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by spriggan3 10y ago
> The point of it is there are no servers to manage If I deploy a PHP script on a shared host there is no server to manage either. My PHP script doesn't listen communications on a socket connection. It doesn't make it "ser
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> there was no endpoint to invoke in a client-server fashion. How do you trigger a function from the outside Lambda ?
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> And for all those who disagree with "Serverless", come to Serverlessconf London (london.serverlessconf.io) and we can debate it there. In fact, would love to see everyone there! Nobody disagree with anything but the marketing
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by spriggan3 10y ago
"Serverless" is a stupid expression. There is still a server, otherwise how do you call your functions from outside ? The most accurate description of "functions as service" is a simple pub sub architecture, some service
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by spriggan3 10y ago
How about no? the meaning of a word depends on the context. If you are pissed off because I use the right word in the right context, you are the problem, not me. Master/Slave is a perfectly valid nomenclature in the context of computer
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> With transpiling, adoption of these asynchronous concepts has been possible quicker than would have been achieved otherwise. You're basically admitting that Javascript is not good enough to write asynchronous code and you need to
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> but having never used Go I'm wondering what makes it a "bad technology"? The justification for Go is basically "developers are stupid and don't know what they are doing,so we're going to tell them what to
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by spriggan3 10y ago
You need both statically typed language and interpreted ones. But interpreted languages should only be the glue that is used with restrain and care, it shouldn't be the heart of a system. You said it yourself, sometimes you need things
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> In-memory only for now, disk backed durability is on the roadmap. > Job payload & results are limited to 1 MiB each. > Workq servers are standalone and do not speak to each other. i.e. don't use it in production. This is
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Is it possible that Go or any other language du jour just seems cleaner because it's newer and so the cruft hasn't had a chance to form yet? Come back in 10 years, and tell me how amazing it is then. That's the reason wh
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Why? `go get` is an obvious default choice for package management. I thought go get wasn't a package manager /s
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by spriggan3 10y ago
I hate that meme "let's make X great again".
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Or you know, use something else like YAML.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> limiting choice is not about how dumb the programmers are, but about ensuring conformity. What you say doesn't make sense given how Go reflection is implemented. If it was really about limiting choice Go would have no reflection
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Another example is the IDE macros people use for the standard if err != nil {} block Which doesn't make code easy to read when there are 10th of these blocks in a single function.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Trust is earned not just given.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
My bad, uber is running illegal taxi operations in a lot of countries, that's why its illegal taxi service was shut down in many countries and cities around the world.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
or better 3) uber is a taxi company and should follow the same laws and regulations as other taxi companies. Which would of course destroy uber's business model which is based on dodging the law, sorry, "disruption".
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by spriggan3 10y ago
My point is, Go posts easily appears on HN homepage, more than anything else. I didn't see a lot of posts about Java or Python there lately.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Mostly useful as a mocking tool during unit tests. AFAIK redis has tests, you don't need to rewrite tests for redis in Java. Mocking implies test assertions in the Mock. I'm sure redis driver for Java has tests too. That&#x27
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Didn't see a lot of HN posts about "How one rewrote Y from Z to Rust" yet.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> There is going to be 40 others that pop up in its place and you can bet that they'll be more prepared to withstand justice shopping efforts. What does that mean "justice shopping" ? are you implying that Hulk Hogan lawsu
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Rightfully so. Gawker was one the most obnoxious "news organisation" out there. But what is more shocking to me is how other news org are still defending Gawker, under the excuse of "free speech". I mean, one would think
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Most single taxi driver can be tipped and set a price for a fair themselves. why do you think Uber should be different ? /s
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> Good PHP code exists, it only got a bad name due to "web developers" with no formal programming education stumbling across PHP and going "aha this can generate my html etc" and then proceeding to make a pile of mist
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> If its under 50 lines of code for some simple processing It doesn't matter how much lines you write. It has nothing to do with the number of lines but the functionalities and how many developers review that piece of code. Furtherm
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> It is very easy to write tiny secure code in PHP without a framework Actually it isn't, like at all. A open source framework will always be more secure than the code you "easily write", because a larger pool developers c
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> While C is very simple it makes mistakes easier by requiring things to be done manually I wouldn't describe C as simple but basic. Of course, it's start being less basic with all the macros and all the tools needed to compile
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by spriggan3 10y ago
> someone could take your feed, strip out your ads, throw it on a website and introduce their own ads and make money off of your content. Someone can do that with web scraping too, don't blame RSS for this stuff.
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by spriggan3 10y ago
Finally ! Goodbye php,ruby and go ! can't get rid of Python though, simply the best language for analytics.

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