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by nameless912 10y ago
I think part of the reason for this, though, is that Lua is a very "thin" language. It purposefully doesn't have a lot of fancy features (I mean, come on, it literally has one composite datatype, and you're supposed
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by nameless912 10y ago
Android was, iirc, a completely clean-room implementation of Java's standard library, sans one method of one class that was coded the same way because it was obvious to code it that way (hence why oracle lost in the first place). If yo
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by nameless912 10y ago
In other news, water is wet.
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A better statement might be: "Don't be clever, let others be clever for you." Obviously, stdlib functions are going to be highly optimized and the compiler will put hardware-specific performance hacks in for your benefit. Sma
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It's 80% clickbaity bullshit and 20% mediocre gadget reviews. Long gone are the days when Engadget was a relevant source of tech journalism. On a tangentially related note, does anyone remember Engadget's apple-only sister site TU
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by nameless912 10y ago
Why do we have a system that uses SSNs as passwords, rather than usernames? Wouldn't it make far more sense the other way around? That way, if your SSN is stolen, it would be equivalent to getting your email address leaked. Consequen
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by nameless912 10y ago
Well sure, but erring on the side of verbosity at least ensures that someone can follow your thinking as long as the code is well structured. I would prefer to read 25 lines of decent Python over 3 lines of regexes in Perl.
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mongo developer 1 Man, it's just taking too damn long to run this update. What should we do? mongo developer 2 Uh....remove all the locks? mongo developer 1 Oh, yeah, that makes sense, let's do that. mongo developer 3 Hey,
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by nameless912 10y ago
But it does support sharting. Your entire app. Into the ether.
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I, for one, cannot believe that GPS doesn't have a pre-prod environment. I guess they just don't grok dev ops like us young hip developers. No but seriously, the fact that we don't have a backup for when GPS inevitably shit
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by nameless912 10y ago
There's actually a couple of native go debuggers these days. I don't remember what they're called off the top of my head, but the couple I've played with are very good, bordering on awesome. There's also a go fron
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by nameless912 10y ago
And in my opinion, this is a great tradeoff. Ultimately, adding more RAM to a server (or clicking a button on the AWS console) is a very easy fix. However, reducing latency is almost never easy. If they can prevent GC stuttering, I'll
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by nameless912 10y ago
I think it refers to the Perl-era idea that good code should be somehow "clever" rather than maintainable. It's how bad programmers who spend hours agonizing over how to reduce their line count (presumably to save disk space?
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by nameless912 10y ago
While it's not likely, it would be very interesting from a statistical and sociological perspective. A ridiculously inflated victory would definitely let Bernie ride all the way to the convention in a Mad Max-esque blaze of glory. Th
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by nameless912 10y ago
I would argue the moon is more difficult than Mars to colonize. No atmosphere means landing will always be, at best, a giant pain in the ass, and at worst, extremely dangerous. A lack of water of any kind makes life nigh-on impossible, as
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by nameless912 10y ago
To add onto this: I know the movie "Gravity" was just a bit of an exaggeration, but a situation whereby two different satellites are competing for the same spot in the sky and collide or otherwise negatively interact with each o
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So basically, this is org-mode but prettier. Also, I can encrypt my org notes and back them up using literally anything that will push bits.
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This is good for bitcoin.
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Yeah, cruises can be dirt-cheap these days. Especially if you live near a big cruise ship port, you can get last minute deals on 7 day cruises for a couple hundred bucks. You have to be flexible, but it can be ridiculously inexpensive. And
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So your answer is "I think so, therefore I assume so without any justification"?
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I was actually thinking about writing one meself. My plan looked something like this: Raspberry Pi with a python script running that does microphone->speech recognition (I was going to use Google's dictation service, but you could d