camus2

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by camus2 9y ago
> It's worse than that, the authentic name-brand listing can still ship scammy clones instead because Amazon aggregates the listing from multiple sellers and pretends they're all the same thing It's called fraud. Some peop
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by camus2 9y ago
> I think it’s a good thing. Better than sacrificing journalistic integrity for clickbait that helps drive more ads err ... they are doing both.
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by camus2 9y ago
> It really is striking to me that it is so popular to dislike Go on HN. A lot of people seem to have to voice their dislike for it instead of just not using the language. It's normal. After the initial hype 3/4 years ago, deve
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by camus2 9y ago
> a GC is not an impediment in a systems language, You'd have to define what you mean by system language at first place before making such a claim.
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by camus2 9y ago
> Like I said: Go does everything C does, but better. It doesn't do everything C does, it doesn't allow manual memory management at first place. So you can't pretend that a garbage collected language does everything a lang
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by camus2 9y ago
> It's everything C can do, but much better. No, go has a garbage collector. It is not a replacement for C. Languages like C++, Rust or Ada are.
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by camus2 9y ago
> That is because browser environment catches all exceptions and displays them in console. So effectively they become handled exceptions. No, it has nothing to do with the developer console. It has everything to do with the fact that asy
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by camus2 9y ago
Promises existed way before they were put in the specification and way before async/await. So no, promises could not have been advertised as part of async/await since they came before async/await.
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by camus2 9y ago
> This code will just ignore the error. While it is expected that the runtime error would float up and terminate the program - that is what runtime errors are made for. No, this behavior is consistent with how asynchronous programming wo
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by camus2 9y ago
> The case of bitcoin being safe haven is probably only apply in the long term. It's quite obvious the price is heavily speculated now. There is no "safe haven" on the long run, it has been a cycle of pump and dump schemes
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by camus2 9y ago
13/ make sure your webpage doesn't depend on Javascript just to display an article and its title, like 99% of news websites and blogs today... 14/ avoid sticky headers,like this page has, that take 1/8 of the screen real
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by camus2 9y ago
Well it has supports for JSX and decorators which AFAIK aren't in the spec yet. It also has a syntax for class mixins without actually doing any desugaring when the code is transpiled. So it's not quite just JS + types.
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by camus2 9y ago
> You say that so definitively. Have you worked on a product with millions of new users a week? It's an extremely hard, constantly shifting problem. Facebook has hundreds of engineers and enough data to do match patterns against. Fa
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by camus2 9y ago
> Think about it--if a user receives a bunch of fake friend requests, it's a bad experience. Except that Facebook knows who is real and who fake. Just like my mail provider knows who sends spam and who doesn't. Facebook can di
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by camus2 9y ago
> On the one hand this may help certain companies that focus on limited use of customer data thrive in Europe. On the other hand it’s one more tick against Europe for global companies deciding where to invest so expect to see some big do
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by camus2 9y ago
I give directly to paypall and patreon to support creators. I couldn't give a damn about Google itself making money at that point. i block all ads, no discrimination. If you want me to support your site, ask for a donation, like the Gu
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by camus2 9y ago
> Remember Google’s main business, Search, is still about getting you away from Google as quick as possible. As a googler, you don't even know that your own company provides analytic tools for websites, as well as personalized integ
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by camus2 9y ago
So you are saying I can go to Bitfinex with my USDT and ask for real dollars in place of my USDT and they will give me real dollars?
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by camus2 9y ago
Tether story is extremely interesting in the crypto world because it goes against everything crypto currencies like bitcoin were supposed to be: - it's completely centralized, a single actor emits tethers. - it's completely opaque
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by camus2 9y ago
or Ruby and Opal... The claim of that website is BS.
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by camus2 9y ago
> Implicit in your comment is that it's unlikely to hire a woman or member of another under represented population who is the best. I have never said that. It is you who is saying that. Furthermore I'm black myself so I've
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by camus2 9y ago
And this guy has the audacity to boast on Twitter about how he has too much money he doesn't know what to do with it. Well how about he gives his workers better work conditions? there are simple techniques that wouldn't even cost
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by camus2 9y ago
> Difference is that tech poses itself as "new" (i.e. different from old, traditional things/companies) and its leaders (actual business magnates or your average CEO) either indirectly or directly talk about making the wor
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by camus2 9y ago
> Governments are not friendly. Neither are corporations. Uber is not your friend.
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by camus2 9y ago
Because you think hooligans aren't being mean and hateful online as well? let's not even talk about political circles which have nothing to do with gaming. You are talking from you experience standpoint but you're wrong, ther
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by camus2 9y ago
Compared to what? violent hooligans in football?
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by camus2 9y ago
It just make it is easier for extremists of all sides to find each other and build echo chambers to strengthen their ideas. Now this article is a bit hypocritical as every journalist and news media out there is also on social media and use
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by camus2 9y ago
> Gamers can be a pretty entitled group. Just like sport fans, moviegoers, fooding enthusiasts or people who buy books. In every circle you'll have a tiny loud minority who behaves like crap, it has nothing to do with gaming. You&#
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by camus2 9y ago
> Emacs is written in Elisp which is a dynamic language just like JavaScript All dynamic languages are not born equal when it comes to performance. 2 implementations of the same language aren't even equal. While V8 is a fast JS engi
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by camus2 9y ago
Nah, looks like another iteration of UML.

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