DannyB2

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by DannyB2 6y ago
We are spending plenty on space, just see SLS.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
> Java's high memory usage I would rather optimize for performance and energy use at the cost of higher memory use. See recent SN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24642134 https://greenlab.di.uminho.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
That is interesting.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
An economic argument for GC instead of ARC/ORC. Commercial web application in Java. Java GC is concurrent, on other cpu cores than the cores processing customer requests. Modern GCs such as Red Hat's Shenandoah or Oracle's
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Digital Liberty! It's about how to protect your bits. Not just about intellectual property any more.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Once I learned MigLayout, I never went back.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I have encountered two compiler bugs in my (almost) 40 year career. In about 1988, a bug in Apple's MPW Pascal compiler. I refused to believe it was a compiler bug, until I finally inspected the generated code. IMO the only way to be
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Novell owned the Unix IP. (See TFA, Unix Wars) In the following, SCO means Caldera, who renamed itself to SCO. Novell licensed Unix rights to SCO where SCO would send 95% of sales to Novell and SCO would keep 5%. (Who sounds like the owne
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by DannyB2 6y ago
The Unix Wars article mentions Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). It is very important to realize that this is NOT the same SCO that sued IBM in 2003, which is what starts the very first Groklaw article. A company named Caldera renamed itself to S
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I suppose you could say that about any online forum. There is a qualitative difference between HN and Facebook or Twitter. One of these doesn't try to pry its tentacles into every aspect of your life while trying to capture every poss
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I never have nor never will have a Facebook or Twitter account. Probably not other social media either. It's bad enough having a Google account and all that encompasses. It is astonishing that another company would require an account
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by DannyB2 6y ago
"Medieval Plague Doctor Mask & Costume" https://www.instructables.com/id/Plague-Doctor-Costume/ In order to make Halloween scary this year, children are ordered to NOT wear masks.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Lettuce not forget Raptor runs on Oxygen and Methane. Both of which might be produced on Mars.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
What your post sounds like, and I believe this to be true, is that the primary value proposition of Windows is . . . to run legacy software.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
You're right. He quit. However he seems to be the exception.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I'm just repeating it as I remember it after nearly 40 years. :-) Back in the day, there wasn't Google, Wikipedia, Snopes, etc. or I would have looked it up back then.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Eventually, when it reaches the obvious RETURN statement, it should then get to the PROFIT. And memory? Memory is unlimited! This is Java! Oh, wait, it's BASIC, memory isn't unlimited. Nevermind.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
10 INVENT NEW LANGUAGE 20 GOSUB 10 30 PROFIT
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I remember a story from the early 1980's about Steve Jobs. Steve asked, what is the most efficient animal in motion? People would give many answers. The correct answer was a condor in flight. A common wrong answer was a human being. St
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Google had (or still has) perverse incentives. No incentive to do the boring work of maintaining and improving existing products. Lots of incentive to create new things -- even if they overlap functionality of existing things -- which then
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by DannyB2 6y ago
It is not impossible to create a large program in a dynamic language. It simply requires extreme discipline. At the same time, it is not impossible to write a large program entirely in assembly language, it just requires extreme discipline
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I always love new whizbang browser features. But I avoid them until they are common enough in the end user base that I can actually expect to be able to use those new features. Now modern browsers that are self updating is a huge help.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
The only troublesome browser is basically Internet Explorer. And even Microsoft threw in the towel on that. Edge wasn't bad, but now even it is simply Chrome in Edge clothing. There are other WebKit based browsers (eg, Safari) which
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by DannyB2 6y ago
I hear what you are saying. Long ago when I considered whether to use Flash or web standards, I had to consider all this. Back then, even though Flash was popular, I could foresee that it wasn't going to be around forever. Even befor
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Linux wasn't a 2nd class citizen to the people who used Linux. Thus some people see Flash as an anomaly that needs to be replaced by web standards that are so good that Flash becomes unnecessary. That way all platforms get rich clien
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Good question. Why not open source? All it takes is someone (or group) interested enough to expend the resources necessary to re-implement it. But browsers are not going to support binary extensions. So an implementation might be in WebA
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Absolutely. And that was a bit obvious in the late 80's. Somewhat obvious in the 90's. Very obvious in the early 2000's.
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Prior to the IBM PC, ironically, Steve Jobs had coined the term "personal" computer. Prior to this term, they were called "micro" computers "home brew", "toy", "small", etc. The idea of one
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Flash did not run on every possible platform that web browsers ran on. Flash was a 2nd class citizen on Linux. Flash needed to move aside so that the web standards could advance to the point where Flash was no longer necessary. Not only di
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by DannyB2 6y ago
Elon seems to be in favor of both space exploration and green energy and other ways to generally improve the planet and human life. Comcast vs Starlink, hmmm, I wonder which?

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