CountHackulus

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   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   Actually, there's a few Java VMs that are made to start nearly instantly or have an option for a quick startup. For example, [1] shows that the IBM J9 VM has a -Xquickstart option. [1] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r0/
2. 602.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   Surprisingly, compilers already do much of these optimization, particularly profile directed feedback (basically a static JIT), and the mixing of high-level and low-level optimizations. Now while, LLVM may not do this, it's far from the onl
3. 603.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   Interesting to note that designs can be just flat out wrong. Like a visual syntax error.
4. 604.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   I can't believe that no one's tried to make an Xzibit joke yet. This either shows that HNers are 2 years behind in internet memes, or have the common sense to not use them everywhere.
5. 605.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   This is MILES better than when I attempted to create a virtualized Oracle RAC 10g cluster. Never before have I cursed a company's name so much. This looks downright pleasant to configure.
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   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   Another annoying limitation is that Amazon MP3 is limited to US customers only. This greatly annoys me as there's an album I want that's not on iTunes, but is on Amazon MP3. None of the local music stores stock it. My only choices are to ei
7. 607.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   It's a good list, but there's been a few articles on here that talked about hashing and other security-related algorithms. Generally speaking, if you're implementing one, you're doing it wrong. Of course knowing about them and how they work
8. 608.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   Can't believe I missed that, but you're entirely correct, that second %d doesn't map to anything. Guess loops aren't the source of ALL evil.
9. 609.▲
   by CountHackulus 16y ago

   I'd just like to point out that in your string example, you gain nothing by keeping that string copy short. The compiler doesn't see lines, all it sees are tokens, and what you've written there is fine for a compiler to read, but difficult
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    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    As a native French speaker, I'm quite amused that several of these words are either French or have a basis in French. Seems that English has appropriated many words from other languages.
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    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    I do see a potential problem here. In the pictures, they show a bunch of Atom CPUs soldered directly to the board. That means dire things for service. Now, if a single CPU has a a flaw, you need to replace an entire board of CPUs. Compare t
12. 612.▲
    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    Believe it or not, just last night I was wishing I could use COBOL instead of C for a project. For simple read/process/write of fixed size binary records, COBOL is a dream to work with. You'd be surprised, there's still some awesome optimiz
13. 613.▲
    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    I work on a compiler, I agree, there's some weird behaviour that's possible, but a lot of the things he's described are implementation defined. There are general conventions, but things like shifting values more than double their size is im
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    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    For anyone planning to write to their MP and up, you should watch this short TED talk on writing to public officials. It'll help you get heard. http://www.ted.com/talks/omar_ahmad_political_change_with_pe...
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    by CountHackulus 16y ago

    I find it interesting that IBM's JVM wasn't even mentioned in the article, yet there's an ad for IBM at the bottom of the page.
16. 616.▲
    by CountHackulus 17y ago

    You can also use Erlang with Nitrogen, and of course you can configure Apache to run any arbitrary executable.
17. 617.▲
    by CountHackulus 17y ago

    The first language I was taught at school was Pascal, and thinking back, it's probably a decent choice. The school board I was in used only macs, so VB is straight out, and C/C++ is far too complex to teach at a grade 10 level. Basic is nic
18. 618.▲
    by CountHackulus 17y ago

    I have to wonder why people are so excited about a PHP compiler when there's been an open-source one out that runs on top of the IBM Java JIT for a while. http://www.projectzero.org/