That's certainly true, but I'd say most seasoned users on reddit don't subscribe to much of what's on default front page. The default reddits (funny, pics, f7, atheism, politics, etc) are basically as you describe. Rehashed memes and populist statements.
Anyone who's been on reddit long enough has a front page of all the sub communities they follow, and probably only a couple of the defaults.
The pop-culture types get the pop stuff and the veterans get the small, focused culture, so everyone's mostly satisfied.
When one community starts becoming watered down, someone will usually start a new subreddit, rather than go to a new site altogether.
Altogether, I think these will give reddit better longevity than slashdot/digg.
The OP got a message from the homeless looking guy and a new cipher that was much simpler and unrelated to the original cipher card. Basically proves to me that it's a stunt.
Anyway, it's now:
YOU HAVE MANAGED TO FIND THE MESSAGE WITH THE HELP OF FRIENDS. YOU CHANGED THE RULES NOW SO WILL I. JULY TWELVE FOUR PM. FIND THE BLUE JAY AT SIX AND A HALF AND FIFTY SIXTH AND TELL HIM YOU ARE THE LAST
>Instead of one gigantic process that has to handle all of an application, you'd have a handful of little ones. Instead of scaling massive applications across a cluster, you just scaled each interface out as needed. Instead of upgrading the whole enchilada at once, you just upgraded each interface only if it needed it. Instead of worrying about migrating user's coroutines across upgrades you just did the "Erlang trick" and moved them over to the new deployments.
He goes on to describe Tir, the natural style, and Lua's coroutines. Great intro to a fun framework.
Instead of worrying about migrating user's coroutines across upgrades you just did the "Erlang trick" and moved them over to the new deployments.
I'd like to hear how this works in detail. Suppose a user is exercising a multi-request handler, say pagination of personalized results.
At what point do you kill the coroutine and let the next request start a new handler in the new, upgraded process? What about state that the coroutine may have that hasn't been persisted anywhere else?
>The price of this is library fragmentation. There's more than one approach to objects, for example.
I've found that to be the case with Lua in general. The language is pretty easy to hack with, and so there's alot of wheel making. Lua has a mantra of "provide mechanisms, not policies", and since there's no formal class system, and multiple ways to define modules it's almost fragmented by design.
I think the designers are working on a better module system for the next release, or did that make it into 5.2?
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I think so. I'm not sure, but when I deleted mine a while back I got texts from friends wondering if I was okay, or dead, or mad at them. So there was at least some way they figured out I was gone. It may have just been that they couldn't find me anymore, but the texts came in almost immediately after clicking the delete button.
It was kinda entertaining how so many people assumed that something major had to have happened for me to get rid of Facebook. Really it just started as a bet and then I never got back on.
Excuse me? Not to say that creativity is unimportant, but to say that it trumps expertise is going very far, even if it is the zeitgeist. Without a thorough understanding of the world around us, aka expertise, creativity is not worth much. General aptitude is great, but experts lead the way to true innovation. Creativity is a commodity: we all have it to some, usually sufficient, degree.
