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by DCKing 12y ago
Is there any recent benchmark of an L4 implementation with servers compared to a modern monolithic Linux or *BSD kernel? I'm still thinking there's huge untapped potential in microkernels and I wonder how the "state of the ar
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by DCKing 12y ago
In addition to the Snowden confirmation, there were some press leaks in 2012 that appear to have confirmed it earlier [1]. Apparently there's still some investigations going on within the U.S. government about who leaked it. I'd s
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by DCKing 12y ago
There was a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to this fact already, and Snowden finally confirmed this last year in an interview with Der Spiegel [1]. [1]: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/snowden-spiegel-13-0707-
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by DCKing 12y ago
That is true, I've seen it struggling everywhere. It just struggles less on faster machines.
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by DCKing 12y ago
The difference between the Air and the 15" Pro is pretty big. The difference between the Air and the 13" Pro is that the Air comes with ULV processors and cannot be configured with 16GB of memory. In my experience, you can do deve
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by DCKing 12y ago
Although I agree they have a good attitude towards deprecation and backwards compatibility, I do not believe their progressive attitude works necessarily implies a lax attitute to backwards compatibility. Investigation is underway for more
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by DCKing 12y ago
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Is there a way to practically keep in sync with the blockchain on a battery constrained device? Because at the moment, I don't think you can make the equivalent of a debit card for bitcoin. Even a mobile app would be impractical with i
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by DCKing 12y ago
Every Bitcoin-derived cryptocurrency has to keep in sync with the blockchain in order to participate in payments. That is what I mean with "online in nature".
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by DCKing 12y ago
What does the fact that I can pay with Bitcoin in a very narrow selection of web shops have to do with the vast network of debit and credit card systems that I can pay with anywhere I want (web and brick-and-mortar) without any effort w
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by DCKing 12y ago
MasterCard's duopoly (with Visa) of all electronic payment systems in the world is so well-known it is often used as the first example of such a market in economics courses. "Legacy" payment systems such as cheques and cash a
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by DCKing 12y ago
The headline perfectly summarizes that this observation is unexaplained by modern physics. You are right that associating this with dark matter and string theory is unfounded speculation, but there's nothing wrong with the headline. Al
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by DCKing 12y ago
If desktop Linux ever became popular enough for computers to come with it preinstalled, it would immediately go down the binary blob driver path that Android is on. For vendors, the reasons to close up their drivers would be identical whate
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by DCKing 12y ago
Android development in general is quite lacking. The language (I think) is meh; the APIs are full of antipatterns and type juggling; there is no good simulator/emulator (iOS is leagues better and WP8 is much less painful as well); th
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by DCKing 12y ago
That was not my point. Android is a developer platform; it uses Java because that is an accessible language for app developers, not because it is liked internally.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Ah, my apologies. The CoffeeScript metaphor is not completely valid.
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by DCKing 12y ago
> The article felt like it was trying to rationalize something, like Android needs a Swift. Android probably doesn't need a Swift as much as iOSX did, but there's still a lot to be gained from having a less verbose programming
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by DCKing 12y ago
Hughes didn't disagree with what I said; I would contend that higher-order functions and laziness only improve modularity iff the language was referentially transparent in the first place. The assumption that the theoretical FP languag
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's unfair to call Scala 'not really functional'. Although I agree it allows for very rich OO programming, dismissing it as merely adopting "some FP abstractions" and comparing it to LINQ is bordering on FUD. To su
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by DCKing 12y ago
The key selling point of functional languages is not lambdas, but immutable state and referential transparency. People read "advantages of functional programming" and think "anonymous functions" and "they're ta
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by DCKing 12y ago
> FP doesn't quite work because UI programmers like to think in terms of buttons and windows rather than f and g. This is because people have been educated in thinking in objects for thirty years now. This is again a result of histo
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Because we all know, Google is known for hiring flakes who can't code or design real systems. The primary reason Java is the language used for Android is the very same reason that Android is used so much in enterprises: it is easy
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's unfair to focus on "UI frameworks" when UI frameworks are specifically aimed at supporting client OSes where they have to deal with "preferred frameworks", all of which were developed when OO was all the craze.
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by DCKing 12y ago
The Java variety of the Play Framework is indeed pretty decent. Last time I worked with it however, it had to some really hacky stuff to work around deficiencies in Java (7).
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by DCKing 12y ago
There seems to be an implication in your comment that people aren't using FP to write "big serious programs". Is that really what you are implying?
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by DCKing 12y ago
Your statement sounds like a reverse cargo cult. The problem is not that people use these constructs that you mention. The problem is that people use the wrong constructs at the wrong time, don't seem particularly good at judging which
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by DCKing 12y ago
There's a reason that I put 'closed' in quotation marks. Many important parts of .NET are indeed open source. It is also unfair to discount Mono, which is a very functional implementation of the platform. But even if you assu
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by DCKing 12y ago
This is quite an unfair comparison. First of, Microsoft does support the development of .NET and associated components. It is definitely not an active support relationship, but MS answers the questions Mono developers have and has provided
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's nice for speed and the fact that you don't need to use a library any more, bit isn't more secure than JS Crypto was before.
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by DCKing 12y ago
This is good. The Lumia 520 proves that Windows Phone runs fine on the lowest end - in fact, it proves that it might be a better choice there. All Microsoft needs to do is come up with a way to support more than a very select set of Qualcom

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