smosher

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by smosher 14y ago
> And the x86, as a platform, does? "It's complicated." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105834/does-the-jvm-preve...
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by smosher 14y ago
Here. And I find all this hilarious.
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by smosher 14y ago
> Hopefully it crashes, stables out and then gains use as a currency rather than an investment. That's impossible. The only low stable price is $0 which is useless as a currency. Only when its user base is no longer growing and there is
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by smosher 14y ago
FWIW I have seen a lot more Debian support from hosting companies than Ubuntu support. Either way it's overwhelmingly RedHat. Honestly though, problems surrounding "newer packages" is the reason #1 I avoid Ubuntu. I think the problem I had
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by smosher 14y ago
You could have run with a one-point basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic#One-point_ba...
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by smosher 14y ago
I'll believe it when I see it working. Most likely they will still find a way to make it next to useless, forcing people to keep writing/targeting JavaScript. FYI, you're talking to them right now. Patrick Walton is a Moz employee.
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by smosher 14y ago
I don't find testing as a solution very convincing, it's just the same problem all over again: more code which may ran yet fail to live up to expectations. It's a tool, but static checks are better for things that can be statically checked.
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by smosher 14y ago
You can write equivalent programs in C++, but if you learned Rust well I am not sure you'd want to. The parallelism shown is still fairly coarse grained and amenable to traditional techniques. [...] If the redesign was using C/C++, they'd
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by smosher 14y ago
This story lacks critical thinking. The price couldn't be anything other than volatile right now for the simple reason that it is bigger than a breadbox, but smaller than a house: It has two basic attractors, one is $0—extinction. If you ta
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by smosher 14y ago
Not to mention commas.
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by smosher 14y ago
I think Julia is a pretty good bet. Its target audience seems to love it. I've got too much on my plate right now to put the hours in on it. Sure, you have to manage risks, but why not put insignificant but necessary projects on it? Just p
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by smosher 14y ago
I don't think I've actually tried that, except on my netbook (conclusion: don't try to build Rust on a netbook.) I have made a habit of typing supplying `-j 8` to make. Note: if it hasn't been fixed yet, you'll need to fetch the bootstrap c
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by smosher 14y ago
Ouch. Did you run the build with multiple jobs? (Parallel builds have been a bit messed up because of fetching the bootstrap, but you can coax it into working.)
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by smosher 14y ago
Is that commentary on Windows or on the Liberation fonts? (I'm cool either way.)
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by smosher 14y ago
A clang build was recently taken out of that process, though I haven't tried building since then.
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by smosher 14y ago
very very few developers will seriously consider writing a production game for the browser Zynga, PopCap, Team Meat and a few others come to mind. If you meant 3D "AAA" titles, that just became reasonable a few weeks ago so you'll have to
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by smosher 14y ago
Current asm.js is just for C/C++. I think that's a dangerous way of putting it. Asm.js is just a spec and can (and ought to) be emitted by things other than Emscripten.
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by smosher 14y ago
You forgot to bring up his throne of skulls.
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by smosher 14y ago
This is total disregard for that the rest of the world considers valuable to them. Yes and no. Where it's true, sure, arrogant jerks. But the Lisp weenies have realized they know something the rest of the world doesn't. They think it's im
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by smosher 14y ago
In fact, the Go team explicitly tells you not to do that: "do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating." Sadly, that doesn't mean what you think it means. It really means: don't organize your IPC around sh
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by smosher 14y ago
It is a good point, when the load time is measured in seconds it doesn't leave one with the impression that it's fast. It would be better to see it serving with a more realistic configuration.
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by smosher 14y ago
I think so too. But simple pages in this configuration just measure nginx performance (check the breakdown)—that's a good sign for the rest of the process.
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by smosher 14y ago
Thanks for pointing it out, I gave me an excuse to look at the numbers: I took 4.6 seconds when I loaded it. In the breakdown ~4.3s of that was nginx dicking around (probably spending much of its time telling people it can't spawn an instan
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by smosher 14y ago
The language in the blog is very annoying, but the subject matter is nice. You've probably seen it before but now you know how to implement it... or one way to implement it anyway.
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by smosher 14y ago
That's an acceptable approximation for now at least, although Go doesn't know which threads will hold up the runtime. I'm not sure what's left to clarify on your part. I think you misunderstand what working with Coro is like. In practice th
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by smosher 14y ago
The fact is everything you said about it is wrong, and you drew the wrong conclusions from the docs. I would forgive a person for making that mistake from a lack of experience, but if you want to play it the other way I could just accuse yo
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by smosher 14y ago
You also seem very ill informed about Coro On the contrary, I've used it. And Go. I know what it's like in practice which do not, and this makes your claims sound very ignorant to me. So, no, _You do IO in the regular way and the schedul
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by smosher 14y ago
Taking perl as an example, they probably know how perl does file i/o. Yet if we're switching to a concurrent system, the entire practice they have of doing file i/o needs to be re-grokked. I see you didn't look into Coro or read much of w
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by smosher 14y ago
And newcomers may be able to immitate/cargo-cult your styling blindly without straying too far off the gods-sworn path if they are really lucky! I guess they should count themselves lucky if they know what an API is at all. C'mon this is
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by smosher 14y ago
> but that implies a movement away from stock standard core [...] never [etc.] I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't disagree very strongly with these sentiments (see below about growing your own CSP/etc, and later about Coro in

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