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Correct me if I am wrong: redis scalars are limited to strings and this seems to support integers and booleans. The query language is also different. So, I must conclude that something else is going on. Slashdot, is it you?.
Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:36AM (#12210243)
Fortunately, I don't see this as a big issue in Go so far because I have used it for small components connected by zeromq or http. In a way, Go is also enforcing distributed/microservice style of development since a huge monolithical/business-rules program with it seems like nightmare material.
Re:A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:27PM (#12193812)
I am a bit confused, lets suppose that TLS is broken in haskell libraries, or there is some kind of thing haskell has no libraries for and you don't want to lose time implementing it; what stops you from making a service for that task in another language?. I fail to picture a big system that is not distributed, maybe the problem of this startup required a monolithic system, or is it that a monolith project is in some ways easier to manage?.
The sense of self or the "I" is part of that stream of thoughts, that is why you can't stop thoughts except by fully concentrating in something; the intention of stoping thoughts and the self that wants to achieve something are thoughts themselves. An approach that I have found very powerful is to direct atention to nervous system activity which is an objective form of conciousness, something like the sense of touch but extended to the inside of the body (it is called kayotsarga in jainism), besides gaining the ability to fully relax at will all parts of the body it brings awareness to a whole new level.
Let's start by defining architect. Where the business model is charging for hours(consultancy) or bureaucracy is the rule; the architect is like a ming dinasty china jar next in usefulness to the scrum master. He can't really apply the principles of software quality since attributes like conceptual integrity, reusability, modularity, loose coupling and maintainability are not aligned with "picking the fad framework that average joe can be productive with and charge the client for those 20 reports instead of a reporting engine that can be parameterized, lets then use unit tests and code reviews to cheat ourselves into believing we're making quality stuff". Its different when the team is developing a product that is also the business model where resources are never enough and there is no room for bullshit, then the architect is the guy that can sketch that reporting engine that will be nurtured and improved by the team, therefore he both codes and shares knowledge.
Re:What a Digital Afterlife Might Be Like on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @06:56PM (#12133155)
Bureaucracy wants to live forever as technocracy. And maybe the ones selling genetically modified food and intra-flesh GPS want to make it more acceptable.
Subsidies were indeed popular and probably anything chavez did. Then, popular and orwellian totalitarian are not contradictory.

But lets first understand that "the poor" are not created by the rich in latin america as socialists love to say, its been more than half a century of socialist/socialdemocrat rule and its obvious that they create the poor by making them dependant on the governments' favour. The famous barrios, fabellas and asentamientos are the creation of a socialist elite that uses the filantropy masquerade to get easy money through corruption, currency exchanges, inflation, etc.