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by vpkaihla 10y ago
Should we come up with a language that's easy to teach for both computers and humans? A sort of generic human/machine DSL?
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by vpkaihla 10y ago
Would spacemacs work on Android?
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by vpkaihla 10y ago
> companies with 'absolutely no AGPL' policy cannot try the open source version of these DBs which puts these products behind others. Many companies have dumb policies. They are the ones that need to change.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
>Flatly, re-writing a several decade's old, matured codebase in today's flavor-of-the-week language is not a good idea. It's a waste of time and effort. That's the sort of thinking we'd benefit from having less.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
49% of US billion-dollar startups were founded by native americans?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
So python will be better in version 3 and people will move to better languages? Sounds like a win-win to me.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
No, it's not nonsense. The things you listed in there are incremental fixes, not fundamental. http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php How would you fix this without breaking most PHP code ou
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
You don't understand. To fix problems like python3 did, you have to break older code. Php7 did nothing like that, that's why the "porting" process was so light. But it also means it didn't fix any of the big things.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
The reason for that is that python2=>3 fixed several fundamental problems. 5.6 => 7 is just a incremental upgrade, whatever the version numbering tells you. Most of the PHP problems are still there.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
> It's far more than web-based IRC How exactly?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Perhaps it's slightly subjective, since I would place FreeBSD ports in between rpm and deb in terms of difficulty.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
> But why improve performance by switching to a language that's well suited to the task at hand when you can do it by switching to a language that's hip? Because your question is loaded?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
php 7 is just as fast, or a teeny bit slower, than 5. Isn't that a rather interesting result, given how the php community has claimed huge performance increases in 7?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
What's a monthly cap?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Does Scala fix the null problem?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
If we could reliably track politicians' money flows, their opinions, their comments and their actual actions in a system that's easily queriable, it might just be easy enough for the common people to be more aware of their rulers.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Perhaps the question should be rather: Why is Post::belonging_to(usre).load(&connection) an improvement over SELECT * FROM posts WHERE usre_id = 1; ? ... to which the answer is probably more obvious.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
How they got Varnish to run so slowly is indeed an interesting result :P
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
The sad Jolla tale made me seriously ponder about making a full change to Apple. I'm currently testing how an iPad Pro might work for a 95% laptop replacement.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
In what, a decade? Seriously though, this is "Handling 1B connections in a week with Varnish".
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
- In the modern world, people are afraid of XML - 95% of people still don't understand XML namespaces I guess that's one way of saying that something is too complicated :)
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Like all things in life, higher abstraction level of Haskell is not free. The price is more complex language (which many people don't have the capacity to properly learn) and less predictable runtime behaviour.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
If you think any young language can be as complicated as C++, you're trying to be cute or do not actually know how complicated C++ actually is.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
>Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years. Without changes to the code? Has there even been a language where that has been true?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
> As if with "modern" languages you would be safer. Poor new delusional kids. That's a rather amazing quip. How would I, in my mid-thirties, accidentally write a buffer overflow in Haskell or Rust?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
The old site was broken, though: all the links lead to non-existent pages.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
> Node is javascript. You may want to run the same code on client and server, and it's simpler than compiling Rust to JS. What would be the reason to do that?
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
No, the set of problems where PHP is the correct tool is rather small: 1) existing PHP codebase and 2) small webpages in need of little dynamism.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Compared to C#, it doesn't require you to run Windows in production.
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by vpkaihla 11y ago
Perhaps we should be looking at GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/ ) instead. They're supposed to provide personal liberty and many of the other benefits of crypto currencies, but without criminal security.

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