edwardw

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by edwardw 14y ago
Yes, indeed. It would be very convenient to substitute an issue of double standard with of rhetoric.
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by edwardw 14y ago
Does anyone else feel sick about a title like this as I did? A nation can't do things; a government can.
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by edwardw 14y ago
You are such an acute observer, sir. This is the most accurate description about the matter by someone not Chinese I ever read. For that you have my respect.
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by edwardw 14y ago
Goodhearted? Why this looks like merely a calculated PR move for me?
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by edwardw 15y ago
> but simple malloc/free are much faster and more predictable than what you see in GC'd languages More predictable , very likely. Much faster , this is simply not true. E.g., quotes from an article by Brian Goetz[1]: The common co
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by edwardw 15y ago
> Maybe the big companies like Google and Facebook are approaching a new meaning of a “large codebase”. If codebase is that large, language alone can't solve all the problems. Be it compiling time, testing time, or whatever problems lar
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Clojure/West 2012 slides collected here(github.com)
13 points by edwardw 15y ago|1 comments
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Recording your brain signals with ThinkGear and Erlang(github.com)
2 points by edwardw 15y ago|0 comments
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by edwardw 15y ago
This is against HN guideline[1]:" Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. " [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The Typeclassopedia - the Scala version(typeclassopedia.bitbucket.org)
3 points by edwardw 15y ago|0 comments
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by edwardw 15y ago
What would that two books be? I'm reading the joy of clojure myself now. So far so good.
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by edwardw 15y ago
Those are mostly irrelevant to this thread. Except as a matter of fact I was an employee. A googler, you say.
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by edwardw 15y ago
Personal attacks and a sorry attitude How come? Your interpretation of what I said amuses me, sir. And the way you do it, quoting single sentence without context, seriously?
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by edwardw 15y ago
Since there are two 'why I left' in a row: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702253 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3700277 I'd like to share this essay from Simon Phipps that has enlightened me from time to time on such
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Corporations: Just Reptiles(webmink.net)
1 points by edwardw 15y ago|1 comments
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by edwardw 15y ago
1. Of course. Otherwise what I submitted ticket for? 2. I said I didn't pay attention to the links if there were no emails to remind me. Please, at least read what you reply to.
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by edwardw 15y ago
The only reason I visited my personal profile was to write weekly snippet. So no, I didn't pay attention to the links you mentioned if there were no Perf emails to remind me. I submitted a ticket from outside as an alumnus. It is a fact.
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by edwardw 15y ago
@anthonydchang No, I never received such emails. My manager and / or HR never bother. When I discovered this accidently after I left, I complained by submitting a ticket. But you know what, almost whole managements at that subsidiary (read:
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by edwardw 15y ago
> Your comment is a case in point. Anyone familiar with your story (at Google and, as you know, there are many of us who are) knows how totally skewed your perception is. Speak for yourself, would you? I'm myself a victim, unfortunate
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by edwardw 15y ago
The tech exists, which is called fully homomorphic encryption scheme. But I concur in what olalonde says, average people simply don't care that much about privacy.
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by edwardw 15y ago
Get from server through network, of course. In the meantime, peers cache "facts" using LRU replacement policy.
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by edwardw 15y ago
From FAQ: Is Datomic just for JVM languages? At the moment, yes. We have ideas for how to enable Datomic on non-JVM languages while preserving as much of the embedded power as possible.
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by edwardw 15y ago
I noticed that in FAQ, too. Since read is relatively easy to scale (simple master / slave setup), I wonder how to scale datomic on write side.
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by edwardw 15y ago
Damn, I misread webdev as webdav.