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    rw avatar rw 1 year ago | link | on: Go and Rust are bloody enemies!

    Sarcasm?

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      rbn avatar rbn 1 year ago | link

      who’ll ever know.

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        Leonidas avatar Leonidas 1 year ago | link

        cool kids switching from Ruby to a real programming language

        Kinda makes me think that. And the rest seems to be complaining that a powerful type system which allows for compile-time memory safety needs annotations.

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        roryokane avatar roryokane 2 years ago | link | on: libtwiddle - bit & sketches data structures

        What does “& sketches” mean in the tagline? What do sketches have to do with this library?

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          rw avatar rw 2 years ago | link

          libtwiddle implements HyperLogLog, which is a sketch data structure.

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            tokenrove avatar tokenrove 2 years ago | link

            The author also plans to implement count-min sketches: https://github.com/fsaintjacques/libtwiddle/tree/feature/count-min-sketch

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            trousers avatar trousers 2 years ago | link | on: Use FlatBuffers in Go

            As a sometimes capnproto user, are there any technical benefits to using flatbuffers vs capnproto?

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              rw avatar rw 2 years ago | link

              I think you’re closer to optimal than typical JSON or Protocol Buffers users. That said, FlatBuffers is still worth looking into. Maybe you can sift through this announcement thread with comments about FlatBuffers vs. Cap'n'Proto, and let us know what you think?

              https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901991

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              rw avatar rw 3 years ago | link | on: Ask L: Who's innovating in desktop operating systems?

              Please read the following overviews and come back with a more precise question :-)

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_systems#Aims_and_philosophies https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html

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                itistoday avatar itistoday edited 3 years ago | link

                Thank you, great point. (Edit: I updated the question.)

                I guess with Apple dropping the ball with Yosemite, I am keeping an eye out for alternatives. I’m hoping someone will pick up that ball and provide the world with an easy-to-use, “intelligently designed”, innovative, secure operating system that is performant and doesn’t kill your laptop’s battery life.

                Who is truly innovating in desktop Operating Systems these days, in other words?

                I keep seeing good things about OpenBSD pop up every now and then, so I was curious. Sorry for the poorly phrased original question.

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                  trousers avatar trousers 3 years ago | link

                  I guess with Apple dropping the ball with Yosemite, I am keeping an eye out for alternatives.

                  I keep hearing about apple “dropping the ball”. Yes, I too have had some problems/bugs with yosemite. I recall a few buggy early releases of previous version of OSX too though, and to my vague recollection some of those even had fewer new features.

                  I am not discounting doom and gloom. However, I personally find the OSX experience still rather far ahead of other current options on the laptop.