nemith

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by nemith 1y ago
When I was there (which was a while ago) almost every decision was based around PSC (Performance Summary Cycle) and it's easy to justify a good rating for a large project being open sourced. Less so to make sure it's well support
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by nemith 1y ago
Sorry I didn't mean it's not dead but it really hasn't got as much feature support. Things like LFS support got deproritized just because the internal team asking for it got a different feature. Both are EXTREMELY active but
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by nemith 1y ago
Also Facebook has a history of releasing the source code for something. Making a huge splash and then essentially doing nothing after 3 months (aka after someone gets their review). They use the code internally but fail at making sure it h
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by nemith 4y ago
Opt-out is still manual and undocumented process? I am very concerned that "own assessment" of what is a DoS means that source code is expected to be hosted only on large platform or by large corporation which is another way to sa
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by nemith 7y ago
I like to call it Quack typing as interfaces are based on behavior and not attributes.
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by nemith 7y ago
Contract is just the feature is defines the abilities of the genericized types. A contract in Go enables generic programming or as other state it "generics". In C++20 there is concepts which is very similar. https://en
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by nemith 9y ago
> This doesn't define for whom it must be backwards compatible. Breaking changes are not all created equal. Semver is a pessimistic measure. You bump the major version if a change could break at least one user, in theory. In practic
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by nemith 10y ago
GIL still exists in pypy
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by nemith 11y ago
Good points, just 25 years too late. This shouldn't be a post in 2016.
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by nemith 11y ago
If you think this is bad. Make sure you never ever ever get SiriusXM even if it's just free with your new car. They still call me almost weekly.
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by nemith 11y ago
Depending on how you look at it some platforms are already running Linux. QFX5100 runs a Linux KVM hypervisor with the traditional FreeBSD based Junos running as a guest. Same with the new x86 based SRX (SRX1500). There are more moving to