skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did some of the go benchmarks on the lunch-break, I used standard 'go build' for the go results, and "go build -compiler gccgo -gccgoflags '-O3 -march=native'" for the gccgo results.

The compilers where : Go 1.1rc, GccGo version 4.8.0 20130502 (prerelease), on an Arch Linux 64-bit system, Core i5

binary-tree.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m0.932s
go-1.1rc1: 0m1.835s

binary-tree-freelist.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m0.165s
go-1.1rc1: 0m0.307s

chameneosredux.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m10.163s
go-1.1rc1: 0m5.620s

fannkuch.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m44.533s
go-1.1rc1: 0m56.389s

fannkuch-parallel.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m26.525s
go-1.1rc1: 0m27.855s

fasta.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m1.126s
go-1.1rc1: 0m1.250s

mandelbrot.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m30.004s
go-1.1rc1: 0m30.537s

nbody.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m11.423s
go-1.1rc1: 0m12.620s

pidigits.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m7.333s
go-1.1rc1: 0m2.321s

spectral-norm.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m12.259s
go-1.1rc1: 0m13.389s

spectral-norm-parallel.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m3.142s
go-1.1rc1: 0m6.695s

threadring.go
gccgo-4.8: 0m37.421s
go-1.1rc1: 0m9.800s

Overall I'd say Go did better as in the instances GccGo won (although more numerous) it was typically with a small margin while on those GccGo lost we had larger margins.

Overall Go 1.1rc seems to have improved quite a bit from my previous test (1.0x) unless my memory betrays me.

Note that these are far from all the 'computer language benchmarks game' tests, only those which I managed to get done during lunch break, and as such they may skew the results compared to a full benchmark comparison.
Just an idea: what of both options improves the conversion rate the most ?
Um... It's a 5 year old article. It wasn't a killer app then, and its not now. In 99.9% of users minds, "cloud" is not equal to "file synchronization". File Sharing is more apropos.

Also, how about spending a few synapses looking at all the things he got right?
What about the system that was at work in communist Poland (and other USSR sattelites, I believe)?

There was obligation to work, unless you were sick. You could choose your trade, and if you were lazy/stupid/handicapped you were offered job that weren't demanding. Salaries were centrally planed, as was prices. The end effect was - less than 1% unemployement, huge drop in efficiency, no creativity boost to speak of.

I wonder if BI experiments suffer from observer bias - if the experiment was going bad it would be stopped, or at least people participating may think it would be. It's usually small community so they know who isn't working, and they can influence him.

If you were to introduce BI on huge scale, in a way that people take it for granted, I think the results would be much worse (and much more realistic).
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Ah, no, I do mean to target the already employed people that want to create their own jobs but cannot take the risk due to having no other source of healthcare and no other way to pay for their children's education. I think there must be some group of people that would do their own startup but for needing healthcare.
Sketch looks nice, but seems like more of an Illustrator competitor than a Fireworks or PS replacement. Also, how does it handle PSD import. PSD is pretty much the standard for layered image sharing and FW opens PSD's near-perfectly.
I see more people writing about how they are using Illustrator to design sites now than Fireworks/Photoshop. Claiming that it helps design responsive sites better/more intuitively.

I haven't used Fireworks for years. Once you are proficient in Photoshop, I rarely found a reason to open Fireworks even given all of its benefits.
From the looks of it, real world SPDY performance increases are non-existent for most websites due to how they are organized and served.

You have to really change how your website gets served (at the cost to non-SPDY users) to get an increase in performance. Which usually ends up not even being 25%.

From what I've been able to gather, especially with little to no reports of any real-world benefits (I've only seen criticism of "bad" tests from SDPY supporters, but at the same time no one has posted a "good" test), I have to say SDPY is turning out to be hot air.

I'm hoping I'm wrong.
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This just looks like another generic meaningless sticker that people stick all over their laptops.

If you really want people in coffeeshops to approach you try something more personal and direct. "I'm xxxx. I build websites/applications, feel free to say hi,let's chat!" or whatever.
Hopefully someone from Adobe is able to comment on this news.
Even getting logs is luxury in many cases. I found it better to write 'fail fast' code. Module in that example should fail with reasonable error message, if it was used incorrectly.
I have a mug etched with a picture from that movie (by way of Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good): https://twitter.com/silentbicycle/status/299278899886579712 :)
Designing interfaces usually. It's a mixture of the vector and rastor editor and has a really simple to use UI. I'm mainly a developer but I could pick it up pretty quickly once the designers showed me the basics. Powerful but simple to use tool.
Often times I feel like I'm in the minority, but I rarely use Fireworks for anything. Perhaps I'm just more comfortable in Photoshop, but I often found that Fireworks didn't fit my workflow.

I've read a ton of articles on how/why I should use Fireworks for web design. Perhaps somebody could inform me on what I'm missing.
Well it's possible that in many cases 0.2 is created by the same person as 0.1.
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I use to draw interface layout and slices for my games, to create art that mix vectors and bitmaps, to create sprites and pixel art, to rapid prototyping of game art, and nothing beats it when it come to design web stuff.

I am game dev, all the mentioned things are in that context.
I think the OP was talking about replacing Fireworks' excellent vector editing abilities.
I really like the general out-of-bound work feature, however I have a hard time imagining a use-case that is not garbage-collection, and that wouldn't be better solved by having a background worker process. Can anyone suggest some situations?
Agreed. Or what Github did with their t-shirts, where it said, "github.com/________" and you filled it in with a sharpie.
Clause order matters.

--

-module(ping).
-export([ping/2]).

ping(N, Pid) ->
Pid ! ping,
receive
pong ->
ping(N-1, Pid)
end;
ping(0, _Pid) ->
ok.

erlc ping.erl
ping.erl:10: Warning: this clause cannot match because a
previous clause at line 4 always matches
Logging everything != debuggable
>>Because it can be extrapolated...<<

How can we extrapolate from a single data point? We need 2 points for any kind of line.

>>Were I to have gotten a result that suggested that GCCGo was markedly better along some dimension...<<

Maybe you would have gotten that result on a different program?
I agree this is getting old.

Enough with the solar power hype machine. Give it a break. Show me something with a "buy now" button or go home.

Seriously, 20 or more articles in the last year? All with some incredible breakthrough? Enough already.
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If you're using the pointer tool, hold down [cmd] on a Mac or [ctrl] on Windows and click on something in the layer you want to select.
> Also there are worse things in the world than having to have that discussion with your kid.

The rest of your post is totally valid, but I think the above is a big take-away for those of us who don't abuse our kids. Parenting is in large part discussion, and some of the more important discussions are about uncomfortable things.
Quite the opposite, America was founded on the latter. Only recently has the American dream been referred to as joining the stable middle class.
In other news, we have recently discover that all tech gurus are human too, hence fallible

We martians are infallible, and we are very surprised at this human weakness
This doesn't mean the software cannot be used anymore, right?
Just because someone is a professional online ranter it doesn't mean they are always right.
I think GP knows that and is just surprised that it doesn't support HEAD.
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It's definitely a Fireworks replacement: slices export, CSS export, etc. It functions like Illustrator in the way that it uses a board (group of assets) rather than a limited canvas (a single asset), but it is not a software for doing illustrations or whatever you call what Illustrator does (not native speaker here, obv).

Edit: it does @2x automated exports too, for instance. Quite handy for iOS coding or responsive design.

I've never had to open PSDs with Sketch, so I can't tell. If you have any question, feel free to tweet their account on twitter: I hear they are reactive and very friendly. And definitely close to developers and designers: a lot of the features added this year have come from user suggestions. Can't tell the same story with Adobe...
If you are working, do you necessarily want to be bothered?
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I recommend:
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and Why Things Fail (Ormerod)
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User Interface design. I've tried pretty much every tool out there for UI design but I keep coming back to Fireworks.
The best way I've found to make rounded corners in Photoshop is by using the round rectangle vector tool. It's relatively new, so you may not have tried it.
A minute of googling and you can find a direct download from other databases, for instance: http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/bib.php?m=15 . But yes, that's awful that Google is blocking this stuff -- in my country it is even entirely blocked becuase "Google Play does not offer books yet".
Yes but no, in many cases you do not want to fail fast and loudly. If a corner case in a minor module crashes all the pages of your app, you better fail silently, and log.
I know that bashing Heroku is popular this days but seriously i don't like what you did.

I'm not a fan of your way of getting users by pointing some non-objective figures and saying hey we're faster & better than the competition.

Seriously, you should benchmark and say "we can do this, this and this", and let your users decide if you're faster, better.. because doing it in your way, is just ugly and not fair.

Btw, I like your design.
You mention redis on your site, but there is no redis in the pricing.
the definition of "bothered" can vary. If it's my next project, I wouldn't consider it a bother. I would consider to buy one if I worked from coffee shops.
Why learn from the guy who made the mistakes when you can learn from the guy who didn't?
Good to know that nginx supports spdy out of the box since 1.3.15: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
It is! But it is vector only which may or may not be a concern. And it doesn't import or export PSDs or AIs so if you live embedded in Adobe workflow it probably isn't for you.
with more offers?

yes!
Fireworks is/was also important in the workflow for flash professional. What does this tell us about the future of that program? Personally I think it's a stupid move of Adobe. They have been cashing on it for years, with very small updates for big prices. Why stop cashing now ?
You usually get logos of this type "for free!" when you purchase an SSL certificate, and the SSL providers highlight it as some sort of competitive advantage. It's completely ridiculous.

We put a padlock image on our payment pages even though it does absolutely nothing for security, but it might help the conversion rate, so there it is.
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anyone doing rent a coder should follow some oldie but goodie advice:

create a few small tasks to get started. rent out a few coders for a week. make all of them code the given tasks. pick the best quality and continue.

you will get good quality out bad, whatever you prefer... And waste little money.

the only flaw is if all the coders who are participating are not the quality you wanted.
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Indeed. For years we had to use workarounds and various cheats. Having different radii was a pain in the ass in PS, but a breeze in FW.
Right-click to get a list of layers under your pointer. Or you can set a preference that click on an element automatically selects that layer in the layer palette. This makes you cry?
In theory it can be used for any kind of work that cannot be (easily) passed to another process, and that would block all threads. Another use case that I can think of is generating garbage collection statistics. But perhaps the community can find more use cases, we made it general so that people can be creative. :)
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Well, I would think that ridding oneself of naïveté would be a good first step. Many intellectuals refuse to acknowledge the political climate they operate within, believing their efforts to be "above" it all. While I do agree that intellectual pursuits _are_ above petty politics, the fact remains that the politics aren't going away.

Take a page from the people in power: surround yourself with the protections necessary to prolong that power. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but it is.
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But, they don't have a way to track your bitcoins. They can see how much is in each address, but they do not know whose address it is, etc.

You said the government would need to make all wallets that are not registered with some central authority illegal. That would be the same as you paying someone in cash if cash was made illegal. You would be doing something illegal in both situations. However, what is the government going to do about it if they do not know who you are?

Not to mention that making cash illegal would be a highly political issue and quite unpopular due to concerns with privacy, etc. The same would apply if the government wished to request some centrally controlled management of people's bitcoin account.
This is a great (and virtually free) way to pick up business. I don't see a downside.
1. Does nginx spdy module is enabled by default?
2. Sometime ago you said that Ruby 2.0 has some bugs you suggested to wait for next Ruby 2.0 patch release. Is this still the case?
> Do the founders of Instagram deserve their success?

no! good for them - but I don't see any way they 'deserved' it
Oh, as in FroontPage. Totally need this.

Edit: Sorry for flippancy. I sense the challenge of the over-complete demo. Eventually, the design requires interfacing with developers who are then skewered for not getting it done as fast as the drag and drop mock-up.

It's probably not horribly worse than taking on an HTML5 template from your favorite template garden along with a laundry list of breaking customizations... I find it pretty quick to take the static images and build out without the baggage of more opinionated style work already "complete"
This article was from the Physics Today memorial issue on Feynman iirc. When I read it at the time, I seem to remember that it was also the weakest article in that issue. (It was before Thinking Machines crashed and burned.)
If your codebase is a bit more complex than hello world, a single helpful error message is hard to do right, because if you have a crash it should mean something unknown happened that you cannot fix at coding time. So it is better, in error messages, to not try to guess what is the problem and just state the wrongful facts. But then only the log and the traceback will help.

No wonder most people just Google error messages.
I like Fireworks for rapidly prototyping designs. I don't really use the slice/export feature, but for prototyping before committing to code, Fireworks works perfectly for me. I've been using it for over 10 years now and have become extremely quick and comfortable in it.

Photoshop never felt right to me for doing prototypes that eventually iterate into an actual design spec. I need to crack open Photoshop a few times a year. I'm in Fireworks almost everyday. I'm sure a lot of it is my muscle memory, but for many of my graphic and photo editing tasks, Fireworks is so much faster.

Unfortunately, Fireworks has become less intuitive as its evolved and I suspect it's lost a lot of its luster to new users. Even though I'm only using Photoshop a few times a year, I still need to keep it around.

I suppose this change by Adobe will force me out of an old habit, but I'm looking forward to exploring some non-Adobe options.
Oh cmon. Why can't programming be just fun. Why this obsession with great programmer and expert coders and the likes. Just pick a problem and hack away. Most importantly, have fun.

Every week I come across at least 10 articles telling people about what makes a great programmer. Sometimes its test code, sometimes its some concoction of agile or xp etc, other times its about functional and oop.

Let it rest guys. Just go and hack.
I don't really like this approach. Don't do web design in Illustrator, do it in HTML5 + CSS3. Sure, it might take a little longer at first, but the time saved over a longer time frame makes it worth it in so many different ways.

Instead, graphics software should be used for elements in the layout rather than the layout itself.

It turns out that positioning is quite orthogonal to colour. Borders are orthogonal to textures. Sizes are orthogonal to form design. Not entirely, but that's, in the first instance, how they should be formalised before further dependencies.

It is in combining them that we find beauty. And CSS3 is a far more suitable way of doing just that in a considered fashion than Illustrator could ever be.
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Why is cartography important?
I'm curious of what the conversion funnel would be from people inquiring to becoming new clients. Someone should test this.
I would simply agreed with the article if I read it at that time.

On the topic, seems like Microsoft produced quite a lot of products that simply ahead of its time. Some of the product pitch and description quoted in the article may sounds stupid at the time, but now, it is simply is a necessity.
That little rant seems like some significant effort and attention. That said, Sublime clearly isn't the editor for you, but it can be invoked from a command line, which I use every day.
Would this sticker be visible on a black thinkpad?
Sure, but in the bitcoin case, you'd require both parties' wallets to be unregistered. It would require a legal and an illegal network of wallets (since the government can't track the illegal ones), but whenever a transaction was made where one of the two parties was an illegal wallet, the legal party would be on the hook for it (as it would be transacting with an illegal wallet).
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I'd love to see a 'phusion passenger for background tasks'. Managing large amounts of resque workers is a pain.
Not immediately, but once a software product is killed, you won't get updates for future Operating Systems, no security updates, no support for new file formats ... eventually it just dies a death of time decay.
1. No, but you can easily enable it by yourself by choosing option "(2) I want to customize my Nginx installation. (for advanced users)" in passenger-install-nginx-module. Arbitrary Nginx configuration is fully supported. We're going to enable SPDY by default in a future versions.

2. Yes. Phusion Passenger 4 fully supports Ruby 2.0 so it doesn't prevent you from using it, but you may run into Ruby 2.0 bugs, e.g. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8100. We recommend staying with 1.9.3 until the next Ruby 2.0 patchlevel, but the choice is yours.
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herrherr, don't worry they're legit. I know the founders,and they build great tech. I'm very excited to see their new product in the wild.
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That is a great suggestion, and it has actually been on our minds of a while now.
Many of the attempts that had been made, especially at Microsoft, were also just new versions of existing apps with some kind of syncing built in and a higher price. Office Groove is an example. Office doesn't need to have a DropBox built into it, it just needs to be Office. But if you've got an architecture astronaut in charge of the project, then they are going to want to use the position to build a reputation for being an innovator rather than just getting things done.
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if you see a fun project but underfunded, send out a note saying your hourly rate, approximations, and offer to review deliverables on a weekly basis.

most people don't understand the costs and what you get for $100...
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It's May 2013. What's the next big thing?
Can we agree last one was Vine? What's the next big thing (yours or not)?
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Our new vector drawing app, WebCode, is a nice replacement for Fireworks: http://www.webcodeapp.com/

It generates CSS, JavaScript+Canvas and SVG code from your drawings in real time and can also import PSD documents.

The generated code works great on both Retina and non-Retina displays. You can even preview how your drawings would look on Retina displays directly in WebCode. It inherited a lot of things from PaintCode (our app for Mac and iOS developers), which makes it very nice for user interface design.
Because success generally changes things, while mistakes generally don't. You can't clone a previous success exactly, because its presence alters the environment from the one in which it was initially achieved, and you have to account for that. You essentially have to show the same sort of creativity as the original success showed, and thus you haven't really learned much.

By contrast, things that were mistakes in the past tend to still be mistakes in the present. Usually they continue to be mistakes in the future as well. That's something you can really learn from, as you go through the creative process toward success that you were going to have to go through anyway.
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Fireworks is the only Adobe product I use religiously. I never understood why it didn't take off with the web design world. I believe it to be the most intuitive of the bunch.

Simple things like copy/paste work like they should, and whereas PS might be more robust, it takes 2-3x more clicks to achieve what FW can do in just a few.
Sublime is more for software development. It sounds more to me like you're needing to edit config files and such. In that case, look no further than vi/emacs. They fit your needs. If you're looking to do development of anything more than a quick Perl/Python/Ruby/Bash script, then you might want to consider a development environment... which Sublime fits perfectly. For editing my apache.conf, I use Vim.
Thanks for a good comment. Failing fast is great. In this case, since null was returned, the whole call failed gracefully (returning an error code to the calling party instead of simply throwing an exception).

The key point though: however the problem is detected, you need to have enough information to help you answer the question "Why did it fail?". You can add information in an exception, or in traces/logs, as long as you can tell why it happened, not just that it happened.