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by vegabook 10y ago
this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?
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by vegabook 10y ago
Neovim already fragmented the community. Bram seems to have stepped up to the challenge bigtime since neovim announcement, as judged by his github activity graph. https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors
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by vegabook 10y ago
we've lost the meaning of the word when we describe this banal traffic button as "beautiful". In my opinion, if anything, the photo, and indeed the entire article web page, is quite ugly.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Mapd looks really cool but as you say...disincentivized to open source.
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by vegabook 10y ago
This is becoming problematic across the open source DB world. Witness the graph capabilities of Datastax Enterprise on top of Cassandra, and Riak TS also took quite a while to open source the "TS" version, hoping I guess to moneti
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by vegabook 10y ago
Yes I guess I was throwing static typing, somewhat incorrectly, into the "pure" catch-all.
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by vegabook 10y ago
...it goes away as momentum builds and everyone gets interested...and then it comes roaring right back as the economics of mining favour concentration.
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by vegabook 10y ago
It is purer than Erlang, has less cruft than Scala, is more practical than Haskell, and in my opinion has a very nice syntax. It is also very fast.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I think some of the "question 3s" in the exercises were quite a challenge about 3 weeks into the course, and for people like me who insist on getting 100%, I remember spending 4-5x the allotted time on them (or maybe I'm just
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by vegabook 10y ago
Has this course changed or evolved in any way from the one that was given last year at this time (which was very good but had a few sizeable discreet jumps in the learning curve at certain points, which could have done with being smoothed o
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by vegabook 10y ago
How is this "fake money" more fake than the fiat currencies we use every single day, everywhere? It always simply comes down to the credibility of the issuance rules and the issuing entity.
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by vegabook 10y ago
haha... yeah. :-) Good ol' google.
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by vegabook 10y ago
well it doesn't get more "middle brow" than your vacuous meta non-comment. Actually the reality is that it's being downvoted because being anti-google is not a popular stance amongst the tech set, even if there is, as th
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by vegabook 10y ago
gotcha. Two separate dimensions basically. Colour for one, pattern for the other. Nice.
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by vegabook 10y ago
let's not mince words. The catastrophic acceleration in decline of elephant populations is directly correlated to the rise in wealth of China and Asia in general. For countries with such advanced IQ and engineering skills, this is a ma
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by vegabook 10y ago
I personally am doing BEAM now mainly because of Elixir. It's undeniable that a "hip", and let's face it, young, crowd, having chosen Erlang/BEAM, gives it a big breath of fresh air (this is NOT to insult the experi
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by vegabook 10y ago
Visually this looks very nice. I personally love your choice of colours for the website which compliments the retro look of pattern fills in general. What I'd like more information on, if possible, is whether or not such patterns are m
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by vegabook 10y ago
Well clearly they're brilliant at creating free platforms for advertising. They just seem to be poor at doing anything that requires explicit payment.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Makes sense. But they've shown no staying power in any of their other long term initiatives. Google Fibre (halving staff). Self driving car (looking for investors/partners). Robotics (disinvesting). Google+ (firing the boss after
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by vegabook 10y ago
If it we were in 2012 that would be true. There are multiple competing mapping suppliers now which are perfectly good enough for taxi navigation, including Uber's own system, not forgetting Tomtom's third party stuff, AAPL's
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by vegabook 10y ago
read: "Google ride-share is to Uber as Windows Phone is to Android". Late to the party, tragically deficient in first-mover network effect advantage, and on the decline in credibility since they're shutting down all moonshots
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by vegabook 10y ago
Bravo EU! Sure I see that there are plenty of commented caveats, but coming within 24 hours of a 14 billion dollar retroactive tax bill for one of the world's most opportunistic tax dodgers, I cannot help but have good faith towards th
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by vegabook 10y ago
they shouldn't. They will be subjected to a relentless digital world from age 10 onwards, and before that, they should at least be given the chance to fully bathe themselves in our intrinsically analogue reality, with all its subtle, u
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by vegabook 10y ago
Actors for openCL?? Color me sold, immediately. Not a huge fan of OO but wow this is exactly what I've been looking for -> GPU integration into an actor framework.
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by vegabook 10y ago
...in often distant second-class-citizen form, and a cursory glance at the docs of any of the big-hitting data flow platforms will show you that it's Java/Scala or bust (with some Python/R sure but to get serious you have to
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by vegabook 10y ago
Is Rust the right way forward then? Functional enough without obsessing about linked-memory structures / recursion etc?
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by vegabook 10y ago
aha! Thank you! I will check it out. [ edit: Object Oriented though. My personal beef with the JVM is that its primary languages are object oriented, which is a programming model many people dislike, Clojure notwithstanding ]
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by vegabook 10y ago
well, there has to be, even in minority, a subset of people who would like to use something other than the JVM languages? For example, I personally like using C, Python/Numpy, Erlang, and Ocaml. Personally I hate object oriented progra
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by vegabook 10y ago
jvm jvm jvm. Flink. Storm. Spark. Beam. projectreactor. Reactors. Samza. How spoiled are Java/Scala programmers but is there anybody doing anything similar in distributed computing frameworks that targets something other than the Java
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by vegabook 10y ago
Do you think that Vulkan, which also provides a compute API, and appears to be gaining rapid momentum, might solve some of these issues?

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