toleavetheman

I dropped Dropbox when it was only giving me like 5GB of storage, and my Onedrive had like 1TB due to an Office 365 Home subscription. They waited FAR too long to upgrade their storage space.

I think the extra flexibility gained would be perceived as a negative. The ideal (from their perspective) is that there is only one way to do a particular thing, no matter how verbose it is. Google has recently been mostly Java (Guice, dependency injection everywhere), and has long preferred incredibly verbose code at the cost of occasional duplication.

The interesting thing about Go, that can help make sense of all its oddities, is that it was not created to assist the developer.

Go was created for businesses, not developers. The holy grail of a corporate programming language is that all individual developer personality is restricted, such that _you cannot tell from reading code who wrote it_. This is all about long-term, large-scale maintainability for massive code bases at massive corporations.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, I do not represent Google, and this is just my opinion after spending time "on the inside".

I'm glad to see Sidecar mentioned. I too live in SF and use all of these apps, and Sidecar has been my first goto for years. It's odd that Lyft and Uber seem to get all the press. When Lyft got really obnoxious with the mustaches and fist-bumps, my order of checking for rides was: Sidecar -> Flywheel -> UberX -> Lyft.

My favorite change in 0.3 isn't even in the changelog:

Startup time has been massively improved. It used to take 5-10sec to start the REPL or run a test, now it's about 0.2sec.

I have been waiting for something like this to be solved by those more capable than myself. My dream is to combine this with ZeroVM for cloud execution and LLVM Polly for automatic parallelism (and other static analysis), and to have a runtime that seemingly magically takes a simple scientific app and runs it on a huge virtual machine in the cloud.

I think this library looks great. It seems to do just enough, and browser compatibility with a small filesize is wonderful.

I almost can't believe that all of the other (current) comments are complaining about the use of the λ character. Unicode is hardly a new concept, and it is certainly not "hostile" (hyperbole much?).

In fact, as modern languages like Julia become popular, I think we will see increased use of unicode characters in coding. Julia is very unicode friendly, which aids scientists and mathematicians when translating formulas to code. For example, it supports the "element of" operator ('∈') for testing if an item is in a set. These unicode characters actually _improve_ readability in many contexts, while being less convenient to type if you're only accustomed to ASCII.

If we achieve interstellar travel, we will spread to other planets. I see no reason to assume that none of our future colonies could outlive this planet.

Do you find some kind of solace in your (unfounded) assumption that the earth will outlive humanity?

Appcubator looks like a great product, but I'm not sure I could use it. I'm a full-stack guy myself.

Thanks; link posted.

I appreciate it, and I have tried this many times. I've found that I just can't effectively do it without being able to focus on one job at a time. Each job would get less than half of me.

Very interesting, thanks! Since I also spent a few years in the game industry, I find this a bit intriguing. I contacted you through the site.