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by treehau5 9y ago
there's actually a pretty serious niche of us Go game developers growing as well
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by treehau5 9y ago
No, not really. Go left a lot of C behind (pointer arithmetic for example), while also being garbage collected and having modules instead of header files. Coincidentally, while being touted as replacement for C and as the "language of
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by treehau5 9y ago
> GC performance is a trade between throughput and pause time. Go has sub-millisecond GC pauses, and even at that minimizes the need to do stop-the-world pauses (previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by treehau5 9y ago
> How did we get here? Well, C++ and its stupid O(n^2) compilation complexity [...] Wasn't large compilation time a driving force behind coming up with Go? Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web browser? I am just cu
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by treehau5 9y ago
Are any of these good? A lot of them look interesting
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by treehau5 9y ago
In the former case, the inflation was due to sketchy MBS's. In the latter case, price inflation in major city center's suburbs are causing the cost of building materials to go sky (lumber I believe is up 16% in the past 6 months),
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by treehau5 9y ago
Incentive to do it.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> it's obviously possible What if it's unobviously not possible?
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by treehau5 9y ago
> I disagree. I think many of the problems in software development as practiced today originate from thinking that the theory is all that is necessary. This is such horseshit. Computer Science gives you the intuition needed to guide you
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by treehau5 9y ago
We need to get the climate debate away from the ends, and look more at what is actually happening, i.e the facts. The facts are we have more carbon in our atmosphere than ever recorded, and it is a direct relation to human activities. We ar
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by treehau5 9y ago
> I'm left believing that my only choice is to have no opinion. I learned this lesson a long time ago from the role models in my life that ended up getting burned because of having a differing viewpoint from whatever societal winds
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by treehau5 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy
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by treehau5 9y ago
This is a useless reply, and it has become pervasive. Technically anyone not a part of the solution is part of the problem. Instead maybe clarify on what you find objectionable to help everyone out, including parent.
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by treehau5 9y ago
Why stop there? Do you write your own libraries, generate your own grammars, go through the logic of your program in your head? Personally, I think it's just silly hacker bias.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> religion : would you teach him your religion because that’s what you beleive to be true, or let him search and choose for himself, knowing that if hou had taught him he has more chances to grow up having your beliefs, and if not he mi
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by treehau5 9y ago
damage they've done? Or damage phishers have done? Are we not to advance technology because some scumbags might abuse the technology?
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by treehau5 9y ago
Now I understand why we have so many Canadian actors and comedians in America!
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by treehau5 9y ago
I'm the exact same way. There is a very scientific and analytical aspect of cooking that people miss out on and I think would appeal to many more here on HN. Baking is the ultimate example in my opinion of you must get everything perfe
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by treehau5 9y ago
> I learned something that day, though I'm not sure what. Get paid for your output, and not your time?
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by treehau5 9y ago
I feel you on cooking not being a hobby. However where it clicked for me: Once I got good enough at it, I realized I could 80-90% of the time cook food that tasted way better and was a lot cheaper than what I could find out at a restaurant.
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by treehau5 9y ago
Not not saying that there isn't room in America's big economy for that, but the topic was "Which professions are paid too much given their value to society" -- Real estate agent is an easy, immediate answer to this ques
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by treehau5 9y ago
There are farmers markets where you have local farmers come together as part of a co-op or some other organization and sell their produce, and then you have "farmers" markets which are basically outdoor grocery stores that sell th
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by treehau5 9y ago
Ironically, part of their pitch to customers is "By cutting out the middle man and delivering ingredients at their freshest." I also see it from my own perspective: As blue apron gets millennials cooking again, more and more of th
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by treehau5 9y ago
As someone who just recently sold FSBO, this rings true to me. Real Estate agents provide an entirely 100% superfluous service especially in relation to the absurd amount of commission they charge. The important aspects of selling a home ar
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by treehau5 9y ago
> Then everyone is university'ing wrong! Hey hey! I tend to agree! Finding students a job should be a secondary byproduct of first giving them a world class education where you prepare and enable the student for society through bein
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by treehau5 9y ago
> too many universities are in the business of signing in students and not finding them a job If you are a university in the "business of finding students a job" you are university'ing wrong.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> I don't care much for definitions - because dictionaries are often years or decades behind how words are literally used. I don't care that you don't care for definitions. Words have meaning, whether you care about them o
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by treehau5 9y ago
> But honestly, there is an expectation of some level of competency/knowledge when trying to "claim" a hobby, because people consider a hobby as something you involve yourself in at more than a surface level. No. In fact,
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by treehau5 9y ago
"One of my favorite hobbies is piano" "Oh yeah? What's your favorite scale?" "Uh what?" "Can you tell me your favorite major triad?" "..." interviewer assumes person is lying because t
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by treehau5 9y ago
I would like to contact Go's "official marketing" department and tell them they have done a horrible job at marketing, because most of the lauding for go comes from developers I know that love getting work done with it! In an

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