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by nsstring96 7y ago
You get C++... take that as you will.
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by nsstring96 7y ago
Smalltalk? Interesting! May I ask what industry / product area you work in?
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After deaths, Amazon lands on list of most dangerous employers(futurism.com)
52 points by nsstring96 7y ago|10 comments
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by nsstring96 7y ago
I'm surprised they used only a twin-engined aircraft for such a long flight.
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Show HN: Splat – Simple Programming Language Tester(github.com)
3 points by nsstring96 7y ago|0 comments
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Scheme Interpreter Written in PowerShell(github.com)
3 points by nsstring96 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsstring96 8y ago
Saving in developer salaries is the only tangible one. You could argue there is less context switching for developers between languages, but I’ve never actually heard that from someone who builds the apps.
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by nsstring96 8y ago
I think that originally, it was indeed supposed to be an optimizing virtual machine. IIRC, Lattner's PhD thesis might have been about it.
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by nsstring96 8y ago
Thank you! Looks very interesting. As for working with LLVM codegen libraries, would you recommend anything beyond the official docs? I found that most books for this sort of thing are based older APIs from a few versions ago.
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by nsstring96 8y ago
This is super cool, thanks for sharing! Are there any books or other resources that you found helpful in learning and implementing Whack? I’m dabbling a little bit with PLs and would love to hear your opinion.
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The Boeing 747: The plane that shrank the world(bbc.com)
2 points by nsstring96 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsstring96 8y ago
If you need well-maintained mobile SDKs, Mapbox's pricing model is a lot more straightforward. If all you need is basic mapping on the web, OpenStreetMap is adequate.
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by nsstring96 8y ago
"we once patched openssl to ignore client cert expiry because somebody forgot to create a process to update keys in the field and all the customer cars started falling offline because their certs had expired."
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Ask HN: Good resources to learn about mission-critical distributed systems?
24 points by nsstring96 8y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Any good resources to learn about mission-critical distributed systems?
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by nsstring96 8y ago
I don't get the point of this article - why single out Google specifically, when a lot of tech companies (as the article notes) hire contractors? Furthermore, TVCs at Google can use many on-site perks, and I know a few who transitioned
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Video: Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty(youtube.com)
2 points by nsstring96 8y ago|0 comments
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by nsstring96 8y ago
For me, trying to implement an unbeatable tic tac toe game using the minimax strategy. I promised myself I wouldn’t look up any hints online outside the Wikipedia page on minimax. It was several weeks of call stack overflows, reading throug
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This Mediterranean diet study was hugely impactful. The science just fell apart(vox.com)
1 points by nsstring96 8y ago|2 comments
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by nsstring96 8y ago
LinkedIn may be looking like a decent acquisition right now, but my god it feel awfully old to use, and I'm not sure how long the first-mover advantage will mitigate these shortcomings. Performance-wise, LinkedIn seems a step slower th
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by nsstring96 8y ago
I remember Angular 4 being a thing, so they skipped 3 and 5?
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by nsstring96 8y ago
One of the problems I've noticed while using GraphQL (late last year) was that although there are 'officially supported' libraries in a number of languages, there isn't really feature parity between them. In particular,