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by seeekr 9y ago
A few more now! :)
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by seeekr 9y ago
heads up: On page 15 it feels like the questions are not written from a user-centric point of view any more, while the previous ones were excellent. "The Rust project" has an unclear or at least less significant meaning to me as a
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by seeekr 9y ago
I think he implied a "/s" there. ;)
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by seeekr 10y ago
Fair enough. I've been absent from the Java ecosystem for quite a while, so have no opinion or anecdata to share. It's good to hear though that there are multiple, sane options available to get stuff done.
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by seeekr 10y ago
I think all he's saying is that there are jobs that you can solve either with JEE & XML or with Kotlin, and that for those choosing Kotlin is often the more efficient thing to do.
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by seeekr 10y ago
How was it economically viable to, iiuc, basically include computational power comparable to that of a full console, inside every single game cartridge? That sounds ludicrous! (Starfox on SNES was an excellent game, enjoyed it very much!)
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by seeekr 10y ago
The Episode 2 video with learnfun/playfun is really good, too [0]. Tom7 is a fun guy. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJHR9Ovszs
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by seeekr 10y ago
What motivation does he have right now to do all the things he does? So he got about $100M from the sale of Paypal a while back. He could have easily coasted on that and led an easy life and never have to work a day any more. Why didn'
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by seeekr 10y ago
In early 2016 Docker acquired the startup building MirageOS, a unikernel system. And from how Solomon describes what you can do with Moby, it very much sounds like the unikernel idea at work.
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by seeekr 10y ago
Somewhat OT, but from the second paragraph in that page you linked... > Taylor was known for his high-level vision and invention of the "any" key: "The Internet is not about technology; it's about communication and ch
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by seeekr 10y ago
So are these techniques only about reducing code size and therefore better utilization of instruction cache? Or is there some penalty to unconditional jumps that may be avoided using such techniques?
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by seeekr 10y ago
Wouldn't The Right Way (TM) be to have a daemon running on the cluster that's watching either your nodes (if you want to allow access from all your nodes) or specific pods and then call your PostgreSQL provider's API to let i
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by seeekr 10y ago
Why does Docker Inc have to beat Red Hat? It's a big, growing market, enough cake for everyone?
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by seeekr 10y ago
In other words, you can't exclude yourself from "altruism" while expecting it to actually accomplish what you intend for it to accomplish. If you exclude yourself, you'll just create a situation where others have to come
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by seeekr 10y ago
... or the downstream program could ask the upstream one (or get automatically along with the stream) about meta-data/type information for the stream it is being passed, and then it could benefit fully from already-known information. T
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by seeekr 10y ago
... and soon the trend'll be 1 car company owned by a tech company. Wondering when the first tech companies are going to start buying car companies -- in the tried and true spirit of tech (software) eating the world.
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by seeekr 10y ago
Upvoted. Despite the sibling comment (+ thread) explaining quite well (thank you) about "dread" and "holy dread", that's not something everyone is knowledgeable about, and as such the title can appear to be "ba
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by seeekr 10y ago
> And yet it didn't work out well for the company that funded it. I get that point. We're all interested in building great and successful companies on here, so of course it's a bummer when there is success from one perspec
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by seeekr 10y ago
As someone who doesn't know a whole lot about Bell Labs, its history, how it worked, etc: Why and how did it produce so much great research output? What was different or special about Bell Labs? Answers as well as pointers to other mat
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by seeekr 10y ago
Have been using it for a long time inside a Chrome extension. The use case was to keep user's preferences and data/history stored on both client and server and in sync with each other easily and PouchDB accomplished that task supe
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by seeekr 10y ago
Not GP, but iiuc he is just stating: In order to prevent these kinds of race conditions you can just use any regular locking mechanism. (As you could with many other cases where you'd like to introduce atomicity manually.)
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by seeekr 10y ago
Correction for the second link, even though I assume most everyone will spot the typo: https://coreos.com/community/
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by seeekr 10y ago
He's obviously a troll or something. Keep up the good work, Steve! Rust's community is one of the most amazing and friendliest I've ever seen anywhere on the internet, and it seems to me that your intent, effort and presence
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by seeekr 10y ago
Unexpected to find that in my dnsimple DNS control panel -- but oh so fun! Party paws! :D
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DNSound: What does your domain sound like?(dnsimple.com)
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by seeekr 10y ago
RE: "Not sure why they stick so closely with AWS on terminology though" Makes sense from a user familiarity perspective -- AWS is what most cloud users are familiar with, and describing things in terms that are most likely to be u
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by seeekr 10y ago
Why is Paypal terrible? (Honest question, I find it to be a great service. Am not US-based, if that matters.)
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by seeekr 10y ago
They could just offer a simple subscription (yearly or monthly) with user-chosen price tag, aka recurring donation. Call it "individual sponsorship", make a pretty login window and a little dashboard once logged in, that's it
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by seeekr 10y ago
Rust can compile to wasm (and asm.js) as well via emscripten. More info here: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust...
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by seeekr 10y ago
I think the GP wanted to know: How do you finance development like this? As in, it seems like a lot of work, how do you sustain yourselves financially while noone is (yet) paying for using the fruit of the work?

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