wbsgrepit

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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
My understanding is that beyond the examples you talk about that go is being used extensively in google as a backend glue language for automation and services. https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
At one point in our history, it was contrary to known and upheld belief that the world was round. Given your position would we have ever had the debate and changed popular belief considering it was absurd by its very nature?
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
Given that eating from the tree of knowledge is sin ... =)
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
Yes, because it is imperative to teach and learn by rote. If any idea is commonly held to be true, there is no reason to have any discourse. Even for ideas that seem to be binary this is just ridiculous -- you will note that this positio
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
The issue with this stance is that history has shown many times that unpopular views and lively debate leads to growth, understanding and knowledge. You can have a "balanced viewpoint" and still have debates about "whether th
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
It seems like a zero sum, the problem is that any real world project that starts off as vanilla without a framework is almost assured to mutate into its own framework as the complexity of the project matures. Most of the pain points and p
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
This. A large codebase without a framework almost always becomes a defacto framework; else it becomes too much technical debt and is rewritten in a framework. =)
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
Not to mention the spectrum between intuition/innuendo and flat out insider trading knowledge that is cornerstone to the market -- trading algorithms don't do well against this human factor.
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
There are protections to this type of abuse in just about every comercial parking system -- so much so it is not even listed in advantages/features for most of their marketing materials. It is commonly refereed to Single Entrance Gate
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
Related, this is why manufacturer's coupons have changed in the last few years. It was previously possible to create a manufacturers coupon barcode for any UPC that would represent one of the standard discounts before GS1-128 includi
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by wbsgrepit 11y ago
I think he is forgetting that the barcode is generated and exits not in a silo but with knowledge of a controller. I would be amazed if the system did not both track the barcode creation and exit events and trigger protocols on any outside