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New comment by duaneb in "Channels in Golang"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 09:10:24 +0000

We should really require commenting while downvoting unreplied comments. The community has gotten lazy.

New comment by duaneb in "Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in Their Teaching? (2003)"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 09:07:28 +0000

I'll be the devils advocate. Why? I can understand calculus perfectly fine without understanding how people got there. In fact, I'd argue much of what you learn before call--in the order of discovery--actively hinders understanding.

New comment by duaneb in "Channels in Golang"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 07:48:16 +0000

If anyone has a clue why this was downvoted, please clue me in. It was on topic and indicating missing information.

Edit: I really don't care how much I get downvoted, I'm going to highlight its uselessness until someone cares to justify it.

New comment by duaneb in "Channels in Golang"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 04:49:57 +0000

Well, it's basically duck typed, but without type values you can assign. Doesn't surprise me much.

New comment by duaneb in "Channels in Golang"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 03:52:37 +0000

...yet.

New comment by duaneb in "Channels in Golang"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 03:49:15 +0000

Fix for some value of fix. Go's lack of generics make the data structure offerings pitiful. Just look at heap: it's worse than c.

There is a role for a language like that, but calling it fixing c++ ignores 90% of the reasons people use c++ in the first place. In fact, id say that go reminds me most of the version of c++ that operated as a preprocessor. It's almost exactly the same template implementation!

New comment by duaneb in "Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)"

duaneb — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 00:15:25 +0000

Sure. It's also why the internet is super vulnerable to 0-days.

New comment by duaneb in "Why time management is ruining our lives"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:16:01 +0000

> The actual decision needed could be done in a couple of Slack messages between two programmers

In my experience, those two programmers rarely have a good enough understanding of existing codebase and momentum to make good decisions. Without meetings, there is little way to avoid these problems.

Programmers are good at implementation, not (necessarily) decision making.

Also, meetings only make sense if everyone is focused on decision making; this is a company culture issue more than anything.

New comment by duaneb in "Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:14:01 +0000

Wow, I never realized operators couldn't push fixes to their routers without permission. The internet is indeed a tragedy of the commons: trivial to ruin, but a Sisyphean task to fix.

New comment by duaneb in "Why time management is ruining our lives"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:11:25 +0000

In many jobs that's totally worth it—chances are very low a stranger will need something high priority from you, and people who work with you will know how to communicate.

Email is good for a lot of things, but not for expecting processing quickly.

New comment by duaneb in "World War Three, by Mistake"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:01:27 +0000

More likely, but how much more? That seems necessary to discern to make that decision rationally.

New comment by duaneb in "Ask HN: What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:56:07 +0000

Charge $10 to look up the owner of the property would probably look fine.

New comment by duaneb in "Ask HN: What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:50:33 +0000

Why is that awful? The script obviously worked....

New comment by duaneb in "Ask HN: What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:49:48 +0000

Change your name to a random hash. Should work fine.

New comment by duaneb in "“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 04:52:04 +0000

> It's not really about population -- it's about having no future, which is something a lot of people constantly worry about.

One thing the movie (unintentionally) got right was how absurd this is. It really ruined the movie to me, TBH, because it was laughably implausible. Reproduction is what life does best.

I'll obviously have to watch again for the world building....

New comment by duaneb in "Scaling out relational data models, and SQL, through co-location"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 01:22:10 +0000

That is not tautological. Interest and relevance are different things.

New comment by duaneb in "YouTube views down for channels with more than 10M subscribers, analysis says"

duaneb — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:44:39 +0000

Probably on their parent's account.

New comment by duaneb in "Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com"

duaneb — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:18:57 +0000

The comments on the New York Times seem to be high quality.

New comment by duaneb in "How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists"

duaneb — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:45:48 +0000

This is exactly the type of attitude that makes me dread the future. Why invest in technology at all?

Wires are great, honestly. Easy to debug and use. The original zero config.

New comment by duaneb in "Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue"

duaneb — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:49:14 +0000

They aren't Uber and they exist.