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by throwawaysml 9y ago
I suspected this might get downvoted and wanted to make clear I'm not demeaning the 90% of Google developers, but I failed, so I deserved the downvote. Just to make it clear I'm aware of where my comment failed to express what I w
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
True, and a fine line which is hard to judge from the seats we sit in. But I agree that a US company cannot be associated with the Kremlin or Beijing or Riad in 2017 without consequences. Maybe in 2023. I just don't want to see a McCar
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Sure, but aren't we forgetting that Russia is like China in that over a certain size of business you are in no way able to operate unless you are in agreement or cozy (more business) with the Kremlin? This is in stark contrast to the U
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Thanks. Basically I want the sturdy laptop backpack you got from HP 10 years ago with a clever way to pack clothes and ideally waterproof bottom (rubber/plastic) so that I don't worry when having it sit on random floors at airport
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
True and the more surprising aspect is that to land a develop position at Google you need to be on top of all CS theory and fresh in memory, just to unlearn everything and use Go for unspectacular business/enterprise projects, unless y
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Is the difference to Chinese and Saudi money floating in the valley that we expect violent repercussions for anyone that opposes some aspect of the financiers' wishes? Or is it just that Russia is the most outspoken big nation that tak
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
If Java had good AOT and fast startup coupled with comparable initial GC heap sizes, it could have had a better chance at fighting off Go. Java will not go away and many teams that adopt Go also migrate to other languages at some point if t
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Past experience makes me wary to risk spending that much and be disappointed two trips later. Lifetime doesn't mean they give money back if unsatisfied, except one or two companies. Also, upping my budget didn't magically reveal v
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
And it's made thinly veiled racist agenda mass acceptable as seen in this year's CSU (and to some extent CDU) communications. I'm scared a little, to be honest, though I continue to trust the checks and balances of the system
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Am I alone in finding it unsurprising but unfortunate that all those addons to the official go toolchain are created by everyone to paper over the limitations of the Google Go implementation (which naturally reflects Google's developme
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Go is becoming the new Java from what I can tell so it's good to know enough to find your way around and patch a Go project if needed. Being the new Java, despite being less expressive, explains the uptake in the enterprise and startup
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
> Graal, Truffle, SubstrateVM, Sulong Is there a succinct explanation as to what those four projects are and how they would be combined in the hypothetical implementation you mention? The idea is to replace all of the JDK with a construc
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
I'm not a bag geek, but I know firsthand how hard it is to find the right bag, if you care about functionality more than form. For instance, I still haven't found the right carry on backpack that's sturdy, doesn't cost $
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
It's ironic since there are more content creators now if we count all the users of the silos. My theory is that it's all about convenience and network effects. So if a fully decentralized IPFS based/alike social network would
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Didn't Google try to solve that with circles. I never used Facebook or any other "social network", so I'm probably unaware of some details, but I read about circles when Google+ came out and it sounded like a solution fo
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
I know, but how come we have now people from AfD in parliament in Berlin who openly gave interviews and public talks where they proclaimed the state and existing system has to be rebooted/abolished completely? Have they walked the thin
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
tl;dr: good idea, but not applicable to many FOSS developers due to local laws. Please keep in mind that the legal complexity of accepting donations prevents many of us from doing so. This is largely a result of local laws and how the IRS e
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
When I visited the R&D center of a German car manufacturer, we were checked at reception and needed special permission to carry the devices we had with us for the presentation we were there for. If the software lead (the host) hadn&#x27
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
I know what you mean, but for this to be more widely used than Tor there is a need for me to know that nodes I operate only process stuff that won't be identified by 3rd party to sue me into a jail or financial ruin. When I say whiteli
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
For that purpose I would think optional whitelisting would make more sense. Instead of spyware lists you subscribe to in uBlock Origin, you would subscribe to a vetted, whitelist of known to be generally acceptable Orchid content. Others mi
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Yev, would you ever consider opening the software and hardware design of the vault? It seems that you could lead this and give the industry a standard way, with vendors producing the fitting hardware, and allowing others to maintain their o
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
These things are very hard to find concrete data about for outsider, which I am one of, but at least nVidia has published that they're building their new Falcon controller chips based on a custom RISC-V architecture. It's hard to
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Hah, I never understood the appeal of AARCH64 either. It's not like it's some super clean ISA or that they won't run into similar power-vs-IPC conumdrums when they start to create x86 competitive server CPUs. I've always
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
> Your other comment about NFLX makes you seem suspiciously and hilariously like a sock-puppet account so I can't actually be candid on that now. I really wondered why they didn't mention POWER at all two weeks ago in the blog
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
Speaking of NUMA, I'm glad that AMD Threadrypper will force more developers to get familiar with it, since it's the first mainstream single-socket system that uses it. It will bring it to the attention of more developers than just
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
That's cool, may I ask how you persuaded them to bring the FreeBSD port up to date?
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
BTW, the new POWER chips can run in a new endiannes mode and therefore lift the big-endian requirement, if that's a concern of any code base.
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
I don't know, I mean, programmers spend so much money and little value hardware just for brand value and such, so the money is there. But those that spend that amount of money on computers are seldom in the group of those who have an i
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
There used to be remote access offered by IBM and Uni of Oregon for open source developers to do porting work.
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by throwawaysml 9y ago
When the recent Netflix FreeBSD kernel optimization article was posted, all I could think of was why they didn't use a POWER machine for its higher memory throughput. Same would be true for SPARC, but that hardware is even less availab

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