rantanplan

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by rantanplan 8y ago
You checked in the wrong place then.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
The problem is which of the billion _Inner worlds_ ideas to accept. I mean, isn't religion/spirituality good enough for you? Why should we pollute science with such stuff? If you have an opinion or idea that isn't reproducibl
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Why are you spreading such nonsense?
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> I have no trouble at all accepting this That's not how science works. If something is proven and reproducible via the scientific method, it must work(used to make verifiable predictions) whether you accept it or not. Let's ne
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> normal syntax. Right. Ok we have a problem with definitions. No this is obviously not normal syntax. Unless we take it to mean "whatever new syntax python introduces is normal syntax, since it supports it!", which is tautolog
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> Go can make language (syntax) changes to improve this. Python has been very smart, and the type system is implemented as normal objects using the normal syntax I will leave this tidbit here: i, found = 0, False # type: int, bool In any
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Mypy's various bugs are just indicative of how much of a band-aid it is. If you truly believe that a dynamic language like python can have type safety, then imagine what a language like Go can achieve. Python already has deviated too m
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Type safety of Go is leaps and bounds better than python's will ever be, with mypy or not.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
5x(probably more) reduction on server costs because of less memory/cpu requirements, if you choose Go for example.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Because python can't do anything else at this point. It can't be faster. It can't consume less memory. It can't stay still. So they add auxiliary features. No matter how much they downvote you, you're right. For a n
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Was perl ever the language of choice for distributed services or database systems? Did I miss that part of history?
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Could you elaborate a bit?
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> You don't need this for a page to serve a socially useful purpose. You don't need JS to "serve a socially useful purpose" most of the time, as well. As I said, it seems we decided that everything needs to feel like
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by rantanplan 8y ago
EDIT: The HN title changed so I don't know if this comment is relevant anymore. That sounds like saying "living is the leading cause of death". I mean, I don't particularly like JS, but it seems like we decided long ago
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by rantanplan 8y ago
We do live inside a simulation... of particles, called... the Universe.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Out of 100 sites in flash, maybe 2 were the gems you describe. The remaining 98 were utter crap that should die in a fire. The people who designed these gems would probably be able to design good sites no matter what tools they had at thei
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by rantanplan 8y ago
"zero cost abstractions" usually means you don't pay a performance penalty for abstractions you do not use.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Sure. I'm all for options and pluralism. I am just that crazy person that believes that default options should err on the safety/integrity/consistency side. I also love abstractions, but abstractions can't change their u
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by rantanplan 8y ago
I have no clue what you're talking about. That's an honest statement, not trying to be confrontational. If you have constraints that can be enforced by the DB, you simply use the DB's constraints, because the DB guarantees th
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by rantanplan 8y ago
I've read about their reasons, I just didn't want to open a discussion about it :D Deciding to implement constraints on the application/business layer is something that github can probably do, in the same vein that Facebook c
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by rantanplan 8y ago
WTF! Thanks for that tidbit, I have no XP with Rails, but I would never imagine they do something so atrocious.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
What does "by default" mean? If you want to have referential integrity there's no other choice. Otherwise you create tables that have no relation to each other. No one stops you from doing this, but then you probably don&#x27
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by rantanplan 8y ago
gh-ost is hardly useful for anyone outside of github. It's predicated on the fact that you don't use foreign keys. Now why would someone use MySQL without FKs... is beyond me, but I'm sure they have their reasons. MySQL has t
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by rantanplan 8y ago
"Serverless" means you don't have to manage the servers or the infrastructure. AWS(or whoever) abstracts this part for you. And yes, in some sense, they do abstract this away for you, but then you just have different kind o
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by rantanplan 8y ago
OK, thanks for clarifying, I obviously misread your comment.
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by rantanplan 8y ago
I don't think you understood what I took issue with in your post. You said: > Passing peer review is something used as a substitute for reproducibility And what I'm saying is "No, it's not". Reproducibility of th
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by rantanplan 8y ago
From wikipedia: 1. Define a question 2. Gather information and resources (observe) 3. Form an explanatory hypothesis 4. Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data in a reproducible manner 5. Analyze the data 6. In
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> Passing peer review is something used as a substitute for reproducibility Wow, pretty low bar for science. You can have peer review for the actual results and what they mean, as well as them being reproducible. > The procedure (sc
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by rantanplan 8y ago
> I think therefore that SQL database technologies have to adapt to the serverless paradigm rather than dismissing serverless Empty statement that means nothing. SQL/RDBMS is backed by computer science and robust engineering example
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by rantanplan 8y ago
Are you sure the problem is not Acrobat Reader? I haven't used it for more than 10 years but I remember it being slow. Okular(provided by KDE), for example, is blazingly fast. Or at least, I haven't noticed any slowness.

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