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by sigmaml 12y ago
> The root problem is not that people are undisciplined, but that the problem is undefined. > If and when you find a real business idea then you can rewrite the code with the knowledge of what it needs to be genuinely useful. I have s
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> but you're also replacing the engine in flight! Could you elaborate that, using a mainstream example, please? > Also the specs on the parts are kind of spotty. ... Are you referring to the moving parts of the Internet itself? &
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> I shouldn't have to sit around and wait for a 40GB copy to move from one network location to another before I can start another bit of data movement. KDE and Dolphin send the transfer into the background immediately. You can trac
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by sigmaml 12y ago
You should, however, note that Go does not have inheritance. That single difference reduces the `crazy stuff' by an order of magnitude. In addition, not having inheritance also means that you do not need to take variance into account
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by sigmaml 12y ago
I documented a real-life experience here: http://oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.in/2014/01/another-go-at-go-... . Read the requirement, elaborate a little more by me in some of the comments, and see how the combinations
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> I'm having trouble thinking of a language toolkit that has dependency management built by the core team. Rust + Cargo.
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> ... a sense of hope that life goes beyond a single life span. That is one of the conjectures propounded by the Upanishads.
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by sigmaml 12y ago
I am an Indian, and have always lived in India. And, in several parts of India too! The problem of caste is certainly visible in multiple aspects of Indian life. However, what you say above is no longer true, even at the level of most vil
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> "I cannot say that getting upset over people using jokey memes to communicate ideas (Haskell is more likely to be correct after a successful type-check than other langs) is likely to do you much good." You have, evidently, ta
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by sigmaml 12y ago
I have worked on at least three very large projects that required cross-platform and cross-language compatibility. In all cases, the high-level view is similar to what you wrote above. In all cases, though, the devil was certainly in the d
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by sigmaml 12y ago
You'd have to acknowledge that it is subjective, though. After using OS X for a few years, I switched back to Kubuntu. The driver was that form was eclipsing function. It was becoming increasingly difficult to make OS X function `my
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by sigmaml 12y ago
Hmm ... what we mean by `exactness' - in physics, for instance - has been changing ever since the advent of quantum mechanics about a hundred years ago. There are two points to consider: (a) the principle underlying the hypothesis is s
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by sigmaml 12y ago
And, in the same breath, could you also tell me which sites/applications you develop? That will help me avoid them! This is precisely the kind of developer arrogance that I advise against in my sessions. Catering to a segment of popu
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by sigmaml 12y ago
Should we conclude that complaining about Google products is quite acceptable on HN, but liking them is not? The downvotes given to parent are hard to understand otherwise.
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> More and more developers are stepping back and realising that as a programming paradigm, OO is actually pretty shit. It is sad to see such strongly-worded blanket statements. The author generalises his experiences with Java to entire
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> The key selling point of functional languages is not lambdas, but immutable state and referential transparency. Not everyone agrees, evidently! In his influential paper, Hughes argues that higher-order functions and laziness are key t
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by sigmaml 12y ago
> OOP is too verbose by it's essence compared to closures. Could you comment on Smalltalk's blocks?
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I heard a variant thereof. ``Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Science is what I'm doing once I figure that out!"
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by sigmaml 13y ago
My experience is rather different. I travel to rural areas in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh every month. The connection quality is as poor as its availability is flaky. I find that GMail, Google Drive and the Google search page
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by sigmaml 13y ago
Two points. 1. Google fought then-giants such as AltaVista, Excite and Yahoo in the process of establishing itself as the leader in search space. The incumbents had economies of scale and (relatively) massive amounts of data to crunch thro
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by sigmaml 13y ago
I read HN as much for news links as for the ensuing intelligent discussion and pointers. Should you take them away, to me, the appeal of HN drops significantly.
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by sigmaml 13y ago
It depends a lot on the service that you provide. I provide compute services. Most of my servers are CPU-bound most of the time.
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On Effects (programming languages)(oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.in)
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by sigmaml 13y ago
It is very inconvenient on a large page like this, should you need to quickly move up/down to read a related comment. If you know it, dragging the scrollbar, on the other hand, is quick to land you in the approximate target region.
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by sigmaml 13y ago
It is not clear what you refer to when you say ``buy". By the way, you have drifted away from discussing the technological aspects of the Web. This line of argument doesn't help establish why HTML/JavaScript/CSS are bet
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That is ELISA (with an `S'), if I understand what you mean correctly.
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I worked on a similar project; the US consultant insisted that each method should be less than 25 lines. The code involved several decision trees. This rigid limit made the code quite inconvenient to follow and enhance. After much sweat
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I came across AGG very recently. Yes, several parts of the code are designed and implemented very well. Unfortunate that Maxim died.
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Author of the blog post here. Thank you all for your insightful comments and critiques. A few points. -> Several people have suggested that JVM's mature GC may be using other cores, resulting in the > 370% CPU utilisation. I a
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Author of the blog post here. Some of the comments here suggest that I was probably new to Go. Not quite. I was reasonably active in the Go community (and on golang-nuts) in the first two years of Go's public life. Also, when discu

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