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by uriel 15y ago
This is one of the reasons I love Go, it is preeminently pragmatic language, not designed for "mediocre programmers" (Java) or "genius programmers" (Ocaml, Haskell, C++), or to fulfill feature checklists, but to be useful and used by hacker
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by uriel 15y ago
This is a good time to remember John Perry Barlow's " A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ": http://doc.cat-v.org/political_science/cyberspace-declaratio...
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by uriel 15y ago
Sorry for the snide comment, but if you want to really speed up your Rails, switch to Go, it will compile from scratch and start up your project faster than the ruby interpreter starts up. I used rails in a few projects, and performance was
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by uriel 15y ago
One of the reasons I'm starting to love Go more than Python. In Go something like super() is superfluous.
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by uriel 15y ago
They are good for creating jobs and selling expensive enterprisey software packages to PHBs.
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by uriel 15y ago
There is a "Custom Search Engine" for Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search
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by uriel 15y ago
The best thing it could do security-wise is ditching PHP.
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by uriel 15y ago
cat -n is discussed in Pike and Kernighan's paper on Unix style: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
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by uriel 15y ago
This is one of the reasons power always tends to concentrate.
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by uriel 15y ago
I would have been quite excited if Stanley Kubrick had directed it. One of the few directors that could take a masterpiece of a book, and make an even better film from it.
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by uriel 15y ago
A worse problem with JM was the so called actors.
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by uriel 15y ago
> Let me elaborate. Good Programmers write Portable Code. Lets not forget, the programmer in question we are talking about here is the author of the 'masterpiece' that is PulseAudio.
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by uriel 15y ago
> What on earth does systemd need that it can't get from solaris/bsd Poettering. In the long term this will be a competitive edge for *BSD over Linux.
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by uriel 15y ago
See NoScript, the greatest browser extension ever created.
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by uriel 15y ago
For anyone interested: The Plan 9 File Server by Ken Thompson: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/fs (Geoff Collyer later added 64bit support: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/fs and eventually Bell Labs replac
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How many ANDs and ORs does it take... Low-level bitwhacking at its most fun.(research.swtch.com)
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by uriel 15y ago
I'm sorry, but it was the middle class that went along with the insane bubble. The big Spanish banks, unlike banks in most other places, acted relatively responsibly and have not needed to be bailed out (the 'cajas', which are local banks c
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by uriel 15y ago
> architects and even engineers How is this surprising after one of the greatest housing bubbles in history burst?
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by uriel 15y ago
Sunny? One of the reasons I left is because I could not stand Summer at >45C.
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by uriel 15y ago
I'm sorry, but that is completely irrelevant to the situation in Spain, which among other things just suffered a housing bubble that almost makes the one in the US look like child's play. The employment market and other aspects of the Spani
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by uriel 15y ago
I left Spain many years ago, seems that nothing has changed (except except for the predictable and spectacular bust of the bubble). Often people ask me if I plan to go back to Spain, my answer has always been invariable " No way, are you ma
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by uriel 15y ago
> But there is a problem if a PhD is published only in english, because then there might be French citizens who will not be able to read a work they paid for (remember, the public education system is funded by the taxpayers-citizens). M
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by uriel 15y ago
Really, every time I hear of PHP I honestly ask myself: "why on earth would anyone want to be using PHP in this day and age?" It is like seeing people trying to cure cancer with leeches.
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by uriel 15y ago
They are all patented, you just have not seen the relevant patents (or if you had seen them you would not be able to understand them). There was a story not long ago about how somebody had patented doubly linked lists (or maybe how to trave
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by uriel 15y ago
The economic harm of the uncertainty created by the patent system is way greater than the harm done by the cases that make it into the news. And this harm is ignored by almost everyone (at least somebody else in this thread pointed it out
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by uriel 15y ago
Sadly this days most Python frameworks (including django) are quite full of all kinds of dark magic. If you want a blissfully magic-free language try Go ( http://golang.org ).
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by uriel 15y ago
And sad that still there are people falling for this.
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by uriel 15y ago
Why would anyone want to run CF on GAE? Other than masochism I can't imagine any other reason. In any case, why is this news? Isn't CF this days just a messed up syntax for already messed up Java stuff?
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by uriel 15y ago
The audio edition of The Economist is absolutely fantastic, as well read as it is well written, a pleasure to listen to.
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by uriel 15y ago
If you can't write your own linked lists or hash tables, you should not be programming in C. Glib is an abomination by people and for people that didn't understand C. Just like GNU is by people and for people that didn't understand UNIX.

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