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New comment by andrewvijay in "GNU Guile 2.2.0"

andrewvijay — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:48:41 +0000

Why are those brackets there in the syntax? What's the need? It looks hard to read when the programs are bigger. Is there any super advantage to it?

New comment by andrewvijay in "Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record"

andrewvijay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 06:50:13 +0000

Responsibility.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record"

andrewvijay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:11:47 +0000

Yeah the congress has to be gone for good. Also the current govt! They have the highest no of criminals in the parliament now. Its not even up for debate. They need to be weeded out.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record"

andrewvijay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:09:53 +0000

They are not the prime ministers now. The context that we are talking here is about the current govt. If the previous govts had lots of wrong doers then it doesnt mean the current govt doing the same is okay. Get your priorities straight.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record"

andrewvijay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 04:40:28 +0000

did you not read the word 'was' ? Im not saying he is a mass murderer. Im only saying he was on the case for long. Your insecurity about this only makes me even more suspicious.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record"

andrewvijay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 04:26:05 +0000

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are some honest players coming up. We'll see if they are really honest in a few years.

New comment by andrewvijay in "In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite"

andrewvijay — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:53:24 +0000

Of course they did. It was said to remove corruption, stop black money and stop terrorism. Just emotional non sense and fake hopes. It shut a lot of people's mouths as they labelled the opposers as anti national. There was a lot of online abuse to netizens as well. Still is.

They efficiently managed to pull off this massive failure without widespread anger.

Words can do a lot of damage than weapons. Gandhi used it for uniting people into a good cause and this guy uses it for his own fantasies.

I'm glad the veil is coming off though. People are disgruntled that it's just talk and no work.

New comment by andrewvijay in "In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:19:25 +0000

Surely you must visit India and say that after a week as one among the citizens and not as a white tourist.

New comment by andrewvijay in "In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:15:52 +0000

They simply didn't care. They cared about a number of elections and falling reputation of Narendra modi. Nothing else.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:40:20 +0000

I'm sorry we never used Scala.it was a pure Java code base.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:50:08 +0000

sure. Never denied. But we are breaking apart that java code part by part. The docker build size is also very small as mentioned in the article. Our app involves lot of bandwidth so we good with smaller containers.

New comment by andrewvijay in "What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:35:04 +0000

"How do programmers fix these problems? They don’t. They pray." :D LOLed at this!!

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:24:43 +0000

Its not go code fully. Its java that takes 3 mins. Go takes very less time like 3-4 secs. Multiple smaller services so we compile only what we change.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:22:54 +0000

java ~ 3.4 mins, go - 3-4 secs :D

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:22:06 +0000

3 person effort for 4 months. Compile time was just one of the advantages though.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Making the move from Scala to Go"

andrewvijay — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:37:02 +0000

Really well written. We have a similar story where we re wrote parts of our Java code in go and the build time has reduced from 15m to 3.6m! Coffee break to reading a small medium article.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets"

andrewvijay — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:04:41 +0000

Thank you

New comment by andrewvijay in "Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company"

andrewvijay — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:10:45 +0000

Same here. Good one

New comment by andrewvijay in "Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust"

andrewvijay — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 05:20:57 +0000

Im sorry but I find the parent very correct here. The headline is hype based. The README shows no signs of benchmarks or comparisons to define its acclaimed speed. Also mentioning an upcoming feature in the headline is not something people would prefer. Its still okay as its open source and people can do what they want. But to be taken seriously, it needs to be as realistic and true as possible.

New comment by andrewvijay in "Rax – A universal React-compatible render engine"

andrewvijay — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:46:45 +0000

Looks okay but what does it offer more than other react clones