the language is somewhat unlikely to be developed together with those tools. I wouldn't expect them to, and I also reall
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by luriel 14y ago
There are already libraries to do some of those things. There are for example several linear algebra libraries like gomatrix: http://code.google.com/p/gomatrix/ I don't know so much about bioinformatics, but I know some folks are using Go
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by luriel 14y ago
I suspect the 'usual suspects' just wrap OpenSSL, you can use Go bindings for OpenSSL too, but I'm also sure Adam Langley, who is responsible for the Go crypto lib and the main crypto guru for Chrome will be happy to help get any bits that
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by luriel 14y ago
> * A full-featured unit testing library like Python's unittest * A simple interface for defining rich command-line argument parsers like Python's argparse Most people find that the libraries for both unit testng and arg parsing in the
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by luriel 14y ago
In practice very few people have issues on 32bit systems, and for those that do there are workarounds. Also, Go works much better on 64bit systems for many other reasons, if nothing else because that is what most of the core team uses. 64bi
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by luriel 14y ago
Can you be more specific regarding what libraries you need/miss?
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by luriel 14y ago
I'm sorry to sound like a fanboy, but this is one of the reasons I love Go: is the most readable language I know. It is expressive, but free of magic, code says what it does, there is no hidden magic tricks, this annoys people used to other
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by luriel 14y ago
If you watch the "Meet the Go team" talk from Google IO, they explicitly mention that almost nothing in Go is particularly new, and most of its ideas have been around for decades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk What makes Go g
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by luriel 14y ago
> This is a throwback to the days of "Best works in IE(TM)". Exactly, it seems that a whole new generation of web developers have forgotten history. Is sad that when we thought we had left behind those awful times, and that we had learn
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by luriel 14y ago
> This whole "supporting browsers" thing should be gone, and very soon. There are specifications that browser makers should follow, and if they are all supporting those specifications, then they well be well-supported. The problem is th
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by luriel 14y ago
I do miss phones with decent (and that meas physical ) keyboards.
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by luriel 14y ago
> They are not like processes, they share the same address space. Yes, but is worth remembering Go's (concurrency) motto: Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating. With channels you can send values,
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by luriel 14y ago
In one word: channels. They might be theoretically equivalent to some degree, but in practice they are quite different, and I find reasoning about both concurrency and parallelism using goroutines and channels much more natural. Also see th
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There was a question specifically about the GC during the "Go In Production" panel at Google IO, and everyone found that the GC was up to snuff, specially on 64bit systems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A Also many improvements
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by luriel 14y ago
Shakespeare and many others also "stole" from many other authors, both classic and contemporaries. Art, by its own nature, tends to infringe so called "intellectual property" rules.

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