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by nvarsj 6y ago
I love go but the OP is completely right. Lack of basic collection functions is incredibly aggravating and slows down productivity substantially. At least it's not as bad as Java.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The statistics are useless. They tell you nothing about the percentage of unhappy marriages. Only the ones where it was convenient enough to be able to separate. There is also huge cultural stigma against divorce in most places. This is why
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Your experience is very similar to mine. I got most of my early programming chops doing C programming on a MUD. I also had the experience of a very religious mother throwing away all of my DnD / fantasy related games, because of the cr
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Well, the government used to enforce antitrust laws. Microsoft got into a huge anti-trust battle over simply bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Compare this to the state of iOS, which is in far worse shape - internal APIs that only Ap
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Emacs was never intended as "just a text editor" and it shouldn't strive to be one. It was the first IDE and it is infinitely better than almost any other IDE in terms of customizability. It's main drawback was a lack of
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Thanks for the paper. The data tables for it just proves my point. For example, in the binary-trees test, Java used 1120 Mb. Go used 228, Rust used 180, Lisp used 373, Haskell used 494 Mb. Only Jruby and Erlang seem to require more memory u
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by nvarsj 6y ago
So if I care about performance, I would use the JVM? I spent years as a performance engineer on HFT trading systems tuning JVMs. It’s possible to get very good performance on the JVM, but it is also hard and for the layman almost impossible
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> Who was it that turned GC off entirely, minimized allocation and just restarted their VMs when they ran out of RAM every couple of hours, was that Netflix? This was common practice in trading firms that got on the Java hype train. Turn
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by nvarsj 6y ago
There’s no defending Nvidia’s approach to Linux and OSS. It is plain awful no matter how you try to twist the reality. And it is actively damaging because it forces extra work on OSS maintainers and frustrates users. You should not be requi
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by nvarsj 6y ago
del.icio.us was the epitome of web search and discovery for me. I used it over other search engines back in the day. It was great at finding sites on esoteric topics. I think human curated search like this is the best kind. Unfortunately th
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by nvarsj 6y ago
These Ryzen chips look like game changers for laptops. Intel has stagnated for so long in comparison. Preliminary reports show near desktop performance for the Ryzen chips, and they blow Intel mobile chips out of the water - like 200% faste
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> No fuss. No conflicts, it just works. I felt the same until they stopped supporting most Linux filesystems bizarrely - forcing me to reimage multiple machines. Despite years of perfect behaviour on non-ext4. I also think the price is v
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by nvarsj 6y ago
That's not a bad idea - I may go the same route. I like go for a lot of reasons. But these idiosyncrasies really drag the language down at times.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Also, ironically, go doesn't even do this - it fails compilation on the most useless and pedantic of errors - unused variables and imports. Despite the fact that it's common practice to comment out sections of code during developm
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It depends entirely on the geolocation database being used to map your IP address to location. wttr.in seems to use https://www.ip2location.com/ so maybe they have better mappings for your ISP. Bigger providers tend to use
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Macbooks don't have cellular modems. iPads have had them for a long time since they are derived from the mobile iOS. Not that anyone should really even care about this - phone tethering works perfectly fine for almost anyone unless you
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Don't get me wrong - I really do love Haskell. And I don't think the language extensions are bad. I just mean that Haskell doesn't feel like a coherent, commercial language to me. It is basically a bunch of PhD thesis's
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The last android device I bought was a Samsung tablet. It was sort of near the end of its sale life, and I got a good deal. However it received only one update after that - 6 months later. It was basically supported for only 6 months. The f
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Haskell is probably the exact opposite of what you are looking for. It's basically a pile of every academic's pet language feature. I would suggest you try Common Lisp or Clojure, which will probably be closer to what you are look
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by nvarsj 6y ago
These things are fairly subjective. But it’s hard to argue that Catalina has good font rendering on regular DPI screens. I dealt with it when I had to, but it was very poor. There are also tons of bugs around it. Like the chroma issue - App
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Interesting you mention Emacs. The Mac port of Emacs runs noticeably slower than Linux depending on operation (magit especially is very slow). This is due to the much slower fork call on OS X I believe. I found Emacs so painfully slow on a
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by nvarsj 6y ago
DikuMUD is _the_ influential mud code base. So many derivatives came from it - including my favorite, CircleMUD. There were also rumors that Everquest was directly inspired (and perhaps even some code lifted!) from DikuMUD. Millions of hour
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I think that is a historical artifact. Ubuntu had a set of patches for freetype called infinality, developed around mid 2010, which dramatically improved font rendering. Since then, most of those improvements have been adopted and improved
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Yes, you're completely right. I remember when the Atwood article came out, and I was convinced I needed multiple monitors to be productive (I was quite junior) - it even caused me stress when I worked at places that didn't have mu
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> Also, I don't have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work. Low DPI monitors are pretty much unusable since MacOS dropped subpixel rendering - with fonts being a blurry mess. You can only r
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> Nvidia has always had super high quality Linux drivers. I assume you've never used an optimus enabled laptop on Linux? Or dealt with the horribly fragmented driver versions? Or the fact the binary blob installer likes to dump rand
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by nvarsj 6y ago
AMD has excellent open source support. They embraced the Linux community a few years ago, and we now have a high quality AMD driver mainlined in the Linux kernel. Games run very well on AMD/Linux, including Steam/Proton. It's
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> What helped we is switch from C++ to Ruby This is a great point. Some languages have terrible ergonomics - those which rely heavily on brackets which are poorly placed on a keyboard. Ergodox layouts tend to map brackets to the second
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I'm not convinced by that. I use thumb clusters now, but on a normal keyboard I would always move my whole hand and hit backspace with my right ring finger. Similarly with modifiers I would either karate chop or move my hand. Using pin
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I’m probably biased in that I primarily use Emacs and like lisps. So I find guix more approachable right out the box. Learning a new language just to use an OS is quite a big ask and part of the learning hurdle of Nix. It’s too bad that gui

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