nostalgeek

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by nostalgeek 8y ago
The whole GDPR is an interesting phenomenon. Where I live we had this https://www.cnil.fr/fr/loi-78-17-du-6-janvier-1978-modifiee since 1978 and I didn't see anybody on HN panicking at the thought of doing busines
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> At the minimum, the verbosity problem I don't believe a single second that Java is more verbose than Go. It's just that Go hasn't been buried under layers and layers of EE ...yet. In fact the whole "if err!=nil&quot
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I still don't understand how this is going to be enforced. As much as the "cookie law" was enforced. 99.9% of all websites on the net were in infraction. To people supporting this under pretense of fighting for privacy,
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> What's so special about Amazon in comparison to the Chinese factories where those goods are manufactured? Are we just upset because these people are geographically closer? Or is it nationalism; Americans/Westerners are too go
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
You are ignoring Ada. In fact most problems with the Go languages are solved in Ada(tasks vs goroutines and channels, generics vs interface {}, synchronized data structures, variants type vs runtime plumbing to create unions...).
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> I'm confused. I don't see what makes most of the examples cited here "Brutalist" in any meaningful fashion. Because these examples have nothing to do with "brutalism" in architecture. It's just anothe
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> The standard library is improving a lot. Javascript has next to no standard lib, actually. Let's not forget that the DOM or WebAPI are not part of ECMAScript spec.
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
JS clearly has issues and I wish some of these issues could have been alleviated when ECMA introduced "use strict". It was a one time opportunity to correct the language at its core, AKA remove a bunch of features and behavior.
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
Well Ada uses := for affectation and = for actual equality. In pure algorithmic notation, people might use <- or <= instead.
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
The landing page is clearly not the one of a mature product. There is next to no documentation whatsoever about how it is supposed to work, and don't even try to get started with it if you don't know how to program with Go, nor ha
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
All I say is competition is good. I don't want to live in a world where Android is the only mobile OS out there. This is also true for the desktop space, Windows dominance is an issue, especially since the web didn't really fulfil
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
"assist" is the key here. Often big companies such as Google believe than AI can "replace", because any process involving human interaction "doesn't scale".
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> it's just syntatic sugar around the prototype model. No it allows "super" late binding, something you cannot do with functions and prototypes. It's not just "sugar".
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> He's not telling people to not learn things or advocated changes to the language. That's something he should be explaining himself instead of giving random advices about what he considers "good practices". Neither y
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
class Foo { Bar(){} } and a list of methods is in my opinion more readable than function Foo{} Foo.prototype.Bar =function(){} As for "avoid this". Really? this is part of Javascript, developers
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> What version should I use? With backend stuff I am usually responsible for installing the versions of the code / language / libraries that I use. With browsers what can I reasonably expect users to have in their browser? this
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
It did make Tunisia a bit more democratic since Ben Ali left, which is where everything started. But Egypt, where all the US reporters rushed to witness the "revolution", is back to a US backed dictatorship, Syria is in shambles,
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> Am I the only one that dislikes ArgumentExceptions - especially if I'm consuming a library (without source.) IMO - exceptions should be for exceptional situations, not invalid input handling. Diving by 0 should yield exception for
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> It seems that most people who make websites nowadays think similarly. I don't get why they are making websites for themselves, rather than for their users. Because most people making websites don't care about basic usability,
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
Yes, but AFAIK it is not multi-threaded so it's not fit for production, at all. It's good for development and testing.
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> I've actually never run into a problem debugging go binaries with gdb. Are you able to step inside code running in a goroutine? with GDB? Because it's where GDB starts to become useless for debugging.
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
interesting, is the current situation one of the reason Go debugging experience is so poor? Delve debugger is constantly crashing for me, making step debugging extremely hard, especially when debugging tests. If there is one thing that is i
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> For the record Roy Fielding is against using version numbers in URLs: https://www.infoq.com/articles/roy-fielding-on-versioning/ If Roy Fielding wanted developers to fully grasp whatever he was talking about
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> Because Jews have different risks of falling ill to many diseases than people of other races. You are still trying to conflate race with religion which makes it clear that you're here to derail the discussion. quoting myself: >
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> Judaism is not a race, being black means more than just a different skin color, you're intentionally trying to derail the discussion. no I'm not. What does being black means then? and why bring "jews" into a discuss
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> In his biography, Jacque Pepin (famous French chef) talked about how much better the food quality was in the US compared to his native France. He found American supermarket had amazing produce quality compared to the markets in France,
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> People of different races have different metabolisms and physical characteristics how many human races? if you're going to talk about categories of humans you need to precisely define them. So how many human races known exactly?
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> Jews for example more likely to have Tay Sachs disease. Sure but it's not because they practice Judaism. And since one can convert to judaism, I've never heard about someone who can convert his genes to "jew genes".
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> The Android Facebook messenger is pure cancer. Not only that, but these apps are often installed by default on android phones and can't be removed by the user without rooting the phone. there is no guarantee Facebook is not scrapi
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by nostalgeek 9y ago
> Just to echo on the search for authenticity, many places in the US will serve food at a higher level of quality than many places in the country of origin. Pretty sure it applies neither for French or Italian cuisine.

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