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by zeroxfe 3y ago
A subscription to Waking Up: wakingup.com
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> It’s not really that go is better designed for fast compilation One of the explicit goals, by Go's creators, was fast build times. I still remember Rob Pike introducing Go during an all-hands at Google, where he talked about the v
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Super weird phrasing, particularly since Rust's type safety is far more sophisticated than Go's.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
You are correct about (1), but "citation needed" for (2). Psychedelic therapies are most definitely not based on hype -- there's real research being conducted by real doctors, and it's only becoming more prevalent. [1]
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Because every single handler in a long chain of requests will have to explicitly support and propagate this data. The whole idea of a request context is to let you plumb low-cost metadata transparently through a call tree, and decouple your
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> If I wasn't paid to work full time on open source software, I'd think very carefully about whether to do any open source work nowadays. I've been maintaining open source software for two decades now, and I still love it
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
It's instant vs. delayed gratification. Being right is seductive, and immediately rewarding. You are perfectly normal.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch! Great landing page, and impressive demos.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Humans only have the delusion of agency.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Feels like you're missing the spirit of the article. Nobody's advocating it as a git replacement -- the author is just posting thoughts about something they built.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
T + 2day is ridiculous. T + 1ms is also ridiculous (speed of light and all.)
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
That doesn't make sense. `getNext()` has no ability to break out of the loop.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> Expecting ICs to "find something and kill it" signals desperation Ugh. Way to misrepresent GP. Table stakes for strong engineers is to be able to proactively find and solve problems in products (among other things.) Of course
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
That's not what they're saying. At the lower and mid levels, there are far more ICs than managers. At the top levels, there are more managers than ICs (at each level.) This is the case in most major tech companies I've seen.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
The timing of this is hilarious: https://twitter.com/chatsidhartha/status/1649484240952721408 Oracle just sent a legal threat to "Rust for Javascript" to remove "Javascript" from their name. (O
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
https://0xfe.blogspot.com/ My posts are sporadic and span nearly two decades now. It's all programming related -- stuff on statistics, music notation, systems administration, etc. Some of these got to the HN front page
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
It's not a language primitive. It's a data format that enables type safety in libraries or APIs (as opposed to a more opaque data format like UUIDv7.)
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Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?
113 points by zeroxfe 3y ago|115 comments
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
So how does one find high quality games on mobile? There's so much crap out there on the Play store, it's really hard to pick games. I don't care much about the genre or the price, I just want to play some high quality, low b
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> So in conclusion, you're moving the goalposts and asserting that everyone that has issues with the tech must be an idiot since it works for you. That's not what GP asserted at all. You made some vague statements about gql, an
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> Andrej Karpathy was one of the first to clearly explain (in 2017!) why the new AI wave really matters. Geoff Hilton had been saying this well before 2017. I remember his talks at Google ~2013ish.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> All of them boil down to speed-running a pointless process. There's a pretty large gap between auditing every line of code and doing nothing. Google does a good job managing external dependencies within their monorepo. There'
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
It's the playbook of any well funded organization trying to break into a new market. This is the entire premise of loss leaders, and they're effectively risking their entire capital.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
> However, C happens to be almost a clean subset of Rust. You can take a C program and translate it line by line to Rust. I can't see how that's possible, unless you litter your code with `unsafe` all over the place. Rust requi
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
I don't think they're arguing that exceptions are better, just that `try` (in Zig) or `?` (in Rust) is nicer than `if err != nil { ... }`. It's the one thing about go that I really wish had better ergonomics.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
That's 5 minutes a year, not decade. (I worked in telecom for a very long time.) Telco basically set the bar for "5 9s."
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Totally not true. My Shopify offer was slightly higher than my Google offer (as a re-hire), both base + stocks, about 3 years ago. However, going with Google really paid off because of the stock performance.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Nobody's forcing anything. This is hacker culture, and it's what drives progress. Get over it.
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by zeroxfe 3y ago
Both Stripe and PayPal are payments processors.
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by zeroxfe 4y ago
That sounds reasonable in theory, but doesn't work out in practice.

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