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by slver 5y ago
TLDR; Varnish is very proud they use memory-mapped files for cache, instead of managing RAM and disk cache separately. That said, don't overestimate the OS ability to understand your usage of RAM. The entity with highest insight on tha
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by slver 5y ago
I propose the article branches at this point as a set of selectable tabs, each labeled over a suitable set of properties describing the reader, and then offering a matching joke when you click the tab.
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by slver 5y ago
I'm fine with that premise: it's strange. But if you think about the implications of this strangeness, it can be equally interpreted as "Linus is playing a dangerous game" or "maybe we've kind of exaggerated th
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by slver 5y ago
It got my attention, and when I realized it's yet another article about tau, it lost my attention.
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by slver 5y ago
We never did model strictly with trees IMHO. The closest I've seen is probably OOP widgets, but there it makes sense (and yes I've seen stupid stuff in those libraries, but in general they make sense).
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by slver 5y ago
> We used to love object oriented modeling with inheritance hierarchies, until the point we realized how it was so hard to have any hierarchy perfectly match a given domain. You're describing a (for the lack of a better term) "
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by slver 5y ago
We can throw all those properties in a database and we’re done. A name will never be exhaustive categorization, because we still need names to resemble "what it looks like" and "what it looks like" doesn't have to c
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by slver 5y ago
Bikeshedding
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by slver 5y ago
App store isn’t “the market”
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by slver 5y ago
You have misunderstood the meaning of basic text twice in a row.
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by slver 5y ago
Your hypothesis is missing an entire side of a two-sided coin.
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by slver 5y ago
No one uses immutables to make sure they “get the same object”. What does that even mean?
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by slver 5y ago
So it’s not fair. Why should it be though.
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by slver 5y ago
Companies would lie less in public if the legal process was based on common sense. It is not. Everything you say is used against you.
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by slver 5y ago
Do you know when your boss says “just do x” and you get frustrated by him not realizing the difficulty or implications of his request? That’s us right now. Just add dot on the side of the app. There is one bar, to start with. Not two.
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by slver 5y ago
This argument would make sense only if being less popular meant being better at security than the popular apps...
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by slver 5y ago
Do I have to explain that giving something to a few key apps is much easier to control and analyze than giving it to thousand of obscure apps? It also gives more to the users - the feature is available in apps most of them use. Also this wi
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by slver 5y ago
Two dots would look like the camera is used by two apps. That’s not the scenario. Also I doubt Apple wants to turn the UI into a Morse code sequence to be deciphered by users.
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by slver 5y ago
Two apps sit side by side. You see the camera dot. Which one is recording you?
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by slver 5y ago
When Apple tests new ground, only their apps have access to a feature. Then only partners. Then only approved developers. Etc. This gradual rollout allows refinement and reduces the odds of screwups. It looks unfair, but Apples goal isn’t t
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by slver 5y ago
Value types are essential element of design to me, but this is not widely recognized yet. To me it’d be like saying primitive types are not essential.
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by slver 5y ago
And?
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by slver 5y ago
It’s called minification, not obfuscation. The goal is in the name. Of course it does also obfuscate to a point where large chunks of code are not easily reusable. You can still easily understand small snippets if you try.
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by slver 5y ago
Every time you rebuild a record you run through its constructor. I doubt this can be optimized the same as with a plain C struct. Eventually with some more evolution. But not yet.
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by slver 5y ago
Using immutables doesn’t mean you go full Haskell. Strings are also immutable you know.
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by slver 5y ago
So you reckon we only need immutability if two or more people have to work on code. Ok.
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by slver 5y ago
Java isn’t perfect. But you underestimate the amount of software written in it. Or even things like Python and JS which are a lot more basic but have similar elements in regards to their memory model. What do you use?
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by slver 5y ago
So even you, the master of great code, wrote bad code. I guess immutability is worth something then.
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by slver 5y ago
What precisely of what I said is “false”?
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by slver 5y ago
Apparently you don’t know most immutable structures are optimized for modified cloning in ways mutables aren’t.

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