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by reality_czech 10y ago
That's a fair point. Go was not designed to be used to write libraries-- so much so that the language didn't even have support for dynamically loaded libraries for a very long time. (I'm not sure if they ever implemented th
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not? Wells and septic tanks don't really scale if you have a lot of people living in an area. If too many people dig wells in the same neighborhood, the water table goes dry. Not t
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I disagree that the Windows kernel is a "more modern design overall." There are certainly a few bits and pieces that are nicer. One example is I/O completion ports, which are nicer than epoll and friends. But there are als
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by reality_czech 10y ago
The whole point of Golang is that every library and every project that uses Go will support coroutines and channels. Sure you can write a toy project in a language like C that has these concepts, but your toy library will effectively be us
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by reality_czech 10y ago
In related news, water is wet. Unstructured space is terrible for working and terrible for collaboration.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
And yet, here you are on HN, commenting on a clickbait article. <trump>Sad!</trump>
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Hilarious, a document from 2001 talking about why Unicode is unsuitable to "the orient." At the end, I half expected to read that "Negroes have also proved to be most unfavorable to it."
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by reality_czech 10y ago
That's a fair point-- a naive hypothesis based only on heat dissipation won't predict the correct exponent. My criticism was basically mostly about the lack of citations in the article to all the earlier people who have thought a
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Elon Musk ends up slinging hamburgers and running a bowling alley to make ends meet? That would make a good headline.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Go goes back even further than that. They started developing it on punched cards. Then the 1960s happened and... well you had to be there. Long story short, the project never got completed until 2012.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
When you name your project something that's only one letter away from "turd," that's poor UX. They should have hired an enterprise naming consultant.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
By the way, there is a well-written and thought-provoking essay by Steven Jay Gould about the relationship between the size of animals and their shape. http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/size_and_shape.html . He mentio
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I don't think the example of metabolic rate changing with scale is as interesting as Geoffrey apparently thinks it is. Natural selection doesn't produce organisms that are "all over the map"-- for example, the mitochond
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I just spat out my coffee. Standard ML can be learned in a week by someone who doesn't know how to program? Have you ever actually tried to teach someone who doesn't know how to program? It takes months, even when using a simple
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Did you read the article? The fact that there is 1 way to do it in Go, and 100 different ways to do it in C++ (or some other older language) is a feature, not a bug.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I believe that Mother Jones is to the left of the traditional Democrat party platform. I also believe that Fox News is to the right of the traditional Republican party platform. In that way, I think the two publications are similar. Basic
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Most economic debate occurs in spherical cow land because it ignores the political realities of the debate. Sure it would be possible to have a wise, far-sighted government that invested in exactly the technologies that were needed for the
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I have never, ever, seen Mother Jones do "an investigation into things that people on the left or the Democrats wish we wouldn't." Maybe there was a time that they were more extremist than the Democrats, and that's what
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by reality_czech 10y ago
A lot of people look back on the period from 1945 to 1970 as a golden age of growth under a more left-leaning economic regime than today. It sounds like you are one them, based on your "let's organize the economy" enthusiasm
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by reality_czech 10y ago
VW deserves this. Hopefully this penalty will discourage other automakers from cheating in this way. It would also be nice if Mr. Winterkorn and the executives who were complicit in this were prosecuted. I wonder how well they have cover
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by reality_czech 10y ago
This sounds like JavaScipt: The Bad Parts.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I had to chuckle at the end. One way to compete for the stupidest and most naive employees is to offer really drawn-out vesting periods, where if you leave before the IPO, you get nothing! Considering that the average length of a job in s
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Cool, my first death threat on HN.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I'm glad that you realize that the logical conclusion of your ideas is that life is a bad thing. What is wrong is your attempt to fudge your own conclusion rather than examine your incorrect assumptions. Suffering is just the shadow c
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Your problem is that you are unable to distinguish between humans and other animals. The human tendency to anthromorphize the world is overwhleming. That's why ancient peoples had stories about Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon as sentient entit
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Now that JDK8 has made Java more expressive, and Oracle's trolling has come to nothing, I expect Kotlin and Ceylon to fade away. If you want Java, just use it, already.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
A zucker is born every minute, they say.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Maybe you're just not that desirable of a job candidate, or you're living in an area without that many jobs. It's never taken me more than 2 months to find another job, and all my jobs have paid more than 20k (except the unp
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by reality_czech 10y ago
We should get to work right away building an archive. Gotta do it now, before the shutdown hits! We can call it "Bumblr," and it will memorialize all the worthwhile commentary that was ever made on Tumblr. (This should be a meg
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by reality_czech 10y ago
In Silicon Valley, Buffer overflows you!

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