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ta2384428on LevelDB: SSTable and Log-Structured Storage (2012)

I just ordered the book from your recommendation, thanks.

ta2384428on Ajit Pai: How the FCC Is Paving the Way for Innovation

I find it bizarre that we mix infrastructure and regulation with politics.

American Conservative Union giving out awards to non-partisan government institution representatives strikes me as inappropriate.

*Not from the US so I likely don't understand the nuances of the situation.

ta2384428on Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

That is pretty cool, C++ has come a long way since I used it last about 15 years ago.

It seems like both languages are equally capable here, with C++ having more power and foot guns when required as usual.

ta2384428on Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

It still blows me away that people put their email address in forms, and that email marketing affects sales. I guess while they keep working, people will keep creating popups.

ta2384428on Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

If you squint a little, you'll notice that go is pretty big on not hiding complexity. There are obvious exceptions to this such as the garbage collector, and heap/stack control.

I'm unsure if the intent of not including a map function was due to this, however with a for loop such as

    for x := range ch {
       slice = append(slice, x)
    }

, it is immediately obvious there are allocations happening in the background.

The fact that map access, and slice access is not thread safe means there is no trickery going on in the background. The fact that it is not threadsafe means I don't need to worry about a lock if I only write to a map when it's created. Sure the compiler could take care of this - they have the race detector after all, but the compile speed is one of the design goals of go. I really like being able to compile in less than 1 second.

`sync.Map` however calls a function which implies there is more going on in the background.

If you follow the go mantra of share memory by communicate, don't communicate by sharing memory - handling data becomes a whole lot easier. It does allow you to share memory in case you do need the extra speed.

Like most things, all designs are a matter of trade offs. Sacrifice one thing for another. There are other languages that provide the functionality you desire - but I understand the frustration when one thing is 90% what you want.

Go obviously has room for improvement, and perhaps a native threadsafe map is one of those areas.

ta2384428on Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

https://imgur.com/a/DNpw3

Running the following code.

https://play.golang.org/p/k_rRxNAyb0i

I can assure you that go runs across all processors by default.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1At2Ls5_fhJQ59kDK2DFVhFu3...

ta2384428on Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

I'm not familiar with OMP, so please forgive me if I'm incorrect - but OMP from my quick search appears to be thread based, while go routines are much lighter weight than threads. They have their own scheduler - which like most things is both good and bad depending on what you want them for. If you use them as intended, the internal scheduler is a great design decision. This means I can happily spawn 10,000 without concern.

Additionally, combining them with the power of channels makes quick work of many tasks. Channels of course can be implemented in C++ too, but having the compiler take care of it for you with additional tools such as the race detector is very handy.

For a large set of problems, they are very nice to work with.

ta2384428on Learning Go as a Node.js Developer

https://github.com/golang/dep/releases

https://github.com/golang/dep/graphs/commit-activity

Agreed that it's a decent start, however I disagree with the lack of releases. If you look at the git history there is a lot of activity in it.

ta2384428on A Shrinking Pie? The IPv4 Transfer Market in 2017

My god, I have the privilege of paying $60/Month for 4Mbps - not symmetric

ta2384428on The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV

I had a 28/27" 4k monitor, but like the author I found it far too small (the pixel size) to use comfortably. Unfortunately I was working with legacy applications that didn't support scaling and couldn't adjust the DPI. I have no doubt it would be much nicer at 125/150%.

One thing that is certain is that people have different preferences. Certainly some people would enjoy the tiny pixels of the 27" 4k monitor at 100%.

My current setup is 2x24" 1920x1200 monitors. I have considered 3x24, 1x Ultra wide or 2x Ultra wide, but I'm not convinced I'd get the same comfort. I think that 3x 24, or 2x ultra wides would require to much head rotation to be comfortable.

I prefer the vertical break in the screen since it makes snapping windows easier. I'm starting to think that I might prefer a bit more real estate, as I often collapse the vertical file menu in my editor for a little extra room.

ta2384428on Members of congress who voted to reverse FCC web browsing privacy rule

100% correct. There is a fallacy in Australia that you shouldn't "waste your vote" on the smaller parties, despite preferential voting.

It's important to keep the vote competitive, the alternative is people stay at home because they think there is no point voting.