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by skj 12y ago
It's harder for a dog to start building a colony base.
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by skj 12y ago
Sure, but it might be possible to actually have the program if we don't.
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by skj 12y ago
Why do we have to bring the person back?
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by skj 12y ago
> I'm sure you know that monopolies are illegal in the USA? Not true: http://www.girardgibbs.com/antitrust-monopoly/
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by skj 12y ago
"The principle of least surprise" is, in every use I've ever seen, just an obnoxious way to say that it's not how you would have done it.
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by skj 12y ago
A good deal of it is change lists (CLs), which are sort of like pull requests on github, and issue tracking. With inbox I have all CLs that mark me as a reviewer explicitly in one bundle, all the ones in my "domain" but not with m
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by skj 12y ago
Much of that is due to issues of numerical approximation, which isn't an issue for our actual planets. Though, unlike newtonian planets, our planets can precess slightly due to general relativity thingies.
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by skj 12y ago
Here's a screenshot of some side-by-side diff action: https://fr.atlassian.com/wac/software/fisheye/overview/scree... Basically, it let's you look at the old code, or look at the new code, or s
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by skj 12y ago
Right, that's the idea. Regarding static initializers, I use them for precompiling regexps and templates, but not much more than that.
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by skj 12y ago
Worked for maps :) The same exact argument applies. The code was broken to begin with, the implementation behavior did not break anything. And, just like with map iteration ordering, it's very difficult/impossible for the compiler
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by skj 12y ago
Took a brief look at the front page. - No side-by-side diffs? Didn't see any in screen shots. - The scopes asked for seem very broad. I may be confused, but it seemed like it was asking for write access to all repositories, public and
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by skj 12y ago
It would if the whole idea wasn't based on an assumption with no evidence.
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by skj 12y ago
Well, they could do what they did with map iteration: make it happen arbitrarily different each program execution.
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by skj 12y ago
That's fair. It's certainly not my intention to astroturf.
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by skj 12y ago
We're not talking about a relational database, we're talking about a mysql-wire-compatible database. Google BigQuery has been around for a while too. Adding "disclaimer: googler" to every post I make on HN seems pretty o
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by skj 12y ago
It does not change semantics. If it does in some case, that's a bug and please report it. Edit: I see, import order can affect the order that the init()s in different packages are invoked, presumably. I stand corrected. Edit 2: But tha
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by skj 12y ago
What was the subjective opinion? "neat"? The rest was factual.
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by skj 12y ago
I certainly do. On cloud no less. The reality is that Amazon got to market several years before Google, so GCP had some catching up to do. That trend is changing, and this is one indication.
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by skj 12y ago
oh neat, AWS following GCP instead of the other way around.
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by skj 12y ago
> the one shaping up to be one of the most evil entities humanity has ever seen? quite an assertion.
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by skj 12y ago
I'm confused, where did the GP say anything about the GPL stopping him/her from using it?
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by skj 12y ago
> I'm not sure how widely Go is being chosen (over say Java) for new projects inside Google. Maybe some Googler could clue us in? Quite widely, for new projects.
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by skj 12y ago
I imagine the pro-nazi sentiment was a lot more hysterical than the anti-nazi sentiment. But, of course, I say this with no evidence.
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by skj 12y ago
Project mockingbird, therefore the NSA established Google as a front company for spying on the population?
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by skj 12y ago
All of these things are designers trying for one user-centric goal and having it backfire in ways that were not predicted. None of these things say "evil" to me even remotely.
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by skj 12y ago
It doesn't matter. (disclaimer: googler) I see it as a hubris against the idea that Google claimed to not be evil, and the fact that evil is such a poorly defined concept, and whether or not Google meets the bar depends entirely on t
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by skj 12y ago
The non-engineers don't get the linux desktops. They get mac laptops (or at least 98% of them do, some finance/business folks need excel/windows) and some hardware to dock it at their desks.
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by skj 12y ago
Launching products is also part of Google's core principles.
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by skj 12y ago
Google has an internal build system that builds everything, and it's language independent. Sort of like a distributed make.
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by skj 12y ago
20% is still encouraged, but it's hard to fit it in sometimes.

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