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by xiaq 10y ago
Despite of the pessimism, Rob's talk always has lots of refreshing insights and inspirations. But I also wonder that after several years in Google, how Rob would see systems software research today. (He is not doing OS in Google; but s
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by xiaq 10y ago
On a serious note, implementing libraries as standalone applications that can be accessed via IPC is actually a viable approach. Plan 9 does this with almost all of its services. Not exactly a fair comparison though, since the IPC mechanism
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Keys to SRE(youtube.com)
2 points by xiaq 10y ago|0 comments
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Art gallery problem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by xiaq 10y ago|0 comments
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by xiaq 11y ago
Exactly. Instead of a lot of plotting and planning, people just kill and die. It's very, very refreshing.
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by xiaq 11y ago
No, the sort package requires you to define methods on the slice of what you want to sort. For instance, if you defined a struct S, you need to implement Less, Swap and Len on an alias type of []S (since you cannot implement methods on sl
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by xiaq 11y ago
Write a code generator. That's the best solution at this moment.
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by xiaq 11y ago
In other words, "make things as simple as possible, but not simpler".
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How bad is the Windows command line really?(blog.nullspace.io)
4 points by xiaq 11y ago|0 comments
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by xiaq 11y ago
Only numerals have upper cases to prevent tampering. For example, you can alter 一(one) to 十(ten) pretty easily, but not 壹 to 拾.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Perl hackers will disagree :)
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by xiaq 11y ago
This. My first reaction to the news is that it is a clear evidence that PostgreSQL is now fully on par with Oracle in terms of everything average IT companies need to be concerned with. If I were Oracle and my product is still ahead of Post
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by xiaq 11y ago
I can't speak for other nations, but they still teach numeric analysis in Chinese universities as an undergraduate course. In my university it is a required subject. Many of us have countless dreadful memories of Runge-Kutta method, Eu
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by xiaq 11y ago
Your will be located and FBI will break into your house. Seriously, the algorithm uses 1 as a default width.
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Wcswidth as a service(github.com)
8 points by xiaq 11y ago|6 comments
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by xiaq 11y ago
You can capture with tcpdump while analyzing it with wireshark at the same time ( https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes#Remote_Capture ).
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TextBlade(waytools.com)
21 points by xiaq 11y ago|7 comments
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by xiaq 11y ago
You don't see actual scripting languages on HN every day.
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by xiaq 11y ago
> To me this seems to be claiming that what we have now is a form of "lower" literature, to be tackled by AI so that humans can produce "an even higher form of literature". But, of course, literature isn't graded
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by xiaq 11y ago
Art is, mostly, domain of knowledge not yet claimed by science. When a technique turns art into science, it means that humans are ready to tackle even harder problems. Think about medicine before and after microscopes. Holy art turned into
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by xiaq 11y ago
He said both, if you can read his posts on Weibo (rougly Chinese Twitter). And he said those two points in separate posts, so the headline quote not taking words out of context. It's Jie himself who used the clickbait strategy in the f
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by xiaq 11y ago
Could it have been popularized by golang's use of "rune" as a synonym of Unicode codepoint (which is inherited from Plan 9)?
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by xiaq 11y ago
Enums can be used for that purpose.
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by xiaq 11y ago
I thought the point of nano is being usable without a cheatsheet.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Lua has Torch.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Golang is no more a Google language than Unix is an AT&T OS. And why are "corporate languages" necessarily bad?
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by xiaq 11y ago
> ... because clearly defined documentation is hidden behind a paywall. Hmm you are from US aren't you? :)
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by xiaq 11y ago
Golang is the new JavaScript: everything that can be rewritten with it will be :)
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by xiaq 11y ago
It sounds radical, but it is very reasonable when you bring in the proper context. It is not talking about that kind of configuration like keybinding and color scheme, which is simple to implement, simple to understand, and something most u
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by xiaq 11y ago
There is still a key difference. With programming the information is always there. If you don't understand a higher level language but do understand the language in which the compiler is implemented, you can always read the compiler. T

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