But how can you show how proactive you have been in your quarterly performance review without testing out various user funnel strategies, optimizing conversion rates and paying consultants for A/B tests?
How about major religions telling us big dude in the sky is always watching? And they always claim the moral highground in everything, if not outright claiming to be the source of all morals.
Go seems to be still a bit of a black box in terms of performance/memory profiling.
On one recent project, the go memory profiler was showing about 35MB allocated while top showed memory usage at 500MB to 1GB. In another instance the performance profiler would show microseconds elapsed while the user experienced tens of minutes with no response from the program.
I really think they should consider including a function level profiler instead of just a sampler, as well as provide more insight/control over all the goroutines that are generated.
Just saying golang is better than node.js may not be saying all that much.
It would be interesting if the common availability of spellcheck turned out to obviate such reform. Technology would be retarding progress and enabling ossification in this instance.
Well english has replaced itself many times, just compare old english, middle english, Shakespeare vs now. It is evolution and english is good at adapting, but even so, in Roman times no one would have predicted English to dominate society. These things can change quite rapidly and history is not at an end by any means. And with the internet, I think the changes/evolution could be quite dramatic.
Yes, currently Chinese is the main alternative with the most population and has some of the features I mentioned. It is also great for business with many people learning it to attract some of the chinese money floating around and lots of foreigners there to make their fortunes. But just a couple of decades ago it was russian. A major war between the US and China and it might be Hindi next. Never safe to predict the future.
What I would like to see is a language that is much more succinct, less bound in grammar rules/syntax but also less irregularities and ambiguities. English could evolve into this. Latin could have too but currently it is dead. Change happens.
While I agree that language policing like you see in France or the drive for culture preservation via language in various parts of the world is tragically misguided if not actively harmful, the one thing that gives pause is that we do not have a 'perfect' language in english by any means. Learning other languages and lingustic evolution gives hope that we can trend towards better options in the future. So lets not declare english as the winner just yet.
They really should have stuck with int main. What's unfortunate is the quantum leaps they've been taking in terms of complexity to just get an app up and running on their platform. But I guess that's the only way their engineers can justify their salaries/bonuses. Same as with that horrific nightmare of an app Facebook puts out.
It's the principle of "first, do no harm". Almost nobody follows it, but there are good reasons it is the first and in many circumstances the only real piece of advice that can be given. Look up 'via negativa' as well and daoist wu wei philosophy if inclined.
Lack of clean air to breathe and rampant corruption and authoritarianism seem not very conducive to a successful startup culture. There is a huge churn of chinese money trying to find places to go and get a good roi. It is not clear that this will last though.
Also, I find it unlikely that without a free/open software ecosystem like linux or bsd they will get very far. Building a startup culture on a general computing foundation of massively pirated windows os is just not going to work.
The internet really should come with a warning, anything you say or do can and will be tracked and stored and used against you in a court of law (or guantanamo)
Yeah, turning up for an internship and telling the manager I did not have a phone and he'd have to email me and wait like everyone else was fun. No internet at home either so I'd go to the local library to catch up. It was the most carefree period of my life. Sadly circumstances changed and I changed with it. A few years later, I faced down immense pressure from co-workers to get on whatsapp. Caved after sometime but regretted it near immediately and deleted whatsapp when I quit the job.
These days I feel the advantages of a smartphone outweigh the downsides. Still hate phone companies though and hope they get disrupted out of existence.
But those probability models are really far removed from real world/human experience. No human is going to claim a leopard skin sofa could be an actual leopard for example. Not gonna be even a little confused.
There is just a ton of information and context the computer probability models do not have. They can use all the big data they want, but are capturing only a very thin slice of real world information.
The 94% success rate is in made up, limited tests. Real world, they fail constantly in weird horrific or laughable ways. See any Microsoft AI public demo ever. It's like the self driving car claim of millions of miles without accidents, except that humans took over anytime there was a chance of one.