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wokawokaon Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently

think like the mass or think for yourself. Facebook dorks says...think like a mass.

wokawokaon Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

so...what is the "news" here? they control our news and social normality and they want to control our money now....

wokawokaon Loneliness Is Hard on the Brain

I beg to differ - I get too many "please do that, help me with that, could you..., would you...i'll pay you back". Loneliness is pure bliss because people ask me to do sh8t.

wokawokaon Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

Facebook - a place where you can share photos of your fugly children and comments of your low-meaning life.

wokawokaon I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA

Can you describe how different the operating system would be from the traditional operating system we use today for quantum computing? Broad question but any specifics you can answer....

wokawokaon Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

I'm looking forward to see a melting bridge yet again.

wokawokaon Crystal 0.25.1 released

"make even basic tasks sometimes extraordinarily difficult, or so I've heard"

That would be an understatement :-)

But it's a trade-off. You fight the borrow-checker to ensure safe code.

It's really subjective. Are you using a language for front-end/middle-tier service/back-end process, etc. etc.

Back in the day - you had a handful of people writing C code via CGI for web development.

Every good language addresses a problem.

Rust = safe code. Crystal = IMO...productivity.

wokawokaon Crystal 0.25.1 released

Godspeed to the Crystal team. Third party library means everything.

Otherwise you end up with the same problem: "cool language...now I need to bind it to a C library to do this..."

Still betting on Rust and it's ecosystem.

wokawokaon Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

Microsoft Bob

wokawokaon Why Go and Rust Are Not Competitors (2015)

MORE of these headlines instead of "Go is slower than Rust" or "Rust has more bells and whistles than Go".

I develop in both Go and Rust.

I use Go as main replacement for .NET/Java web tier...no need for install specific Java or .NET run-time library.

I use Rust when there's heavy disk reads and writes...and I know it's a nightly job which should never segfault and never finish the execution since it crashed.

GO = useful for rapid prototyping and a good .NET/JAVA middle-tier replacement.

RUST = you CARE about performance.

You can use both with FFI/C - use Go as the carrier and use RUST where the functions should squeeze every bit of performance to do something...