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> To me, the core Go authors are more of engineers than artists I thought the same thing. They are like the anti-Larry Wall.
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> ...are a breath of fresh air... Agreed. Go lacks many things, but the "zen" of Go is wonderful feature most people aren't aware of, or under appreciate. I wouldn't use Go for everything, but I wouldn't dismiss
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12y ago
Like the concept, but the name is confusing. I get it is coming from a separate gem, but hopefully it is renamed to convey what the intent is.
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12y ago
I disagree: it was clear to me it was a GUI tool to manage and run containers on my mac.
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12y ago
"cars are basically software at this point" Really? A lot of the value add is software, but there is still a ton of hardware that goes into a car.
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MS DOS for Mobile
(windowsphone.com)
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12y ago
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12y ago
As developers we value open apis and interop, but I'm not sure end-users care that much. They just want to connect with their friends and family, and if they need to use a different apps to stay connected, so be it. In a way, I think t
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12y ago
He wrote this recently: http://www.theplayerstribune.com/why-i-play-football/ "I have no desire to try to accumulate $10 million in the bank; I already have more money in my bank account than I know what to do wit
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And don't forget the "premium milk" http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/03/coca-cola-cok...
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12y ago
"Change is the essential process of all existence."
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12y ago
This is a great start. I'm actually in the middle of a writing a Golang service, and this list checks off everything I've been dealing with. A lot of these things aren't golang-specific, though. Ideally it would be easy to sw
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I'e been writing my first production-sized Go app over the last few months, and really enjoy it. Some observations: - The standard library is solid, and I was surprised how well-rounded and mature the third-party library support it. Co
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J1407b: New Planet with rings 200x larger than Saturn's
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Yes, I think that's a reasonable time to start thinking about working remotely, depending on what sort of career path you're looking for. I think it's difficult to do management for the first time in a remote environment, alt
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12y ago
> Would you suggest this even for new grads looking for a first job? Nope. I've been a full-time remote worker for 6.5 years, and 1/2 time (2 days a week) for 4 years before that. During that time I've managed and hired re
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12y ago
"Quite frankly, HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem ever." Can anyone summarize why he thinks this?
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IO has been around for a while now, I remember it got some press back when _why was still active: http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAV... I've played around with it a bi
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12y ago
And it is a poorly written article to boot.
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12y ago
I, too, remember the original issue. I thought it was mostly BS back then, but re-reading the first page made me reconsider it: "Sure, we'll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don't we? But the cent
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12y ago
Not trying to defend Uber, but I can't remember any positive PR about them, apart from raising a huge amount of cash. So, honest question: any good stories about them?
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12y ago
I'm not a huge MongoDB fan, but I think it is great to see competition and evolution in this space. From the article: "In addition to compression and record-level locking, WiredTiger also gives MongoDB multi-version concurrency co
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12y ago
Yeah, and you can't create UX elements on the fly, they have to be contained in the bundle pushed to the phone. So, less to install/push/change over the phone/watch network connection.
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12y ago
It looks like there are native Apple apps on the watch: they noted in the intro video that clicking on an image of a map opens up the Apple Watch's "Maps App"
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12y ago
Am I groking this right? The Watchkit app actually runs on the iPhone as an extension, and just the UI component runs on the watch hardware? Edit: better direct link: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/
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I'm still a bit unsure about these sorts of projects. I like the idea of improving Javascript's rough edges, but whenever I start a new project, I always seem to stick with plain old javascript. That said, Spider feels like it is
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Does ArangoDB use the same storage strategy MongoDB does? From the FAQ: "So how much RAM do you need? This depends on the size and structure of your data: Your application will access one or many collections (think of collections as de
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I listen to reruns on a regular basis, and what continues to amaze me about the show is their ability to "debug" cars and make it sound fun. They were always helpful, never looking down on the caller or the predicament they found
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I live in Michigan, and was dishearten when I read about this story the other day. But not really that surprised. A few observations: - Tesla isn't a name brand here like Ford or GM. In fact, if you asked a lot of people if we should h
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Yup, ran into that experience myself. Viewing the log helped me see the install hadn't busted, because it also gave me the beach ball of doom around the same time. Everything was alright in the end.
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12y ago
Off topic from the review but handy since people were talking about crashing: Learned a cool trick tonight: Yosemite was taking a while to install, so I did some googling and learned you can see the installer's log by typing CMD-L duri
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