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No, the objective for Rust was never to be all the way safe. Rust gets much inspired by C++ and seeks to be a systems language where " there should be no room for a lower-level language between [it] and native machine code". If yo
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People definitely differ on the "easier to read" part. I find the 4 line if statement version more difficult to read in most cases. When things get long, my favorite formatting for a c-style ternary is: my_variable = (my_ver
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Another article to add to https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
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It's important to realize that these tools just didn't exist 7-10 years ago when companies like Instagram and Dropbox were getting started. Though type inference has been around in so-called "academic" languages for deca
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Yeah, it's all about the tooling. The distributed system I used was when I worked at Amazon. Each "package" there has its own git repo, which can have multiple branches and the dependencies of each branch are versioned along
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That's fair. I think the important thing is to be able to have multiple versions of portions of your repo and then be able to version that. A branch of branches, so to speak.
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I've worked with both a distributed repo model and a monorepo model and vastly prefer the distributed approach (given the right tooling). The trade-offs are complementary and no doubt with proper discipline you can try to maximize the
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Infinitely worse? That's a bit hyperbolic.
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Is anyone using Upspin for anything?
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In addition to the ones mentioned, another issue with GWT was that the differences in browser JS environments were much more salient in 2006 (IE6 was still a massively popular browser) and browser development tools were limited. If your scr
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These videos are always mindblowing to me, but I rarely see anyone ask "how many failures did it take to make the video?" There's a huge difference between this being a 99% performance and a 1% performance.
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Eric Raymond is not a fan of Rust. See "Rust severely disappoints me"( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7294 ). On one level, he's clearly right. Go was designed to be an simple language that is easy to pick up. Rust
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Ugh. This article is just click-bait copy with with a link to a Youtube video and no original reporting. Just link the video directly rather than sending traffic to junk like this.
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There's a good chance Rust code is on your machine. If you have a recent version of Firefox or Dropbox there's Rust inside.
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Yes, my current company deals with HIPAA data. It's not a medical company but we do store and process customer data that needs to be HIPAA compliant. I can still tell my friends and family what I work on.
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I find Apple's extreme secrecy off-putting. I wouldn't want to work at a place where there is such limitations about what you can discuss with your coworkers, let alone your friends and family. But that's how things work at A
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Count me among the confused. Works are usually referenced by their publication year and, on Hacker News, I always assume something with a (YEAR) in the title was published in that year.
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You're missing my point. When we had 256k memory computers we didn't have caches because memory access was uniform. As time goes on, fitting in cache is getting more important, not less.
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What I'm saying is that the "lots of little objects" model of Smalltalk goes against the grain of modern machines and how they access memory. I'm not sure what it takes for something to be _intrinsically slow_ but it app
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After Issacson's botched Steve Job's biography, I have a difficult time trusting him for any historical figure. Issacson had unprecedented access to Steve Jobs, yet the biography really didn't provide any new insight into wh
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Kay starts off by citing Moore's law, but misses that Moore's Law hasn't been kind to Smalltalk. Specifically, CPU power has grown at a faster rate than memory bandwidth, to the point that going to main memory is hundreds of
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Mypy 0.530 Released(mypy-lang.blogspot.com)
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Maybe. I only used CS for one project, after years of primarily programming Python. I could also believe that, if applied judiciously, the characters could be dropped without harming clarity. However, the codebase I was working in had no cl
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I love Python, but I always found CoffeeScript took Python's stylistic choices too far. Making {} around object literals and () after function calls optional led to code that was very difficult to visually parse.
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This is indeed a great article about building a practical search system. However the title is a bit aggrandizing. Not every software engineer actually needs to know this stuff, just people who are building products with search capabilities.
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It would be helpful in these guidelines to make a clear distinction between changes that result in "code not compiling" versus "code behaving differently". It seems like the vast majority of cases you've enumerated
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I had the privilege of studying probability from G-C. Rota. One of my favorite quotes from him was "Randomness is not what we expect", which he used to describe the phenomenon of people disbelieving that random data was actually
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And what is the increased risk? One of my pet peeves about science reporting (including this video) is that it treats "cancer causing" as a purely binary attribute and they never report on the measured effect. When making policy w
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This question is both a leading and also ill-posed. What is preventing Rust from replacing C/C++ _where_? In existing applications? For new code development? In some particular application (e.g. game engines)? There are lots of good an
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This is switching and ES2017 is the name we should standardize on to avoid confusion. For example, Typescript accepts targets "ES6" or "ES2015" as synonyms, but it doesn't have targets "ES7" or "ES8&q

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