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by rwj 13y ago
This would work as long as the browser was in a dev mode. Usability would suffer if normal users had to deal with errors in the pages that they visit.
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by rwj 13y ago
The tether actually extends out past geosynchronous orbit. The section below geosynchronous orbit want to fall to earth, and the section above wants to fly away. Because of this, the tether is under tension.
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If two parties disagree, then one side (or both) must be wrong. Someone has made a mistake (or been fooled...). This doesn't justify becoming arrogant, but trying to identify errors in the reasoning of one or both parties is certainl
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by rwj 13y ago
Just because some people are using C++ in projects where another language would be better, it does not follow all projects using C++ would be in another language. I have some projects I would hate to do in C++, but I also have projects I
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by rwj 13y ago
Actually, I think this is the genius of Go. It has the a lot of the expressiveness of Python, but the static typing of C++. This makes it useful in projects that don't require the performance/sharp edges of C++, but that do requ
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by rwj 13y ago
Ignosticism: The position that people beliefs about are god are not even wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignostic
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by rwj 13y ago
People will stop paying attention to TIOBE when there is a better metric. Most HN readers are probably aware of TIOBE's limitations, but it is better than nothing.
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Logical fallacies can be misused. They can be applied incorrectly, or used to shut down discussion. I therefore sympathise with the point that the OP is trying to make. However, does it then follow that logical errors should be given a p
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by rwj 13y ago
With this approach, you could pull a lot of state out of the structure, and move it into variables local to the goroutine. It is interesting how this approach moves Go a lot closer to Erlang-style actors.
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In this case, I believe it means all benefit and no disadvantage.
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Real world assets are not immune to fluctuations in value either. The idea that gold or some other physical asset has a fixed intrinsic value is an unfounded opinion. As an example, in the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced a large
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In praise of complexity(sinofabit.tumblr.com)
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Conciseness was not a goal. Simplicity and regularity were. IN this case, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Demanding that users are available to provide maintenance and feature improvement is a recipe for far fewer projects being released.
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While I agree that implementations can be fast or slow, it does not completely eliminate the effect of the language. At minimum, different languages require different levels of effort to reach their optimum. So, while a language can be hu
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by rwj 14y ago
I've found Go to be brilliant in some areas, but very irritating in others. I've lost the link to the talk where Rob Pike describes the reasoning behind the language, but once you understand that they are optimizing for large code bases in
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by rwj 14y ago
I'm aware of the distinction. However, part of the goal of SPDY is to avoid round-trip by pre-emptively sending resources. So the question still remains, why not use some type of archive format to send the HTML along with the images and o
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I may be mistaken, but since everything in SPDY happens over a secure connection, isn't caching already broken? It seams to me that any approach to combining resources to minimize round-tripping will involve a trade-off against the granula
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I wonder why no one has defined a multi-part message format. The server would deliver a single file, which would start with the HTML and be followed by images and other assets. This approach should play nice with all the proxies (which wo
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by rwj 14y ago
I enjoyed this article. Pike is an advocate for the language, but he openly discusses the trade-offs that were addressed by the language. Too often, the downsides to a language/technology are ignored, leading to technically boring talks.
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Despite the comparisons to C and C++, Go is not really a replacement for either of those languages. Each supports features that are not found in Go, and that are necessary for certain applications. Go is more of a replacement for Python, R
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by rwj 14y ago
I definitely agree with your comment about interfaces. This appears to be a concept that could be transplanted to C++, and would help quite a bit. Often in C++, people rely on template (compile-time polymorphism) because it is not possibl
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by rwj 14y ago
Go is not a replacement for C. As many people have said, Go is not suitable for most purposes where C would currently be the best choice. Go is a replacement for Python, Ruby, etc. Garbage collection, duck typing, an excellent library. G
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by rwj 14y ago
While garbage collection is useful, people often forget that memory is only one resource that needs to be managed. File handles, database connections, sockets, etc. also need to be "deallocated". RAII may require programmer effort, but it
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by rwj 15y ago
Is there plans to support sharing you keys between devices?
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I am a big fan of Go, but he was certainly not describing this language. A lot the items on the wishlist were math and sciences items (arbitrary precision int, float, rational number; vectors, matrices; units). These are not in the langua
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by rwj 15y ago
Even if many people do not need to know more philosophy, they certainly need more practice in philosophy. Philosophy teaches people to think logically, to form rational arguments, to carefully define their terms. Thinking clearly is an
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I was surprised to hear about Dart. A closer look at Google's other new language (Go), shows a statically typed, compiled language that can be safely sand-boxed. For example, look at how Google has included Go in AppEngine. Additionally,
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An inflection point is where the curvature (second derivative) changes sign. For example, it is where a function changes from concave to convex. It can apply both ways.
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Go actually does provide a mechanism similar to exceptions. The functionality is provided by the functions panic, defer, and recover. Idiomatic Go does not like panics (i.e. exceptions) to escape API boundaries, but otherwise you are just

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