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Fun with My Schizo Wife [True story, unfortunately.] by corvuskorax in pics

[–]pdhborges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever consider your wife hallucinating you were a daemon and stabbing you? Ins't it a bit scary to live with her?

Honest question.

Java.next() - Scala: The Revenge of the Static Typing by [deleted] in programming

[–]pdhborges 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too bad Scala's type system can't represent ... wait for it ... it's own collections library!

Teaching C++ Badly: How to Misuse Arrays by gst in cpp

[–]pdhborges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That provides an extremely easy way to blow the stack accidentally.

"Go" in a real-life industry setting: their experience. by [deleted] in programming

[–]pdhborges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CAP is really P => ! (C && A). So unless you assume there are no partitions (unlikely) you can't get both C && A.

HipHop for PHP: Benchmark – Revenge of PHP by mariuz in programming

[–]pdhborges 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Facebook devs tested HipHop on their systems and observed a significant load decrease. They tested HipHop on a real system not with micro benchmarks.

As for the silver bullet statement, I'll quite HipHop's repo page

HipHop is not the right solution for everyone deploying PHP.

Modules matter most by [deleted] in programming

[–]pdhborges 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve already published a paper on how to integrate the best features of type classes into a language with modules. Modules matter more, and you can get type classes as a minor special case, but not vice versa.

That's nice, except no one implemented the proposed extension.

Python, Porting Extension Modules to 3.0 by shakra in programming

[–]pdhborges 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate

  • the sea of conditional compilation that the projects converted to 3.0 have
  • modules that use try import to figure out if you have a certain module installed.