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by slimsag 8y ago
Sourcegraph dev here :) At Sourcegraph we've actually tried a lot of different syntax highlighters in the past. Syntax highlighting is actually a _really_ hard problem. Syntax highlighting for basically all editors today is provided by
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by slimsag 8y ago
> Google offers the least precise targeting compared to Facebook and Amazon. In my experience, Amazon has _incredibly poor_ targeting. Search and place an order for cat food, and the next day you'll get an email with: > Based on
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by slimsag 8y ago
Is there anybody driving a car that does not use acceleration and braking? I could understand your argument for lane control, but otherwise your argument makes zero sense. Everyone's car is controlled by software, period.
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by slimsag 8y ago
Meanwhile, Norway kills more whales than Japan on average according to the WDC[1] and proceeds to increase their quota for number of whales they can kill[2] all while running government-backed campaigns to market whale-meat as hip-and-trend
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by slimsag 8y ago
I love WebAssembly and I don't agree with GP at all here, but this prevailing holier-than-thou attitude of "You shouldn't complain or poke holes in things unless you're willing to fix them yourself" is just silly, s
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by slimsag 8y ago
Totally, that was poor wording on my part. Instead of "last-mile delivery points" I should have said "warehouses (or stores) where last-mile delivery shipments originate". By purchasing Whole Foods, they solved a large p
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by slimsag 8y ago
It's ironic that Walmart has such a huge logistics problem in this area, because IMO Walmart and Sam's Club have insanely good logistics when it comes to getting product to their actual stores. They are by far in the best position
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by slimsag 8y ago
I've been using Go for quite a long time (since before the 1.0 release); I've never heard of Iris before. It looks interesting, but appears to be an "all in" approach. I gather that folks who like Django may like this a
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by slimsag 8y ago
For those confused by this: What they are making is less of a "submarine" in the mechanized sense, and more of an enclosed, air-tight & weighted chamber which two divers can tow between them (one diver in front, one behind) wi
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by slimsag 8y ago
> I probably would have written it off as floating point shenanigans. Pretty sure anyone in actual scientific computing stays far, far away from floating point numbers and sticks to arbitrary precision ones instead.
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by slimsag 8y ago
WASM will have source map support, if it does not already. There is already support on Firefox nightly it seems: https://github.com/yurydelendik/wasm-source-map-emscripten
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by slimsag 8y ago
The backend can also be too fractured. Isn't that one of the reasons why people pitch Node.js for backend applications? "Write in one language, reduce fracturing"? I would not argue one solution fits all. I think having the a
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by slimsag 8y ago
Interesting! Thank you for mentioning that. I think that does resolve a lot of the problems I have mentioned, but it is still telling that I've tried to start two React SPAs in the past two years and didn't manage to find create-r
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by slimsag 8y ago
(disclaimer: Author of Vecty here, the toolkit being used by OP) I can see how you came to that conclusion, but I'd offer a different perspective. The problem in my opinion with the Javascript landscape is, as you said, the fact that i
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by slimsag 8y ago
(Author of the framework, Vecty, here) Also happy to answer any questions anyone has. =)
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by slimsag 8y ago
These types of people are very much attracted to get rich quick schemes, obviously. Given that cryptocurrency currently and historically has existed almost solely as a "you can get rich quick with this" scheme, I don't find i
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by slimsag 8y ago
Owls, and birds in general, also carry lots of disease. Psittacosis for example. So I don't see why that should be a consideration (unless you advocate something crazy like a complete sterilization of all non-human life?).
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by slimsag 8y ago
Yes, it does depend on your latitude. > The first qualitative change occurs at 23.5° latitude, where the noon sun on the June solstice passes directly overhead. This latitude is called the Tropic of Cancer. Farther south, in the so-calle
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by slimsag 9y ago
I think you have conflated the idea of an OS and kernel. A kernel generally handles calling conventions, device driver conventions, process conventions, memory allocation methods, etc. An OS just uses a kernel which has already decided on t
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by slimsag 9y ago
As long as it is over HTTPS and you trust the author, it shouldn't be any different than downloading and running an arbitrary binary from a website.
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by slimsag 9y ago
Wouldn't it only work for future contributions, though? i.e. wouldn't all past contributions be under the MIT license still, unless the contributor explicitly agreed?
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Ask HN: Is asking for objections enough to change license from MIT to Apache?
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[video] Nintendo's new visual programming language game (Labo / Toy-Con Garage)(youtube.com)
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Sourcegraph Server 2.6: Symbol search for 75+ languages(about.sourcegraph.com)
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by slimsag 9y ago
Yes. Not a ton of people (yet), but yes, some are.
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by slimsag 9y ago
It's also worth mentioning WASM has no GC today.
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by slimsag 9y ago
WebAssembly can be used anywhere. It is not tied to JavaScript in nature. So think of it kind of like the JVM in a way (but it's not an implementation, just a spec).
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by slimsag 9y ago
He brought a briefcase full of cash? 400 thousand dollars of cash?
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by slimsag 9y ago
That's a bit silly. Why would a meatatarian eat anything except meat? They would be an omnivore if they did. What you're really saying is that either: a. The meatatarians are actually omnivores, and just mislabeled. b. The meatata
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by slimsag 9y ago
I would also like to read your articles. Would you be able to link me to them or edit your post and include links to them?

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