thegeekpirate

22 ms·

1. 211.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   https://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html#Knockout
2. 212.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   https://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html#Knockout
3. 213.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   50 open, but only 9 of them are actual bugs!
4. 214.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   Black Hat USA 2015 - The Memory Sinkhole Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuIGLz01hE
5. 215.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   Linode has had _far_ larger issues than DO ever has. That's why I switched to DO in the first place.
6. 216.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   > If I recall, it was optional for CounterStrike1.4, but then required for CS1.6. 1.6 was the only version on Steam, 1.5 used the WonID servers, which they shut down a few years later. The largest issue with Steam when it was released wa
7. 217.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   > In fact in blind tests, its very hard to tell which is what b/w coke and pepsi. As someone who aced the Pepsi Challenge when they were around, they have very different tastes (I don't like the way Pepsi tastes at all), and I&
8. 218.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   Posted earlier without the random hash in the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040349
9. 219.▲
   by thegeekpirate 10y ago

   Don't let one or two people be the deciding factor when it was probably the best line out of any submission I've read. The meaning was incredibly clear, to a point where I can't even fathom how there could be a misunderstandi
10. 220.▲
    by thegeekpirate 10y ago

    > Go is not ready to solve problem «right now» either Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Red Hat, DigitalOcean, Zynga, Yahoo, BBC, Salesforce, VMware, Uber, GitHub, Getty Images, Twitter, Stack
11. 221.▲
    by thegeekpirate 10y ago

    https://github.com/gorilla/websocket#gorilla-websocket-compa...
12. 222.▲
    by thegeekpirate 10y ago

    There are plenty of projects on Github which implement features based on requests (submitted via the issue tracker).
13. 223.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    FWIW, I can play every Blizzard game (currently addicted to Heroes of the Storm) on Linux with no issues using WINE (staging, to be exact).
14. 224.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    @divan, any reason why you haven't submitted this for inclusion into gometalinter yet? I'm sure Alec would be more than happy to include it =)
15. 225.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    This is incorrect. Dropbox replaced their most performance-intensive section with Rust to squeeze out every last drop. They're still very much so a Go and Python shop.
16. 226.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    Do that with any phone and you'll get a bunch of results.
17. 227.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    It's incredibly large in China (Baidu, Qiniu). I apologize since I haven't looked into countries specifically, but to respond to "anyone else seriously investing in Go?", I'll paste it here for you anyways. Walmart,
18. 228.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    I've simply used https://github.com/mpeterson2/save-session .
19. 229.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    Ah, cheers for the correction, it's unfortunate I can't edit it =(
20. 230.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    It absolutely is, but there's even more to it than that. From their documentation ( http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/progra... ): "In order to filter out false positives, two
21. 231.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    From a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a bunch of Chinese ones I haven't heard of (of which there are many
22. 232.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    It's happening. And not only for StarCraft =) http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id... http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id..
23. 233.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    If that's the case, care to name off some instances of a language becoming wildly popular for businesses and then just as quickly dying off outside of the JavaScript ecosystem in the last decade? You seem to be missing the forest for t
24. 234.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    > The creators of go only look at the gemstone from a single angle. So they never see the stain and they really don't care. When people complain to them, they just tell the complainers that they're looking at the gemstone from
25. 235.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    > But... Python already exists? He never said Go was the only language which had a wonderful standard library, only that it's > one of Go's biggest strengths
26. 236.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    Your post (and in turn, my reply) had absolutely nothing to do with the article. > I don't think a language's popularity has anything to do with it being a good, well-thought-out language. Just look at Javascript. My point is t
27. 237.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    Javascript is a very poor analogy since it's been grandfathered into our workflow, and has coincidentally been shoehorned into being workable, at the very least.
28. 238.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    No one says you don't need generics. Here's rsc explaining why it's not in the language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417 No piece of feedback is ignored, I'm not sure how you've gotten
29. 239.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    > However "working as intended" I think is also the response of Go to their lack-of-generics, which I think is kind of crap. Where the hell did you get that from? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417
30. 240.▲
    by thegeekpirate 11y ago

    Agreed, that would have been a far better term if that was the meaning he was attempting to portray.