calambrac

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Comment · 17 years ago

The Worlds concept, as far as I can tell, is actually more general than STM and what you described

Where in my comment did I describe Worlds in a limited way? I just gave one small example of one possible application of them, in reply to a comment specifically about their relationship to transactions.

Comment · 17 years ago

You're missing the point. Here's the basic transaction paradigm for remote resources:

    try:
        remote_resource.start_transaction()
        #dostuff
        remote_resource.commit()
    except e:
        remote_resource.rollback()

How do you do the same thing when modifying a local variable? You might try making a copy, modifying that, and then assigning back, but that's boilerplate, and it's easy to get wrong. Worlds are a more primitive mechanism that would be baked into a language, such that building a generic transaction api for local actions on top of worlds would be trivial. The fact that it could look exactly like the transaction api that you currently know and love for remote resources is a feature.

Comment · 17 years ago

Dumping the current state with deepcopy is probably prohibitively expensive for real world use. Toss in some copy-on-write, and I think you've got something simple and usable...

Comment · 17 years ago

Don't worry, my comment was intended to be fun. Apologies if that didn't come across.

Comment · 17 years ago

Standard British usage is punctuation inside only if part of the quotation itself

The period is a part of the quotation itself.

Comment · 17 years ago

Ignoring that it's not actually a sentence:

3. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/

Comment · 17 years ago

While we're being pedantic assholes:

I was with him until he said, "I could care less."

Couldn't, dammit, COULD NOT. This irks me to no end.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=damnit

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dammit

Comment · 17 years ago

He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple, honestly.

Comment · 17 years ago

s/ice cream/samsara/g

Comment · 17 years ago

I have developer sandbox access, but I haven't seen anything about this rollout, nor have I gotten any invites to hand out. If/when I do, I'd be happy to share a few here.

Comment · 17 years ago

So you're saying your mind isn't blown? Hmm, might have to start shaving my head...

Comment · 17 years ago

as far as I know they already are for some categories.

The fact that CL is already doing the thing that Godin just descended from the sky to tell us CL should do is, to you, evidence that this isn't 'unbelievably weak'? Will you start reading my blog if I promise to fill it with gems like "What if Google started matching ads with searches?" or "What if Amazon started up an affiliate program?"

For the record, I think Spolsky can be pretty unbelievably lame, as well. People have been talking about how CL should monetize for years.

Comment · 17 years ago

Gosh, all that sounds amazing. Let me blow your minds, though: what if CL cost two dollars?

This is unbelievably weak. Godin's not exactly on a hot streak right now, is he?