luriel

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by luriel 14y ago
When your whole business model is based on government granted and government enforced monopolies, you have very little right to complain IMHO.
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by luriel 14y ago
See also Russ Cox's "Zip Files All The Way Down" article: http://research.swtch.com/zip
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by luriel 14y ago
Most medical research already happens in publicly-funded bodies, bit it is then spun-off and captured by big pharma. Not to mention that as many have pointed out over and over again, the main expenses of drug companies are not research, but
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by luriel 14y ago
It is a textbook case of regulatory capture . Still, abolishing patents would go a long way to allowing real competition and progress in healthcare.
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by luriel 14y ago
Actually this a well known process known as regulatory capture . Where the regulated industry ends up in some kind of symbiosis with its regulator, encouraging it to both grow and to keep competition at bay. The conflict between the regula
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by luriel 14y ago
In somewhat related news, here is Russ Cox's excellent blog post about cool hacks with the zip format: http://research.swtch.com/zip
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Search the Enron archive using Searchify's Gotank, a new IndexTank client in Go(gosearchify.herokuapp.com)
27 points by luriel 14y ago|7 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
This is a good move, any government using Oracle is wasting taxpayers money and being irresponsible and negligent with its citizen's data. One could talk of NSA backdoors, but there is no need, the security of Oracle products is laughable a
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by luriel 14y ago
If you hire a Go programmer, it probably will be somebody that deeply cares about their work, somebody who has a certain sense for aesthetic and technical simplicity, and other qualities that not common that among Java programmers.
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by luriel 14y ago
I count this as a Go feature.
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by luriel 14y ago
you can also add just after import "fmt" add: var _ = fmt.Println That way it will never complain that fmt is imported but not used. Still, I never had need for this. Once you have written a bit of code the import list remains relatively st
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by luriel 14y ago
Go does incremental compilation just fine. Nobody has bothered to add parallel compilation because building Go code is already so ridiculously fast.
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by luriel 14y ago
Many people are not looking for a "better C++", in the land of C++ it seems "better" means "more features", and some of us are not interested in more features, but in a better selection of fewer useful features. See Rob Pike's essay on this
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by luriel 14y ago
Full case folding is already in tip and will almost certainly be part of Go 1.1.
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by luriel 14y ago
> This seems like needless boilerplate: why not instead simply pass a closure over a channel that the goroutine will execute? I have never seen this technique used in Go, but it seems natural to me. (It's essentially how libdispatch wo
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by luriel 14y ago
> So what exactly do you propose? Sane and simple standards that can be implemented in any platform without requiring hundreds of man years of effort. Nothing done in the web today is particularly technically advanced, we are about the
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by luriel 14y ago
The Web 2.0 craze is leading us back to the "Best viewed with" insanity of the 90's. And is only going to get worse, with WebGL is not just "Sorry your browser is not supported, please download a different one." , but "Your video card d
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by luriel 14y ago
Here are the slides from Andrew's great "10 things you (probably) don't know about Go" talk: http://talks.golang.org/2012/10things.slide
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by luriel 14y ago
Because one of the nice things about Go is that I don't have to worry about this. Is not just unidiomatic code in itself, but it creates unidiomatic APIs that behave in ways Go programmers don't usually have to worry about. Unlike Python pr
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by luriel 14y ago
Panic() should only be used to signal either programmer error, or truly panic-worthy situations where state is so messed up that crashing is the only good option. Put another way: when you call an API correctly, it should be safe to assume
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by luriel 14y ago
Anyone using panic/recover across API boundaries to emulate exceptions should have their brains gofmt-d. But so far I have not noticed anyone doing this, perhaps because actually returning and handling errors properly is not as much of an i
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by luriel 14y ago
Well, given how hopeless it is to try to do threaded programming with Python, I guess that is not a consideration Python programmers usually worry about.
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by luriel 14y ago
The only mainstream language that has checked exceptions is Java, and it is almost universally agreed, even within much of the Java programming community, that checked exceptions cause more problems than they solve. Of course, unchecked exc
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by luriel 14y ago
In Go unused variables are an error, so you are forced to either handle errors or explicitly ignore them (by assigning them to _).
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by luriel 14y ago
Apple controls what I can install or not install on hardware that I already bought and which is mine , Apple does all it can (which is a lot) to make it close to impossible for me to run any software I have not got from them on hardware I
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by luriel 14y ago
You forgot one of the worst harms Apple has done to the tech industry: Make it acceptable that users have no control over the operating system running on their hardware, and much more importantly: what applications they are allowed to run o
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by luriel 14y ago
In Thailand you could be imprisoned if anything you say can be misconstrued as a criticism of the King. This kinds of laws that make all kinds of utterly harmless speech a very serious risk are very widespread. See also what happened to som
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by luriel 14y ago
> For heaven's sake, extension of copyright terms comes at the behest of the publishing industry. This is known as regulatory capture , and is what is to be expected once the government starts to grant monopolies: instead of competing
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by luriel 14y ago
There has been plenty of evidence about how intellectual property is actually counter productive and hinders innovation for a long time: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... And is not surprising when you realiz
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by luriel 14y ago
The simplest solution is to abolish patents, the government has no business going around handing out monopolies.

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