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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
What, you mean you don't live in California?? Get with the times, gramps! Internal combustion engines, are, like, totally last century.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Congrats, you've just reinvented exceptions, except manually coded and prone to bugs. Hope you're proud of yourself, lol.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> building database backed web applications where nils are simply unavoidable without some extreme over engineering or awkward idioms Say what? Adding a 'NOT NULL' to your database fields is a no-brainer.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> July 18, 2008 ZAO Begun Not true, this deal never went through due to anti-monopoly regulations.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
The JVM and CLR suck balls. They put in huge amounts of effort into things that don't need solving, and the things that need to be solved they do in the most roundabout way possible. What we _really_ need is a sandboxed VM for running
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Thought experiment for ya: > Facebook to ban homosexual hookup content How about that, eh? Funny how a simple change of political platform will U-turn your support of so-called 'free speech'!
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
No child learned anything useful in Minecraft. It's better than Candy Crush (no overt addicting psychological tricks) but ultimately the same kind of waste of time. No child ever grew up and said "gee, how great it is that I spent
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Adult interests are a no-brainer in the same way. "Figuring out your interests" isn't the hard or useful part. The hard part is changing your default (usually harmful) interests into something useful and productive. That invo
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> something that learns your interests It's not rocket science, a mole rat could figure out that kids want to play video games and eat candy all day long.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
"Edutainment" sucks donkey balls. One of the things I'm forever resentful for is the way my life was ruined by not learning things in a structured and rigorous way in childhood. Re-learning (and learning to learn) in adulthoo
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
The cognitive dissonance required to believe that C++ templates are 'monstrous' while Lisp S-expressions are awesomely useful and productive is enormous. C++ templates are far from user-friendly, but they're literally ( lit
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Behold, I present you this fucking monstrosity It's just a Lisp-like language with a slightly different syntax for S-expressions. Ugly, like all Lisps, but nothing 'monstrous'.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
There is zero benefit to using Rust vs. C++ in a high-performance and memory-safe network server. C++ is better in every way you could think of. (Rust is good idea, but about 10 years immature. Come back in 2029.)
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> there is no way to guarantee memory safety. Absolutely not true for C++. The language was invented to guarantee memory safety, like Rust was. (The fact that people ignore the safety features when coding is irrelevant, people liberally
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> Microsoft already has an operating systems business in Windows. Windows the OS is gonna die sooner or later, it's a question of time. Windows the legacy application API layer is probably gonna stick around forever. Linux kernel +
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> Java is usually within factor of two No. That's on synthetic benchmarks. Run a real server and you see that Java shits its pants while a C++ service is running rings around it. That's because memory/cache fragmentation a
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> CICO is the default position CICO is demonstrably bullshit. Vodka and Coca-Cola have the same number of calories, but vastly different effects on a person's metabolism. Just compare a vodka binge drinker with a coke binge drinker
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> They never are, because if this did happen it would have massive implications for our understanding of the human body. It would require us to be wrong about a lot of things. Yeah, welcome to medicine. If you've ever encountered th
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> are then overwhelmed with work No they're not. Most are doing pointless non-work (or negative work) because businesses need to show 'growth', usually by inflating head and report count.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
I've been coding C++ for 15 years and I've never seen a use-after-free in the wild. (I've seen lots of other bugs and security problems, but not use-after-free.) Use-after-free is a C thing, not a C++ thing. Granted, C++ make
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
Don't know about you personally, but normal human babies certainly aren't at all like animals. The sheer, mind-boggling rational and learning capacity needed to learn highly symbolic and abstract things like language and arithmeti
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
So what? Since when is 'emotion' is some sort of validation of personal worth instead of a condition you need to learn to live with?
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron Any sane person with half a brain hates Electron. (Not that there are any good alternatives, but still...)
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
Eh? It reads like a book translated into Chinese. It's probably one of the most not-Chinese Chinese books you can read.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
The extra CPU load for our balancers (nginx) didn't translate into any benefits for the user in performance or user experience. We ended up spending CPU cycles for no benefit. Basically, HTTP/2 is tuned for a very specific case of
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
Neither is the parent comment.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> Better No, http2 is not better. We actually did the tests. We're not quite Google-scale, but having to handle tens of thousands of requests per second put us in the 'high load' camp.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> If someone becomes addicted to a substance Are you mad? Nobody suddenly becomes 'addicted'. Addiction is something you do willfully and deliberately to yourself. Addiction is not a disease, it is a form of self-harm.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> Get something done and working, even if performance sucks. Often if "performance sucks" then it isn't done and isn't working. Performance is a client requirement like any other.
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by otabdeveloper2 8y ago
We actually compared stock lua to luajit in production, for something with high load and serious performance requirements. The difference turned out to be no big deal, less than x2 in speed. The real performance killer seems to be garbage c

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