monix

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by monix 10y ago
Other big players like Microsoft are doing it too. And that dialog can be worse: Do you like our app? <Yes, rate it> <Later> It's also freaking annoying because it interrupts your workflow, the thing for which
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by monix 10y ago
Even though an argument can be made about computers being able to scale, energy is always the only constraint that matters.
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by monix 10y ago
On the other hand AlphaGo proves that computers can scale, even if they are inefficient, whereas the only way to grow that 20 Watts brain would be to use multiple brains and that's not going to be any good in Go matches.
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by monix 10y ago
No, I was on the paid tier. If you're talking about September 2016, maybe. I was talking about 2015, being just an example of how Google's support was unhelpful.
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by monix 10y ago
For me FastMail's customers service has been better than Google Apps. And had fewer issues in general with FastMail. Google Apps has some crazy limits, like on the number of IMAP connections or email aliases, you can't normally ch
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by monix 10y ago
Truth be told, with Google Apps you get phone support and email support usually answers withing 24 hours in my experience. Problem is they couldn't help me much when I had problems. Google Apps has serious limits and contacting support
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by monix 10y ago
People that end up in a position to care about performance are using profilers and bechmarks. This is actually the first rule: don't guess, measure. Of course it helps when the platform has the proper tools for it. I end up using JMH a
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by monix 10y ago
I think you're confusing concurrency with parallelism. Indeed, when these two are combined in the same process with multiple threads sharing memory or other resources, you're effectively juggling with knives. But in fact concurren
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New Book: Mastering Advanced Scala(leanpub.com)
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