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Too real. I've spent some time in Italy where, due to my broken Italian, I was very much so an introvert. People noticed it too when Americans would come by and I'd talk to them - they said I "became a different person."
Though I think it's suggesting that the Golang GC is easier to tune and configure
That seems like deceptive marketing to me. Once the pull request is merged, then you can make that claim.
Here's the open PR for Jepsen: https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen/pull/70
Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Here's the Hokusai paper: http://www.auai.org/uai2012/papers/231.pdf
And here's an implementation: https://github.com/dgryski/hokusai
For me to understand the paper, I had to go through the code to piece out the Math jargon, even though the Math behind it is really quite simple. Another way of saying this is, "I'm dumb," sure. Not gonna argue with anyone there.
Though I still think it's curious why it's easier for me to understand a concept through code than it is through Math. It's sort of reminiscent of when you first learned Algebra, your teacher would tell you to replace the variable with an easy number and work through it to understand the mechanics of equations.
I think code is an example of that - literally working through the mechanics of algorithms to understand what they actually do and how they work.
But when I look at the implementation in code it's so obvious what's going on.
~ every software engineer in the world
Anyone else realize we're the only ones who complain about this shit?
For the record, I am also a non-white male.
It's totally fair to say, "thanks rich pplz, wut do WE do?" Though there's a ton of "rich pplz" out there that don't let engineers experiment the way that Facebook does. Perhaps Google. But the vast majority of these don't, I don't think:
Just google "Kathy Sierra" and see why.
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/37f143e9e16e89d753b0e5e...
In the context of reading someone else's source code, the variable name "a" is inadequate, and I've seen it in many Golang codebases. It's like intentionally obtuse code.
Maybe I haven't read enough Go code in the wild, but it really feels like the C days. Yes, it's GC'd, and that makes a difference. Yet I can't help but wonder how much easier it is to read code from the Python or Ruby communities. I'd even go as far to say that it's easier to read code from the Javascript community.
a := newApp(servers)
https://github.com/facebookgo/grace/blob/master/gracehttp/ht...
EDIT: read my comment below where I elaborate
Revolt and rejoice!
But... if this relies on fixed-ish protocol (fixed grid & font), can't The Man Upstairs censor it just as easily?
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#design
https://twitter.com/GoogleVentures/status/606534505332154369