dmaz's comments

On: I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years

[dmaz]

It also prints to the log upon starting a 32-bit server.

On: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

[dmaz]

For Linux the script is doing "if chrome, else if firefox". Better to use xdg-open.

[davidgomes → dmaz]

So it's looking for Chrome, a closed source browser that I'd never use, instead of Chromium. Too bad.

[sherbondy → davidgomes]

Seems like you can use any browser you'd like by going to: http://localhost:8833/

once the server is up and running.

[davidgomes → sherbondy]

Thank you, that's cool! How can I kill the server, though?

[jurjenh → davidgomes]

  light server stop

if you look through the script file, it has a series of options.

  light table
  light server start | stop | restart
  light update [version]

but as far as I can tell it always checks for updates first and will install them before it checks any of the arguments passed.

[batista → davidgomes]

>So it's looking for Chrome, a closed source browser that I'd never use, instead of Chromium. Too bad.

TMI.

You are of course free to use or not use anything you like, but the above sounds entitled and self-centered. At this point, who the duck cares if YOU are "never gonna use a closed source browser"?

It's a post about a new editor in a pre-pre-alpha stage. Something like "Seems to be requiring Chrome. Why such a restriction?" would be far better, no entitlement, no open/closed source zealotry, not tied to specific personal preferences regarding source license, etc.

On: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

[dmaz]

Skimming through the page, Amazon is going for a landgrab too with 76 gTLDs. Interesting to see how the major web player prioritized this. Microsoft went for 11 highly relevant gTLDs and Facebook for none.

[TazeTSchnitzel → dmaz]

.azure is a very nice idea for a TLD. If they got that, I suppose azure apps could get .azure domains for free.

On: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GH...

[dmaz]

Go can be debugged with gdb > 7.1 and is profiled with pprof.

On: Coding style and undoing indentation hell

[dmaz]

Sure, goto was abused, but it's no worse than (or even better than) using continuations or using break and continue.

[_wwz4 → dmaz]

Any of those mysterious jump-to-somewhere-else code features resemble goto. Not that I don't think they clean up some nesting issues, but they're pretty much the same thing as goto.

On: Why I Left Google

[dmaz]

I do like Python but haven't used it for anything more than a few thousand lines.

The dynamic nature puts many errors into the runtime stage and increases verification complexity. Can be limited by static code checking, but grows cumbersome.

[swah → dmaz]

What do you use for longer programs?

[dmaz → swah]

Go if possible, C++ otherwise.

On: Google Code Jam 2012

[dmaz]

Posted at the top of the scoreboard. The FAQ pointed to this for advancement.

On: Google Code Jam 2012

[dmaz]

Lua for A&B, Go for C.

Looking at go-hero.net, it's interesting how the successful, popular languages in the past compare against the TIOBE index; what people want to use versus what the _have_ to use.

On: Ask PG: I submitted a story now I can't access HN ...

[dmaz]

It's excusable to mistake that post for spam.

No paragraphs, repetition, generic audience, then ends with a speculation.

[fourk → dmaz]

Assuming that this is the reason for his inability to access HN, why would a ban have been made at the IP level but not at the account level?

On: Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For ...

[dmaz]

Google had a similar, but more widespread paid referral program for Firefox with Google Toolbar for a few years.

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ct...