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by personZ 12y ago
The Go designers clearly had full awareness of every language feature available in alternatives. They consciously and intentionally made the choices they did. This is obvious, of course, but often it is stated as if they came out of a cave,
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by personZ 12y ago
EC2 is generally very expensive for CPU. RAM and storage are okay but CPU is crazy. I'm leaning towards becoming an EC2 apologist on here, but just running quick benchmarks on a t2.micro versus both the $5 and $10 Droplets. sysbench
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by personZ 12y ago
The value proposition of these instance types seems to be entirely focused on CPU burst performance, with no local storage, no EBS optimization (though there are provisioned IOPS), and only moderate network performance that is shared. Relat
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by personZ 12y ago
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com... It is the onion, and is flippant, but as a general belief it touches upon a basic truth -- everyone would love if everyone else used public transit, leavi
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by personZ 12y ago
How do you make a custom, generic data structure without syntax overhead? In real-world code, the need for generic data structures is shockingly uncommon. It really is. This requirement exaggeration comes about by people acting as languag
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by personZ 12y ago
Go is absolutely fantastic at pragmatic, practical concurrency. In most real-world cases, that does not include a strong immutability base, for instance. Here's the thing about the "Go sucks because Haskell is the best language
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by personZ 12y ago
We've seen this same article re-written countless ways. Seriously, this is (intentionally or not) a rewording of every existing criticism of Go, by people who complain that it isn't a language that it isn't. No, Go's sol
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by personZ 12y ago
We know Apple is producing larger phones. There is zero mystery about that. It is entirely relevant that the same pundits who now have a lot to say about wearables also got larger smartphones entirely wrong. And no, the mini is not releva
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and companies are scrambling to get out and take as much share as they can From a pro-Apple perspective, it undoubtedly looks this way, confirmed when every Apple follower brings up Apple in the context of competitive product. From a neut
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by personZ 12y ago
Indeed. IOPS has been the achilles head of magnetic disks for time eternal. But ultimately calling these "myths" is somewhat absurd. Everything is relative. Relative to a magnetic hard drive, main memory offers impossibly fast ran
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by personZ 12y ago
don't have any fear of piracy from being installed from another source Even if they're currently fully unmonetized, many such apps exist on the Play store because they can be updated at any time to include in app purchases, etc.
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by personZ 12y ago
"Bad code" is a completely subjective measure which everyone is sure they will know when they see it, but few agree on the actual definition. Extreme examples will be floated, but in practice what people consider "bad code&qu
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by personZ 12y ago
The only change is that the lowest end model that previously did not have a rear camera now includes the same rear camera that the higher end models have had for two years. The iPod Touch camera is an okay camera, but it has significantly m
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by personZ 12y ago
The iPod touch is the perfect camera for someone who may not want the additional functionality or cost of the iPhone, yet wants to take great photos The photo quality from the iPod is dramatically worse than the iPhone. The iPod Touch isn
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by personZ 12y ago
Ignorance and the defense of the same is the rotting meat of Hacker News. This whole discussion is absolutely rife with it.
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by personZ 12y ago
and you seem to be saying If you have given an untrusted third party site the credentials that you use on other sites, that meat is complete fetid. It is now deadly. This whole discussion is arguing about what to do once the meat is rotte
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by personZ 12y ago
The vast majority of people who share passwords between sites experience no repercussions from their choice. More accurately, they have no awareness of the reprecussions from their choice. Yet endlessly on HN we hear stories of mysterious
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by personZ 12y ago
However, you seem to be totally missing the point made in the previous post, namely that people are, on the whole, pretty dumb. The whole discussion revolves around a fundamental principal that is simply broken to begin with, akin to &quo
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by personZ 12y ago
You can't say "there's no excusing it" and "cause of their own demise". Yes, you absolutely can and should say that. This isn't human nature, but is simply accepted and defended behavior that gets caught
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You'd be giving the attacker the keys to the kingdom. No, the people who use a common password gave out the keys. There is simply no excusing it. The apologism for it has to stop. NEVER use the same password across multiple services.
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by personZ 12y ago
With Glass though, who knows if you are recording or not? Without Glass, who knows if you are recording or not. The hysterics (largely driven through anti-Google rhetoric, fwiw. People like Gruber are on the front-lines of anti-Glass hate
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by personZ 12y ago
While others used their country code, he might have simply differed in his interpretation of "location". Seems pretty ignorable. Or he's a separatist in which case, meh, whatever. Might as well have some outlet for it, given
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by personZ 12y ago
While cbeach's comment that you replied to is trollish nonsense, in response to your reply- You don't use the camera any more, you use "google camera". You don't even use the keyboard any more, you use "google
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by personZ 12y ago
Walmart's case was entirely an elaborate tax dodge. They had no inside information (insurance companies know far more about the probable lifespan of Walmart's employees than Walmart does), and the scheme was entirely predicated on
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To do something off hours implies a self-esteem problem? That is absurd. People do stuff off hours in return for something, which might be compensatory "time off", additional pay or bonuses, etc.
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8AM EDT is 5AM PDT, which is where web tech can be found in the United States. I'm not sure if you're just being sarcastic, but talent in North America isn't limited to the Pacific Timezone, and such a claim borders on hila
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>But absent meaningful regulation around the practice, it grew unchecked, and soon companies were taking out policies on many poorly paid employees like janitors, then reaping millions in profit when they died. Most of the article is abo
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gmail completely upset the mail game, offering a product that was so outrageous that most took it as an April fools joke. This...looks like a registrar + nameservers, and doesn't seem to really differentiate itself in any compelling wa
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They can see every DNS lookup if you use their nameservers.
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by personZ 12y ago
http://www.lightningmaps.org/extra/coverage?lang=en As mentioned by mnw, coverage is actually pretty sparse in North America (at least relative to Europe, presumably because it's a German project?). The continent

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