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by pebers 9y ago
Why not? Plenty of languages don't come with one built in at all, or not one widely used in production (e.g. Python's http.server, there are a heap of other Python web servers out there).
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by pebers 9y ago
> You know how much code I’d have to write if this were C++, C#, or Java? None. They all have reusable notions of an immutable, ordered map. Java doesn't do that well at all though; its immutable maps can be used in place of mutable
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by pebers 9y ago
Is the data going to be freely available as well? It's a little unclear whether they intend to make it separately available or not.
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by pebers 9y ago
It is a straw man - you're justifying your suggested solution by comparing it to something that is already considered bad in the area. That's exactly what a straw man is.
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by pebers 9y ago
That's a bit of a straw man though - Go is significantly faster to start than either. They also mention static binaries which Node does not solve.
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by pebers 9y ago
To what degree are those being used though? Major projects (e.g. Linux, CPython) are still on ANSI C.
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by pebers 9y ago
It's not just the config; Pylint assumes it's possible to statically parse code and make some simple assumptions about things like class / module members, which only works for the most straightforward Python code. It issues c
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by pebers 9y ago
I'm disappointed - this isn't actually text-to-speech in Python, it's text-to-speech in C++ (or Objective-C in one case) with a Python wrapper over the top. An actual Python TTS engine would have been cool as an introduction
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by pebers 9y ago
If you're relying on the previous behaviour of curl on your one-time URL, you're already in trouble, because it's been printed to a terminal and the real contents are probably irretrievable.
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by pebers 9y ago
FYI Project Aon have mapped their structures, for example: https://www.projectaon.org/en/svg/lw/01fftd.svgz The differences are interesting, like which are more linear and which are more branching; some have
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by pebers 9y ago
Sure, but you could make that argument about anything you ask candidates in interviews. At some point you have to ask something that attempts to evaluate their performance in an interview timespan. On the other hand, people's perform
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by pebers 9y ago
> If they do WBI's then they probably do lots of other things which run counter to best practices. And what are the best practices for interviewing? Whiteboard interviews are employed by plenty of successful software companies (Goog
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by pebers 9y ago
The numbers being used here feel pretty contrived to me, like the article has decided its conclusion and is going to find things to support it. Especially given the pseudo-title in the URL ("americas-middle-class-is-shrinking-yet-thriv
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by pebers 9y ago
Minor nit... > It is not possible to create a Go program where two variables share the same storage location in memory. It is possible to do so, because the empty struct occupies no space. For example: s := []struct{}{ stru
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by pebers 9y ago
Yup, correct. It's not a high priority, just would be nice if it were reduced. Reducing their memory usage would be of a lot more benefit but it doesn't seem likely Jigsaw would be able to make a huge difference there.
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by pebers 9y ago
I've not been following it that closely; that was my understanding of the kind of thing they were aiming for, and which we'd like to reduce the footprint of our Java images. If the modules are too tightly coupled for it to make an
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by pebers 9y ago
I wouldn't worry, Maven Central is already that :) One of the most-touted goals is to break up the JRE libraries so you could, for example, deploy it to a headless server without any of the GUI libraries. That certainly seems like a go
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by pebers 9y ago
Princeton aren't complaining about Amazon dumping their product, they're complaining that Amazon wouldn't accept them trying to raise the price they sell to Amazon for - hence them terminating the relationship. There's n
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by pebers 9y ago
> Rust binaries are thus big, whilst you don't ship JVM binaries, you ship small bytecode. This is not borne out by practical experience. While we've not experimented much with Rust, our Java deployments are significantly large
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by pebers 9y ago
Parts of this definitely resonate with my experience; there's a reasonable amount of high-level documentation about fixing specific Android build issues, but nearly nothing describing how the system actually works. Lots of StackOverf
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by pebers 9y ago
Portability? With a little setup you can write your logic in one language with a reasonably low amount of extra work to handle different platforms. Staffing up two separate teams working in Objective-C and Java isn't ideal either.
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by pebers 9y ago
It does matter what the language / ecosystem is; learning curves are not equal across all of them. Having learnt Go a while back, I was surprised at how short a period it took to feel at least reasonably comfortable & productive
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by pebers 10y ago
You can, although it seems to be well hidden on recent Android: - Settings - Languages & input - Keyboard and input methods > Virtual keyboard - Google voice typing - "Ok Google" detection There are options i
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by pebers 10y ago
> I have a feeling their conversion rate is so low because a lot of people get another offer during their trial and immediately jump ship. Or because they're just selecting against good candidates in the first place; if you've
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by pebers 10y ago
Yup, I'm certain there would be a setting to change for the former and a solution for the latter. I was unlikely to sink time into customising it though given that I had nothing invested in learning it and the switch was easy.
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by pebers 10y ago
Mostly small things like "stickiness" when moving mouse between monitors, or the conflation of apps & windows on the launcher bar that always seemed to make it hard to switch between different windows in the same app, or launc
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by pebers 10y ago
In what way was that a promise? The Conservatives clearly intended to hold a referendum (they had campaigned on it in 2010 but weren't able to get support from the Lib Dems) so future membership was already in question - although votin
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by pebers 10y ago
Yes, but Scotland had a referendum on this relatively recently, and polls prior to that were generally similar to how they are now, so it seems pretty reasonable to see the most likely outcome as another No vote.
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by pebers 10y ago
The Queen is the head of state of Canada as well, so that situation wouldn't change: "Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state." https:/&
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by pebers 10y ago
The point is somewhat moot, because a majority of Scotland doesn't want independence: http://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-vote-i... And if it appears a referendum on independence wouldn't pa

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