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I do not want to give up any privacy. The stasi wasn't that long ago.

It's dead because new projects aren't started in Perl unlike C.

Code of conduct section in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBU...

ECT gets a bad rap, but works. Anecdotally, my uncle went through it.

What actually made a difference, for me, was changing my work. My dad experienced this too. If you're depressed maybe you need to change your life, this is hard. It was for me.

It jelled with what I know anecdotally. Their Indian outsourcing is terrible, bad compensation, nothing close to Google or other tech companies in India. This is from a few years b…

Learn the art of writing gpu compilers. Software defined radio is another. If you find web-scraping dull don't pursue it. Life is short.

I follow the national weather service for my area (US). It's awesome they're total geeks about weather and share it. Everything else is mostly meh.

What's bad about his benchmarks? I've cursory glanced at them before and didn't notice anything in particular (used to write gpu drivers for a living).

Considering the completion rate for PhD programs, admitting a broader applicant pool would likely make it worse.

AT&T, rolled out fiber to many of the suburbs. I can't imagine switching back to Comcast, night and day.

You're right, the comparison isn't as valid as I thought, rustfmt has improved impressively since I looked at it last. 'go fix' might be a better comparison, what's the Rust equiva…

I should have been more specific by tooling. I meant source code manipulation and analysis, go-oracle and goimports are a couple. There's many more in the go community. Are they us…

I'm thinking more of difficulty in writing rustfmt compared to gofmt. There's other examples like go-oracle or goimports which as far as I know don't have Rust equivalents. How use…

Perhaps I should have said it's easier to write tooling. C++ has arguably very good tooling but creating it was difficult. For Rust and Go the example I'm thinking of is rustfmt an…

I'm familiar with Rust's tooling, not knocking it at all.

There isn't one language to rule them all. An advantage of Go over Rust is easier tooling due to a simpler language, an advantage of Rust is a richer type system. These are in oppo…

Nice phrasing, unpleasant was the feeling I was going for. Sometimes I wonder about giving up.

Some history might help. Go was created largely as a reaction to writing server side C++. I have sympathy after writing but mostly reading C++ code bases. I swore never again. I re…

That's why I said large set. I haven't thought about garbage collection enough to have any insight on it.

How do you have a large set of language features with them not interacting? In Java, serialization and generics interact with practically everything. In C++, RAII interacts with ex…

I don't find it unsettling but it's not particularly interesting. You can view epicycles as detour before Copernicus, I think that's more of the sense of what Wolfram is referring …

For one, if you take global warming seriously it's a disaster. Each immigrant from a poor to rich country increases their CO2 emissions by about an order of magnitude.