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by wowoc 10y ago
Thanks! Yeah, now it does seem bad that I haven't put any snippets on the front page. I'll fix that later today.
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by wowoc 10y ago
Not quite. It has extra things too, like generics. But things that exist in Go are there too, mostly unchanged.
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Have: a new language that transpiles to Go(havelang.org)
77 points by wowoc 10y ago|62 comments
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by wowoc 10y ago
Ag is way faster.
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by wowoc 10y ago
Big Bang theory was proposed by a Catholic priest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
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by wowoc 10y ago
Yeah, the author just means the Germanic countries/culture.
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by wowoc 10y ago
What? Italy is not "Western"? Well, your definition of Western Europe is very weird. Italy is one of the foundations of Western Europe. What you wrote about religious heritage is also weird... Protestant Austria? France? What you&
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by wowoc 11y ago
I asked my co-worker who usually contacts support, and in most cases we actually got some response (mine never got any reply though), but it was always full of buck passing. Like saying that these routing issues you're writing about mu
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by wowoc 11y ago
My main concern with GCP is its unreliability. BigQuery API randomly giving 40x/50x errors (that has been happening for over a year), signed URL API returning series of 50Xs every few days, CPU on instances going up to 100% for some un
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by wowoc 11y ago
It was mentioned in a few places, but very briefly as well. Which is a bummer because Neil Stephenson could've afforded to push a few details more into the story.
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by wowoc 11y ago
Speaking of which: http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Pi...
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SlowMo from low-FPS videos: How we create video frames from nothing(pandastream.com)
19 points by wowoc 12y ago|0 comments
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by wowoc 12y ago
Whoops! We're working on that, it will be back in a moment. PS. But Panda (the service) is working, it's just the static frontpage.
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by wowoc 12y ago
But it's not just about pure, CPU-wise language speed. We re-architected some of the software, and Go concurrency model was very helpful with that.
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by wowoc 12y ago
Thanks! It has been some time since we ran the profiler on the Ruby code, but AFAIR it was doing a lot of parsing; also it extensively used a logging gem that was dumping Ruby objects to strings. We could have just used another logging libr
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Rewrite from Ruby to Golang resulted in ~70x speed increase(pandastream.com)
30 points by wowoc 12y ago|8 comments
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by wowoc 12y ago
Where are the numbers? It would be interesting if it wasn't so vague.
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by wowoc 12y ago
Well, now I just hope that generics are extremely helpful in writing compilers! :-)
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by wowoc 12y ago
Some time ago, I wrote a simple tool (command line and C++ library) for generating random data for the same purpose. You basically specify a regular expression and the random strings on output match that regexp. Link: https://git
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by wowoc 13y ago
I don't know, Qt Creator gives up on the code base I have to work on, CDT has problems but is still much better. I remember it used to be the same at my previous job. I wish I could use KDevelop or Xcode, but we're doing our work
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by wowoc 13y ago
C++ is really great, but there are two major pains that I wish someone found remedies for: compile time and compiler error messages. Lack of tooling was another one, but with libclang tons of good tools are coming.
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by wowoc 13y ago
I think that some amount of knowledge was assumed. You would have understood it if you had known Java. For-each loops in Java have a very similar syntax. You probably know something that is similar to Ruby, and that's why you understan
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by wowoc 13y ago
Take a look at this quote: Let's say you and I have a chat in the corridor or the conference room and the result of this chat is that we converge to the view that we need an additional software engineer or animator or artist or hardwa
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by wowoc 13y ago
I am Polish and I confirm. I thought that my English is not too bad until I went for a short trip to London.
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by wowoc 13y ago
Part of Istanbul is in Europe, another part is in Asia. Whole St. Petersburg is in Europe. No part of Tel Aviv is in Europe.
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by wowoc 13y ago
A fragment from "Modern C++ Design" by Andrei Alexandrescu: Designing software systems is hard because it constantly asks you to choose. And in program design, just as in life, choice is hard. Good, seasoned designers know what choices wil
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by wowoc 13y ago
I remember one such interview. I had to write a relatively small and simple routine. I was supposed to start talking/coding immediately, when I stopped doing that for maybe 5-10 seconds (I think it's pretty normal that you might need a litt
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by wowoc 13y ago
What's SoMA?
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by wowoc 13y ago
Not joking. But I had my suspicions, I think I might have seen a clothes dryer in American movies or something. BTW. We have -30°C winters and we still get by without them. We just hang our clothes indoors, next to a radiator.
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by wowoc 13y ago
I live in Eastern Europe. How else do dry your clothes apart from hanging them?

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