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And you're reading Hacker News why? I knew I would get hellbanned eventually for not being in the clique, but I didn't expect it from a +6 point comment. This community is a defini…

What I like about Duck Tales is its morality and ethics. Sure Scrooge is a greedy miser, but like the unquoted part of Nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech he earned every cent of it. …

> Compare Rust where, unless you have explicitly used the unsafe features of the language, all pointers are guaranteed non-nil and valid. .... The type system guarantees you have c…

> [Android] provide the isolation by creating a new user account for each app and by default apps get no permissions. That's ok, but if the app ever manages to get more permissions…

Another way not mentioned yet to get normal URLs is to just use noscript. If you block scripts from google.com then you get normal links.

The timer still exists and leaks memory until the timeout expires. For instance if you write an interactive command-line tool reading one character at a time from stdin with a 5 mi…

> The people responsible are representatives (in one way or another) of the United States of America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. I don't get this at all... Harvard fellow…

If you think you can do asyncMap in Google Go, without casts and without manually collecting multiple return values, by all means show us the code. I would find that really interes…

Even so why would you write that boilerplate code out each time? Something like this would work even better: result = src.asyncMap { |e| dowork(e) }; Except Google Go returns sever…

In IE10 the JavaScript is multithreaded... there's a separate thread for JS parsing, compiling, and garbage collection. As far as I know this is the only browser with a threaded Ja…

The real problem is the software libraries are just as hard . Take OpenSSL for example... it's almost easier to learn the crypto than to figure out the API. Here's a good one: an S…

> P4 would have to be running at over 20GHz to match what the i7 is doing on a per-core basis. Seems to me memory getting 10x more bandwidth and cache getting 8x larger probably ac…

The only actual proper thing in this whole affair was Apple's lawsuit. As Samsung was copying them right down to the shape of the charger Apple felt they had a real case. They lost…

> Sure you can. Spawn a child process ... This is exactly what I was talking about. You can't even admit facts like that Java has dynamic loading and a security model and that Goog…

> > On the other hand, there are plenty of things you can do in Java that are simply impossible to do in Go. > Depending on what you mean by "do" ... Oh, I don't know, maybe dynami…

Thanks for the help. I see now you can get the URL by using the source browser then clicking 'checkout' to get the svn checkout URL. I just wanted to check out the source, but sett…

I don't get it why they make it so difficult to get the source code. TypeScript: typescript.org click "Get the source code" click "Download" Dart: dartlang.org click "Download now"…

- Slashdot has the best moderation to show you the best posts. - Reddit has best conversation because the red envelope tells you of replies. - Hacker News has the best audience. If…

Yes. Your filter bubble won't let you know that anybody else finds it creepy. "If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

How would this be different in a different concurrency model? That was actually the point. You have the same space considerations. Being coroutine instead of native thread is just …

But remember that this is in contrast to C threads, where 64 kB is a tiny stack and 1-4MB is more common. Yeah not really. C threads normally have a fixed-size contiguous virtual m…

Why do you think this is Apple's fight? The iOS 6 comes out 5 years after the original iPhone. That's a nice round number and it's highly likely that there was a 5 year contract an…

I think this is exactly the point. You have to read the comment to get the error types (isn't compiler accessible), it doesn't list what all the possible error types are (doesn't s…

It's actually worse than that. The blog has error handling code like: if err := datastore.Get(c, key, record); err != nil { return &appError{err, "Record not found", 404} } This is…

Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he [Rob Pike] knows what he's doing. Clearly not. For one thing you just don't erase a working drive with your data on it until the …