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by uriel 15y ago
But mount -o bind is not very useful when only root can use it and when it doesn't include proper union mounts. Same problem applies to one of Plan 9's key design features: private namespaces.
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by uriel 15y ago
> The problem with having three ways of declaring a variable Three ways? I only count two, and the rule for what to use is very simple: any time the type can be inferred from the initial value, you use := (obviously you can't use := in
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by uriel 15y ago
If anything Go has become simpler and has removed crud since it was introduced. And that is precisely what gives me hope, Go is going against the trend of almost every other language.
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by uriel 15y ago
You can always use: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search
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by uriel 15y ago
No mention of acme? :( Rob Pike and Russ Cox both use acme on OS X. See http://acme.cat-v.org
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by uriel 15y ago
For comparison purposes: The best code I have ever read was written with Sam ( http://sam.cat-v.org ) by Ken Thompson, the second best code I have ever read was written in ed(1) (by Ken and Dennis Ritchie), and the third was probably code
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by uriel 15y ago
The people who created Plan 9 (and Unix) this days are working on something that has a better chance of blowing a hole through the huge mess that is modern software: Go ( http://golang.org ) I might be naive, but Go is the only thing that
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by uriel 15y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite Feynman quotes: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." — Richard P. Feynman, minority report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
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by uriel 15y ago
- read Strunk & White.
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by uriel 15y ago
This is interesting in view of Go's convention to use the ending -er for interface types (Reader, Writer, ...) rather than the implementations of those interfaces.
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by uriel 15y ago
For more documentation and papers see: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/
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by uriel 15y ago
I used to be a huge Inferno fan, but with Go around (Rob and Ken both worked on Inferno, Rob was even responsible for the name), I wonder how relevant it is this days. Go has a much more vibrant community and development is blindly fast. Gi
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by uriel 15y ago
The security concerns about WebGL are not "whitewash". John Carmack: "I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security." http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/sta
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by uriel 15y ago
Off topic: Proper, consistent and through UTF-8 support is one of the various reasons I'm starting to prefer Go to Pytho. It is sad that Python 3 didn't take the opportunity to properly fix this.
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by uriel 15y ago
It probably does, but doubt anyone has bothered to check.
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by uriel 15y ago
> The idea of exceptions is not primarily reading out details from the throw exception object, but to let programmers code the "happy flow" as if errors can not happen. The problem is that errors can and will happen , and exceptions ma
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by uriel 15y ago
> Reddit commenters seems to take some pride that they are not as worse as their cousins at 4chan or youtube. As a redditor for >5 years, I'm not sure they can claim even that anymore.
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Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for High-concurrency Servers)(usenix.org)
41 points by uriel 15y ago|40 comments
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The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect(harmful.cat-v.org)
3 points by uriel 15y ago|0 comments
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by uriel 15y ago
> In that, the critique seemed hopelessly ignorant of how the news works. I can't blame him for suffering from Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect
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by uriel 15y ago
Another sad thing (credit for noting this goes to Rob Pike years ago) is that after years of development and hundreds of thousands of lines of code web browsers still don't support searching with regexps! (Hell, Chrome doesn't even support
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by uriel 15y ago
And if PHP was Japanese it would commit Seppuku.
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by uriel 15y ago
See the paper by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan 'Program Design in the UNIX Environment' (aka 'cat -v considered harmful'): http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
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by uriel 15y ago
I wonder the same, but from people I trust and what I do know, it seems that they are better than pretty much anything else being published this days. Their Science and Tech section is clearly not better than alternatives, and in many ways
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by uriel 15y ago
The Economist has been in favor of full legalization of all drugs for decades now. Fun fact: Milton Friedman was also strongly in favor of legalization, and he even convinced his friend and Reagan's Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Even
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by uriel 15y ago
Avoiding the overhead of python's startup time alone would be nice, hg is impressively fast for being written in Python, but could be much faster and memory-efficient in a compiled language where you have control over memory layout. And tha
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by uriel 15y ago
What i would like to see is an Hg implementation in Go.
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by uriel 15y ago
Their coverage of world politics and other topics is also very good. Only the Science and Technology section is appallingly and depressingly bad.
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by uriel 15y ago
Their Science and Technology section is tabloid-grade garbage. The rest is excellent and way better than what you can find almost anywhere else.
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by uriel 15y ago
Problems like having to patch and build your own Java runtime because (if you are lucky and there is a working one) because Sun made it illegal to distribute modified Java distributions that had not passed the test-kit, and everyone should

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