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by nnq 7y ago
1. enabling cleverness enables creating tool to manage complexity, and hopefully, to manage it with fewer people needed 2. Google "sets the intellectual trend/fashion", whether we like it or not, their attitude get copied...
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by nnq 7y ago
> the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt All the respect for Rob Pike, but that makes no sense: learning ANY new language should be even easier for someone fresh out of school, and I imag
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Ask HN: Why is Google in love with purposely-impaired languages like Go, Dart?
37 points by nnq 7y ago|40 comments
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by nnq 7y ago
What's Julia's story on the NLP area? Would it be a good choice for "production-R&D" in this area? ...asking as someone who tool an interest in Julia a few years ago but jumped away from it bc it seemed not mature en
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by nnq 7y ago
> you see another language try to come up to solutions to a problem you never had ...didn't Swift have the same problem to witch it came with the same solution? (I mean `?.`)
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by nnq 7y ago
Just saying... IF a team of experts would put time and effort into curating and editing and adding in useful interactive vizualizations into a subset of Wikipedia I'd care about I'd pay a hefty subscription for it! Really, Encarta
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by nnq 7y ago
I still can't believe it how these kinds of things are not OBVIOUS to ALL UI and UX designers out there! This resources should be drilled into every UX/I designer's head. It's amazing how much pain and frustration can
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by nnq 7y ago
Dunno how this applies across the world, but, my 2 cents: I'm fully "self educated" like in not even bootcamps, just jumped straight into taking client work from zero programming experience (well, I did hack on some research&
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by nnq 7y ago
I'm usually Russia-phobic, but would you rather live in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan etc., or in Russia? And mega-states like U.S. and Canada and Australia clearly provide a decent standard of living and good wide labour marke
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by nnq 7y ago
Yeah... this is sort of a dangerous idea, constant but "restrained" (like in "let's be gentlemen and don't kill millions or hundreds-of-thousands, instead mostly keep it up to tens-of-thousands") interstate con
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by nnq 7y ago
...some parts of the world desperately need the modern equivalent of "regional empires" , it's clear that lots of small nation states have a tendency to degenerate into these kinds of dystopias. Some Central Asian Federation
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by nnq 7y ago
Well, practically it is for the caller to decide, you can `await` on a function (use it as if it were sync), or don't, grab it's `Future<something>` result and work with that (async). Now `async`, you could see it as an impl
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by nnq 7y ago
So... you're saying randomness would be subjective / observer-dependent? Something can be random for one observer and deterministic for other, and that in all cases we can imagine an "outer" observer for whom anything c
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by nnq 7y ago
Hallelujah! Maybe this will put a dent in the current dumbification trend of all apps/UIs etc. that's probably due to 'designing for the lowest common denominator'. Hint: any app/tool/etc. that's "
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by nnq 7y ago
I guess you're right. Users do tell the difference! But they usually tell the difference between laggy (even 100ms IS noticeable!) and janky UI vs. snappy & smooth UI . It's not about the graphic styles and font widths and
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by nnq 7y ago
...ok, tbh TS has a much more powerful and expressive typesystem then Dart, otoh it also works with the constraint of being a superset of JS hence some things are forced to be the way they are since they sit on the foundation they sit. I do
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by nnq 7y ago
...only if in the sense that money can get you killed :) Drivers aren't that friendly and attentive :P
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by nnq 7y ago
Yep, React Native has horrible dev experience... this is what drove me to Flutter. Dart may be ugly but after you get used to it it's mostly "Typescript done right" imo ;)
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by nnq 7y ago
Sorry, but your linked source is off-topic, ancient (2013!), and compares the wrong things (native mobile apps vs. old-generation-hybrid-web-mobile apps). The relevant comparison here would be between: - (1) truly native uni-platform mobile
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by nnq 7y ago
> Coherent UI is a very important point to users Nah, it ain't. At all! I used to believe it did. That's what we geeks think. And on mobile it doesn't matters for us either - keybings working consistently doesn't ma
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by nnq 7y ago
Not sure if I've met a 10x developer. But there are 1/10x devs and managers for sure :) ...bring one into your team and overall productivity drops by an order of magnitude.
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by nnq 7y ago
> Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base Paul Graham's essays are widely known among the HN user base, especially the "Beating the Averages" [1] one. Some of those who've read it know a bit more ab
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by nnq 7y ago
Does this lock you in to the Azure cloud, or can it actually be run on your own machines too?
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by nnq 7y ago
Thanks for the link and input. Any reason a team already more familiar with Postgres than MySQL would go for the latter in this case, is MySQL somehow more suited for such scenario? Or your just mean "just pick a RDBMS" , so choi
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Ask HN: Best DB tech to build “Facebook” today?
6 points by nnq 7y ago|6 comments
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by nnq 7y ago
OK "modern" might be a misnomer, all concepts are 20+ yo here, but... async with promises (like in basic concurrency without execution parallelism, just io p), channels, then actors, stm maybe. Most books seem to have a chapter on
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by nnq 7y ago
> not obvious to me that cheap electricity is worth it. Why would you say that? I mean sure, if you can't manage to get cost-effectiveness right then it's not worth it. But otherwise dirt-cheap and readily available electricity
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by nnq 7y ago
> PG's ANSI Common Lisp Would you say PG's ANSI Common Lisp is better or worse (as a zero-to-hero intro to CL for an "experienced" programmer in other languages) than Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp ? I&#
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by nnq 7y ago
> Neighboring lines trip > As a last step you turn on your nuclear plants ...don't get it: why would you turn off your nuclear power plants, even if the grid failed?! Won't it make more sense to keep it runni
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by nnq 7y ago
It does not. I think logic itself is limited. Mathematicians have something where like there's stuff in number theory that's "beyond" any logic system invented (so far), something like Math > Logic, even if intuitivel

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