life_is_short
Re:Ask HN: Weekend wasted again
on Sunday October 23, 2016 @09:05PM (#12776211)
Start working on a project Friday afternoon and well through the night. It sets the tone for the weekend.
Dynamic Linking
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:42AM (#12761332)
I didn't know go can do deadlock detection. Thanks for this, I learned something new today.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:56AM (#12759989)
> without having to think about threads or synchronization. Just pipe data through the channel!
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but note having a channel doesn't mean one stops worrying about synchronization. If two goroutines both started waiting for data from a channel they'd be deadlocked.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:51AM (#12759954)
> provide well-thought out input and drawing primitives
This sounds like a cool idea! What primitives would you suggest?
Re:An email from Airbnb
on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:05PM (#12753519)
A newspaper and Airbnb aren't exactly the same thing. One difference is a newspaper recognizes it can't show reviews of its listings, so it doesn't.
Re:Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:56AM (#12752820)
Yeah, probably.
Now I wonder which of the job posts are 'Old Geek Jobs', for old geeks, and which are not.
Re:Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:50PM (#12748752)
I found a bug.
Job postings aren't sorted by date correctly. For example https://oldgeekjobs.com/jobs/California?page=2 shows jobs posted '2 days ago' while the front page shows jobs posted '30 days ago'.
Criticism of the democracy
Re:Shame on Y Combinator
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:19PM (#12738267)
There are great historical precedents. The first democracy, Athenian democracy, allowed only 50,000 out of 300,000 citizens to vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
Re:Postgres Count Performance
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:21PM (#12736687)
> for aggregates with variable-length per-group state, we don't have a good size estimate
Can you say a bit more why?
Re:Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:57PM (#12728113)
What's the tldr? After 1000+ words I still can't see it. I wish articles said the main point in the beginning.
Data Dive: Keeping hackers out of the bank vault
Use of this system call has long been discouraged, and it is so unloved
Reliable User Datagram Protocol
Two file descriptors for sockets
Re:A practical relational query compiler in 500 lines of code
on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:28AM (#12693733)
Ask HN: Is it necessary to say open-source software comes with no warranty?
I just looked at the list of open-source licenses. It's a long list that takes time to read and understand.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licensesIs there or can there be a license that means all the good things and none of the bad, and is under 5 words?
In NewLisp's memory management model, I didn't understand if one-reference-only limits what the programmer can do. http://www.newlisp.org/MemoryManagement.html
Does it mean it's impossible for more than one variable to refer to a variable already referenced? If yes, is this a problem in practice? If no, is this the way of the future?