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New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 04:06:37 +0000

If you actually read his comment, I think you'll agree this was an accurate and fair assessment. I've worked with those kids who believe they're super smart and others are simpletons purely based on tool preferences.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 03:57:27 +0000

Not obvious. Whatever.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:50:43 +0000

As someone else mentioned here, the graphical merge tool in IDEA is extremely powerful. Plus keyboard shortcuts to all the main Git actions. It's overall more efficient. However I always use Git IDEA + Git CLI side by side.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:46:05 +0000

You can always get the EAP version for free. It's probably stable enough for your rarely touched Go program https://www.jetbrains.com/resources/eap/

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:51:24 +0000

Thank Garbage Collected languages. I just checked the IDEA config and found its maximum heap is set to 750 MB by default. You typically wouldn't need 32GB to run it.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:33:10 +0000

You are delusional and immature. I've seen experienced Vim/Emacs kiddies like you really struggle to keep up with my productivity levels in IDEA with JVM languages. Doing everything at the command line doesn't make you 1337 and superior. The actual typing and manipulation of text is the least complex side of development. Most of my time is spent thinking, analyzing, rather than monkeying with text. However I use Vim keybindings in IDEA and get the best of both worlds. Efficient text editing + advanced semantic parsing at a level that Vim and Emacs will never achieve.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:21:21 +0000

File -> Settings -> Keymap -> Configure

New comment by randomidiot666 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

randomidiot666 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:16:27 +0000

Yes it is

New comment by randomidiot666 in "New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:53:49 +0000

Yes ideally you would be some kind of indistinguishable Borg creature.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Challenging projects every programmer should try"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:22:17 +0000

Then make something useful, at least for yourself. A tool that helps your productivity. An emulator that you will actually play games on.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Challenging projects every programmer should try"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:04:06 +0000

What's the point of a professional violinist playing aesthetically pleasing music alone without an audience?

The point is self improvement, self education. It is incredible that some people don't understand such basic things.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Challenging projects every programmer should try"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:00:43 +0000

This is for self education as much as self amusement. Have you never done an assignment at school/college/university?

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Modern garbage collection: Part 2"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 20:27:59 +0000

I am always right. Go sucks and Java wins. (just kidding)

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Modern garbage collection: Part 2"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:32:51 +0000

>> If better GCs come out or tweaks to the algorithms are made, these configurations have to be updated. In contrast, Go programs gets these benefits for free.

> There is no reason why Java can't do the same by updating defaults. In fact, they often do.

Correct. The JVM guys always update the default GC to be the nearest to 'one size fits all'. Obviously if you've made a custom GC configuration then you want a level of tuning that Go does not provide.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Modern garbage collection: Part 2"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:18:14 +0000

Yet another person who only skimmed the article and hasn't read Part 1, which explains GC tuning tradeoffs and addresses the two examples you mentioned. Part 1 debunks the dishonest marketing from Google around Go's GC when it was originally released, and discusses the tradeoffs that weren't disclosed.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Modern garbage collection: Part 2"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 18:52:23 +0000

But he didn't say that. That's your own ridiculous emotional projection. The article contains very thoughtful criticism backed by detailed analysis. I don't think you even bothered to read the full articles (there is a part 1). The final sentence was, "Overall, it looks to me like the Java guys are winning the low latency game.", and that's a fair conclusion.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Modern garbage collection: Part 2"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:49:10 +0000

Why? Did he hurt Go's feelings? It's a programming language, not a child. I prefer his honest assessment of their relative strengths and weaknesses.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Cyc"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 06:38:10 +0000

But I wasn't talking about Artificial Intelligence or problem solving. I am talking about Actual Intelligence, specifically human level intelligence.

If we build AI we could only know if its conscious if we know what conscious is, and that is something we do not know, and perhaps will never know. It could be fundamentally beyond our comprehension.

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randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:26:26 +0000

I wrote "computation", not "arithmetic". Human intelligence goes beyond computation / mathematical logic, and you seem to ignore all of that. We haven't got a clue how consciousness works. It's a total mystery.

New comment by randomidiot666 in "Cyc"

randomidiot666 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:55:34 +0000

I clarified it in my latest reply above. The original comment asked if there is any doubt as to whether a neuron can be represented computationally. We don't know exactly what a neuron is, and are still discovering new subtle mechanisms in their functioning, and they are part of the most complex structure in the known universe, therefore of course there is doubt.