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by smadge 8y ago
They were talking about reimplementing isolates and a similar multi tenant cloud computing environment in go.
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I suspect that most of programming languages in common use today started out as academic exercises that weren’t used for real-world programming and that most people didn’t enjoy programming in.
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I have JavaScript disabled by default (incidentally I also disable cookies). I do this for page load speeds, security from malicious JavaScript, disabling of most advertisements, and privacy from ad tracking networks. Best practices is to s
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by smadge 8y ago
Additionally they imply the only motivation for disabling JavaScript is to increase performance and decrease bandwidth. They conveniently don’t mention the other, arguably more prevalent motivations: to increase privacy and security.
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by smadge 8y ago
It still seems like a strange distinction. Is the implication that RMS did not arrive at his opinions through reasoning?
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I think “NIMBY”ism is bipartisan among affluent homeowners, whose have both an economic and social incentive to prevent new low cost housing in their neighborhoods.
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I gathered from the article that the main reason people were moving was because of the high cost of living. Higher taxes certainly are a part of the high cost of living. However, clearly the high cost of housing is the largest contributor t
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by smadge 8y ago
Can you document the link you claim between liberal policies and high cost of living?
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“Moreover, the dollar transfers earned HSBC hefty fees. The Senate investigation quoted an HSBC email lamenting how the bank would lose $2.6 billion in revenue from U.S. dollar accounts that it was forced to close because of the Mexico fias
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by smadge 8y ago
I suppose a procedure that responds to an http request is now called a lambda.
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> 19 microservices ... with a dev team of ... 3 perms and 2 contractors. I thought the main benefit of a microservice architecture is to break up an application into smaller services that are about the size that a small development team
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by smadge 8y ago
They are what came to mind when you said perhaps the relational algebra was not sufficient as a theoretical model of databases.
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by smadge 8y ago
What do you think of perhaps a logical (e.g. Prolog or Datadog) model for databases?
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by smadge 8y ago
If the author’s intention was to show the dubious quality of research in these fields, wouldn’t a better approach have been to select high impact articles from prestigious journals in the fields which they believed exemplified the problem,
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An example that comes up often for me are EDSLs for database queries. I do see the value of them, but on the other hand it causes you to move away from a “lingua Franca” of database querying to a programming environment specific one. What p
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I haven’t looked closely at game engines. Is it possible to write the game at the level of abstraction you want, then write a translation layer into various game engines? Or do these game engines tend to creep into all of your code, prevent
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by smadge 8y ago
I think it will more likely come when the true cost of high energy consumption is factored into our decisions, and people are forced to trade off high availability for low power consumption.
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by smadge 8y ago
I agree, but I think it still takes some coding self-discipline to write code with a functional core and stateful shell in Haskell. There’s little stopping you from having every return type wrapped in the IO monad. It’s not any more unnatur
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by smadge 8y ago
I don’t really understand this argument, because there already are lies published on the internet. What difference does it make if those lies are published in a standardized machine readable format or not?
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Did you mean to write “there is no effective procedure to determine whether an arbitrary formula follows from those axioms?” A proof is exactly how we demonstrate that a formula follows from the axioms.
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And more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, billions of dollars of equipment, including thousands of Hummers and MRAPs were scrapped or donated to local allied security forces as the cost of shipping them back the United States was prohibiti
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I’m not sure about it actually being used in compilers. However as I understand it the simply typed lambda calculus does not support recursive functions. If you want a typed functional language you have to introduce as a primitive a recursi
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by smadge 8y ago
I do see your point, but you are comparing two very different things. HTTP is a protocol, JSON is a data format. In a lot of ways HTTP is highly composable because along with hypertext media types like HTML or JSON-LD it allows for composit
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by smadge 8y ago
It is strange for you to think of culture as a commodity to be traded on the global marketplace. British steel and Chinese steel might be effectively indistinguishable, but the same can not be said of British media/values and Chinese m
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by smadge 8y ago
Culture is not a commodity. Culture is also not simply entertainment. Stories are vehicles for a society's values and values between societies are different. So stories are not exchangeable in the way that you could exchange some steel
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by smadge 8y ago
Here is a list of Unikernel projects, with their associated languages: http://unikernel.org/projects/
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You should write an article titled “For Fun and Profit Considered Harmful.”
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Canonically, the Prisoners Dilema is a game with one round and each player has no idea what strategy the other player will employ; the one round is taken simultaneously. In this version, it doesn’t make sense to say “one prisoner defecting
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by smadge 8y ago
The rule of thumb I said allows you to have non political discourse with strangers over the internet, and have political discourse with strangers face to face.
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Don’t have political discourse except with people you personally know, or face to face.

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