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> Doing so in a structured way, more elegant than writing more parsers and compilers in C, sounds like a good idea. http://www.gbresearch.com/axe/

> Doing so in a structured way, more elegant than writing more parsers and compilers in C, sounds like a good idea. http://www.gbresearch.com/axe/

Re: your point 1 -- waiting on a mutex happens regardless of whether you're using blocking or non-blocking IO. If your program only ever makes IO system calls and nothing else, the…

> Does the CPU interrupt threads running happily on cores even when there are no other threads which want to run or which have affinity that would allow them to run on that core? Y…

Because the "HTTPS everywhere or you're a dinosaur and you don't deserve to live" hysteria forced everyone to put HTTPS even in places where it doesn't belong.

> In 20 years, the $100,000 attack will be a $100 attack (or perhaps a $1 attack) No. Moore's Law has been dead for years and will never come back. The benefits we saw in recent ye…

> Not saying it's easy, but now it's on the horizon. Not really. It's not a preimage attack. They spent several hundred dollars to find two random byte strings with the same SHA1 h…

> And what do you do when clang isn't an option, due to customer, target hardware, OS or even language extensions? Then you cannot use Rust and must settle for lack of safety. (A p…

> These days, I'm more likely to suggest Brave over FF, if someone really requires a Chrome alternative. Brave is just a reskinned Chrome. > We [web developers] owe a lot to FF, Fi…

C++ occupies the same mental space that languages like Haskell, Scala or OCaml. Compared to its real competition, C++ is very elegant and a joy to use. These languages are meant fo…

No, the problem is that Python 3 sucked, and still sucks. Twisting your user's arms even more painfully won't solve the problem, it will just accelerate users switching away to oth…

Systemd isn't an init system, it's a service (a.k.a daemon) management daemon. Its primary purpose is to restart and diagnose failing daemons cleanly. Systemd won for one simple re…

Foxconn is far, far more than just iPhones or just Apple.

> 1994 Probably not relevant anymore.

> "code is read more than it is written" Is that really true? An amazing amount of absolutely mission-critical infrastructure runs on code that was written once and probably never …

> I think python is a good example of how to be simple. I disagree. Python was a good example of that when it was Python 1.5. Modern Python 3.5 is a Perl-style nightmare of special…

The 'rewrite everything in Javascript' hysteria reminds me of the 'rewrite everything in Java' hysteria we saw a couple of decades ago. I wonder if it will end the same way. Will J…

> are there non-GCed functional programming languages? Yes, C++. For the last 18 years the C++ standard has been busy adding functional features to the language. With mixed success…

Yes, but it will be forked and maintained by other people anyways. Python 2 is forever, best get used to it.

> yet most people are capable of creating spreadsheets (and writing formulas) Not in my experience.

A malloc benchmark that doesn't measure multithreaded performance is worse than useless.

The people having 4-5 kids aren't the people who got laid in highschool. Moreover, some of the most successfully reproducing people are those who have sex once a year. 'Sex' is, by…

What they call (incorrectly) 'sex' is not mating. Having kids is strongly inversely correlated with 'having sex'. (People who are most successful at reproducing are also the people…

Venus' atmosphere is a better colonization target than Mars from every conceivable angle. I don't think they have really thought this through.