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The feed is algorithmic, but its not personalized, and the algorithm isn't directly optimizing for engagement. I believe these are the exact technical advancement the top-level pos…

Just because you want something to have a viable business model doesn't mean it does. If you want to get paid to develop open source software, I think you have a couple of options:…

I imagine that opinions such as this have influenced this recommendation: https://research.swtch.com/deps . I think there is some spirit in Go of not taking on a ton of small depen…

I agree, with the addition that closing an unbuffered ` As evidence that channels should be used rarely, and only in small scopes, consider the number of places chan is used in the…

> There are a lot of organizations who want hyperscale style servers but aren't going to start a division to begin making them themselves. How does this differ from what large play…

Contra to most of the comments here, I found a lot to agree with in this article: > You have no soul as a company at that point, you’re just trying to make money with other people,…

One aspect of Lua that stands out to me is how every feature is carefully designed both in isolation and in composition with the others. The language has relatively few features, b…

> The coordinator communicates with each worker using an improvised JSON-based RPC protocol over a pair of pipes. The protocol is pretty basic because we didn't need anything sophi…

While this is true, in the context of alpine climbing where I first heard this statement, the bold alpinists who die young are very much not beginner-intermediates. I've interprete…

I agree with many of the concerns the author raises, but I'm left with the question: Given all this, what does layering give us? It gives some deduplication, but only a crude form.…

I agree, and from the subordinate's point of view I feel having a regularly planned session lowers the barrier to raise issues early without making things confrontational. Its the …

As you said, the solution isn't the hard part. The reason that large companies aren't deploying their own solutions for this issue isn't that their engineers engineers that are inc…

There's a lot of wiggle room in "better", but there are a decent number of distros for which ~95% of the packages are built in a reproducible way, including Debian, Arch, and Yocto…

The rule that the writer should be responsible for closing a channel is a good one to keep in mind, but it is often the case that you want to launch an indeterminate number of gene…

This is good, but distributing the mining fees evenly across all lawyers will result in too low a fee for the work involved. What if, instead, the parties of the contract would eac…

Maybe I'm missing something, but my read of golang/protobuf#364[1] was that part of the motivation for the re-organization in protobuf-go v2 was to allow for optimizations like gog…

Fair enough. I agree 8x for IPv4 would be hard to swallow. In either case, having the interning wrapped up in a reusable library is great.

The uintptr / SetFinalize trick to implement "weak" references is pretty cool, but I'd be curious to hear why type IP struct { hi, lo uint64 z string } with sentinel strings like "…

My understanding was that the double fork dance was actively discouraged for any semi-modern system. The man page you link says as much in the "new-style" section, as well as https…

I think people do deserve to be surprised. Competence is not the same as selflessness. Many people routinely question whether the FBI is operating for the good of the country, but …

If the practice of ocean fertilization is illegal, how was he hoping to redeem the carbon credits?

If we're golfing: https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n/blob/master/js0n.c Appears to work the same way, though it doesn't bubble back type information. (Also, the `goto * go[ * cur];`…

Yes, but it will require a call to Verizon to enable the CAT port on the fiber terminator box in your closet. You also need to set it up properly to keep Pay-Per-View and TV Guide …

I prefer this reasoning for why people get emotional about programming languages: When someone says, "Your programming languages sucks", they're also saying, "The way you go about …

Open Congress: http://www.opencongress.org/ seems like something pretty close to what you are describing. I think its just a layer on top of the thomas.loc.gov system someone else …