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by singular 15y ago
yeah I noticed him on the team. The core team has some amazing people on it, including famous people Rob Pike (Bell Labs unix/plan 9 guy) and Brad. I think that's a good sign that google are quite ambitious about the language :)
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by singular 15y ago
go already targets arm, android can't be too far away.
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by singular 15y ago
Am with the siblings - disagree very much. A very nice thing about go is that it isn't afraid to say 'no' to features, nor is it afraid to enforce conventions to encourage consistency. I bet the coding standard discipline at google has some
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by singular 15y ago
'tis possible, though judging by googling around on this I am not the only one having trouble downloading xcode in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe they should put it out as a torrent + simply seed the thing? Seems a perfect fit, given th
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by singular 15y ago
I went to Imperial (did CivEng) and I can confirm this, lecturers even joked about it. At one point the people in the class who were actually going to go into engineering were asked to raise their hands - around 1/3 did. To digress briefly,
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by singular 15y ago
Am using my ISP's standard DNS. It's fine with other downloads... margh!
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by singular 15y ago
For those who are interested, I just blogged about the patch I made[1] :) [1]: http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2011/05/04/Forward-Referenced-Rec...
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by singular 15y ago
plus you don't always get anywhere near capacity. I could never get above about 100k/s (am based in the UK which might have an impact).
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by singular 15y ago
Err, except when the server throttles the download to 60-100 k/s. Took me 18 damn hours, not to mention that it failed several times before I could get it all. It's ridiculous. N.B. - for those having problems, I used this[1] script to down
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by singular 15y ago
I absolutely felt the same, but basically made myself take a look at the go[1] issue tracker[2], before just committing to working on a bug. Once I got one fixed, it was an amazing feeling - I can contribute to this project that is run by
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by singular 15y ago
Sweet - maybe the author made a bit more progress than I did :-) I ought to check it out, I've not taken a look at the project for >1yr.
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by singular 15y ago
In terms of the language stuff I think we're safe - Anders Hejlsberg [1] - is a great steward of the language and the C# team seems very interested in sensibly adding new components to the language, whether or not Gu is still around to invo
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by singular 15y ago
rant warning... I tried racket but just could not get namespaces to work, and the tool I was using, ometa for scheme[1] did not want to work properly without them. I spent hours, asked on the chat, read the documentation, etc. but just
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by singular 15y ago
Very nice work. I've been getting irritated with emacs'... rough edges a lot lately and am tempted to scratch my own itch with an emacs slant :-)
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by singular 15y ago
Did you find the small team size a pleasant experience? Is it a case of many small teams adding up to a lot of people, or genuinely few small teams?
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by singular 15y ago
EDIT: Actually, yes, ahem , I see - if e.NewItem is actually null you're going to get confused between what the problem actually is here, and that might not be repro. Perhaps I posted a little too soon... but assuming you check for that se
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by singular 15y ago
There are subtleties to it too - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/10/08/what-... :-)
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by singular 15y ago
Downvoted on HN for extolling the joy of pursuing what you love even in the face of disagreement - a certain irony there, I think!! :-)
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by singular 15y ago
Before I start I'll address the first point - yes, everything has good and bad sides, but that includes things/people you love. I doubt Beethoven always loved composing, or Einstein always loved doing science - it's a net thing, and when
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by singular 15y ago
It's the 'frozen without explanation' aspect I don't like. I didn't realise that this was a legitimate ToS violation, but agreed, they should have at least warned them first. I suspect that evil people ruin it for everyone, money is just to
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by singular 15y ago
This is vastly disturbing. Surely there is a gap in the market here for a payment processor that doesn't do shit like this? Are there any startups in this area? Or is this just an inevitable result of working with money (having to be very
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by singular 15y ago
It was indeed an (uncited) quote from a wikipedia article which is hardly the same as concrete evidence :-) Regardless, it is certainly the case that we have evolved to be able to sit comfortably and take weight off our legs - that, I think
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by singular 15y ago
Well, not surprising that was down-voted, but seriously - if somebody contends that we're 'not designed for X', yet we have actually evolved to be able to do X, I think it's reasonable to point that out, even if the fact is that we do too
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by singular 15y ago
I don't mean to sound facetious, but aren't we designed to also sit as well as stand/walk/run? That's what the buttocks have evolved for, after all:- "Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to be taken off the feet while sitting" [1] O
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by singular 15y ago
Sigh. No disrespect intended, but you could spend the rest of your life arguing this stuff, just like any other conspiracy theory. But I'll bite this once so it doesn't look like I'm 'ignoring' your 'evidence'. I won't respond beyond this
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by singular 15y ago
To be honest, if he believes that 'proofs are lacking on both sides' then I've just lost quite a significant amount of respect for the man. If the 'truthers' are correct then many hundreds, if not thousands, of people decided to conspire to
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by singular 15y ago
Excellent, this should be great practice for interview-type algo problems and just applied algo problem solving in general. Good timing, as I am making my nth attempt at going through an algo book and getting this shit down. :-)
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by singular 15y ago
Perfect. The two together act to provide theory + practice (especially cool that PLCfSD uses F# :-) What other resources have you found, and how do they compare? Have you read the Dragon Book? I hear it isn't actually all that wonderful in
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by singular 15y ago
Very nice indeed, but I think a lot of the appeal with grep/sed/awk/wc/etc. is a. they are (somewhat, with irritating differences in some cases) cross-platform and available in every unix-y environment and b. people are simply very used to
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by singular 15y ago
Cool, I'm glad you see my point :-) - it's just that there seems to be almost a meme going round, not just on hn, that 'hey this stuff just doesn't matter because the customer doesn't care' which seems fallacious to me (see other posts for

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