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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The Go team does use Github Issues.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
:-) I guess even ancient 80s (?) software keeps with the times to some degree. Notwithstanding all the idiosyncratic (in our environment) defaults for ergonomics and terminology..
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I thought my point was clear from context.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. `emacs` launches a graphical window. Any objections?
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I asked for a reason.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
It's like motorcyclists wanting to convert their ride to something safe that their new family with small children can use for their next vacation... they're thinking of solving the problem at the wrong level. The foundations are f
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
(Late reply since the HN mods have decided that they hate me so I was getting messages like "you're submitting too fast".) The Pāli Canon, one of the oldest Buddhist canons. You can dismiss that if you want to, but they'
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Clearly what you want is something other than C .
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> The "UNIX philosophy" is good, it's just that UNIX doesn't really follow it. Well you know what they say. Talk is cheap. Ideas are basically free. Following through is hard. Having an abstract ideal is worthless if
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I guess that's why Unix-like OSs are so user-friendly. Just like snapping together lego blocks... not really though. It says something about the state of software if Unix is the thing that "taught us about composability". Lau
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
You'll note that it was grand parent that called me a European and not me. He happened to be right. But maybe that should tell you something about how I don't pretend to speak for an entire continent but just my corner of it. Ma
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> I really don't think class and pedigree mattering is an American thing. Of course. That's my first instinct when it comes to my own culture, "that's not an X thing, that's just how people are ." > I su
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The book is explicitly aimed (or marketed, if you will) at people of all beliefs and backgrounds. I guess the author is more concerned with teaching something that works rather than looking down on the sinful masses.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
While the authors are busy jerking themselves sore over American Exceptionalism, I'm still as alienated by the rampant focus on academic pedigree and class from Americans as I was when I first learned about it. In my corner of the worl
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Really the culture they are tilting against is the go-getter "productivity" culture that puts everything into two buckets: productive, and not-productive. Everything that can be directly measured is productive, while other things
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The book is available online. http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Because they are technical terms.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
What's the (an) alternative?
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I think the area is small enough to be measured in square meters...
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
There's not much difference between an academic language designer being a sourpuss that his ideas/language is not appreciated outside of his circle, and Rob Pike being a sourpuss that "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant&
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Forth is spartan on a whole other level compared to C.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
If some C programmers have that scoff at higher level programmers attitude, Chuck Moore is the equivalent but addressed at C programmers (and higher, I guess). I have a feeling he's not the kind of person a C programmer could say thi
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Rewriting something like C++ into a higher level language with a heavier runtime wouldn't necessarily be reducing code bloat in the author's eyes. He's talking about "bloat" in the sense of the whole stack, not ju
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> I'm working on a PhD in CS with a specialization in programming languages. Google came to do a PhD recruitment day and essentially asked "so what kind of PhD are you getting, machine learning or systems?" and we said &qu
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I guess GTD sucks for creative types. The type that thinks that their needs are so special compared to other workers, are very sensitive towards whatever environmental factor makes them feel bad or discouraged , that any kind of external
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The author should just be glad that his code didn't launch any missiles.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Emacs is a graphical application to me. That's the default behaviour, how I use it, and what I see people doing things like screencasts use.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
If that's how you want to interpret it.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> Based on what I've heard and read online, this is quite different from how it is in the US specifically, where gender inequality in STEM fields is a big deal. 1:5 sounds like gender inequality to me.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
If you find yourself in a tech context with many more women than you'd expect, you're probably in a third world country.

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