nicerobot

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Comment · 10 years ago
I see it as taking the copyright holder's control over their material, not taking the material itself.

In other words, if someone publishes your works for free that you would otherwise charge for access, they haven't taken your work, they've taken your control over the access to it.

Comment · 10 years ago
Call it `morc`.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you're using Terraform, why are you having problems with the interconnectedness? That's exactly the benefit of Terraform. Parameterizing all the configuration dependencies is its brilliance. Nothing I've come across is as simple and easy to use and understand while still being able to fully managing an entire infrastructure.
Comment · 10 years ago
I was _only_ pointing out, through _one_ simple example, the flaw in your conclusion of Go errors being tedious. I was not discussing other languages nor how to incorporate extensive and fluid error handling in Go to be as capable as any in other language. And since you've raised several points that weren't pertinent, it seems you simply want to disagree with me, so i'll end my side of this discussion. Have fun.
Comment · 10 years ago
Don't be "old".
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Comment · 10 years ago
If the authors are opposing advertising, why are they advertising their opinions here? These naive opinions are more intrusive to me than many targeted advertisements. To be clear, i'm not opposed to ad blockers. I'm also not opposed to some advertising. I am averse to hypocrisy.
Comment · 11 years ago
Just silly! Pioneers are more important than bringing the pioneering to the masses. We don't pioneer for perfection, we pioneer for discovery. Completely different purposes but without discovery, there is nothing to perfect.
Comment · 11 years ago
Additionally, light on dark is horrible for readability. That theme is great for imagery but it's doesn't provide valuable contrast for clearly rendering fonts. Programming docs are typically mostly text so should provide the best colors that support readability.
Comment · 11 years ago
Isn't that the "do not disturb" settings in iOS?
Comment · 11 years ago
Actors/messaging doesn't imply a remote-backend architecture. It only implies messaging and mutually-exclusive _writable_ state.

GUIs is a poor example as they are inherently single-threaded frontends so performing simultaneous actions is already often implemented utilizing message-passing to backend threads which report back to a single-threaded event-loop. That architecture can be local, backend "threads" or remote processes, as it doesn't much matter to the GUI.

With regard to in-memory persistence, again, you almost certainly would not copy data per thread. For a situation like you're describing, a Redis-like architecture is all you need with a few atomic primitives. But, again, incredibly easy to implement in Go and is certainly _not_ rocket science.

Of course, someone is going to still be using locks, but it's a diminishing number of developers that need to code at that level since there are better higher-level techniques that serve many purposes and protect against many types of errors.

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Comment · 11 years ago
Soulver is great and is what i use when mobile but I love Calca. I mostly use it in place of a spreadsheet, less as a replacement for a calculator.
Comment · 11 years ago
Just because _you_ are locked into a mentality about a meaning for // does not mean we all are. Explain to me why formatted/structured text can not appear after a // in a file. If your editor parsed the text and formatted it to look meaningful, like code, would that help?

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