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by alblue 11y ago
We are indeed in a great space right now. At QConLondon next week, I'm hosting the "Modern Native Langauges" track which will have presentations on Rust, Go, Pony and Swift: https://qconlondon.com/track/m
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by alblue 11y ago
For future reference: unpractically is not a real word. Please consider using real words such as impractical.
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by alblue 11y ago
I originally wanted to do a PhD because of the feeling smart aspect; but actuall, after I had started it (actually during the middle) I had a realisation that the people doing PhDs weren't necessarily smart; but rather they were either
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by alblue 11y ago
I've written a follow up piece covering the hearings held today before the house judicial committee which may be of interest to those reading this thread http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/apple-fbi-congre
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by alblue 11y ago
I sat through the YouTube presentation (which is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw if you have four hours to spare). In general the discussions were quite well presented, apart from a couple of rabid
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by alblue 11y ago
This presents a summary of the congressional hearing "The Encryption Tightrope – Balancing American's Security and Privacy" that was covered live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw A repla
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Apple, FBI testify before Congress(infoq.com)
1 points by alblue 11y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Will do.
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LightBend answers questions about the future of Scala(lightbend.com)
4 points by alblue 11y ago|0 comments
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by alblue 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words :-) I'm happy to answer things as I understand them, but I am not a lawyer.
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by alblue 11y ago
I've written up the piece for InfoQ here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/all-writs-denied Basically, the motions in the piece indicate that the relationship with the All Writs Act that was successfull
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The Alpine Docker Mistake(technosophos.com)
4 points by alblue 11y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 11y ago
This raises a whole bunch of questions, and none of the answers are good: - What's the difference between zfs and nvidia as binary blobs in the kernel? Either they are both incompatible on principle or they are not. - If the file syste
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by alblue 11y ago
Although this is a fun idea, it's just putting an SD card into a 3.5" floppy disk case and then wiring up the read/write head with contacts to make it appear like an insertion of a normal mass storage SD card. A more accurate
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by alblue 11y ago
I used to play bridge on Yahoo! Games in its hayday. It was a great advert for Java Applets at a time before Flash took over and before mobile devices took over the casual gaming market. One of the great advantages was being able to turn up
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by alblue 11y ago
Swift 3 is expected later this year with a fixed ABI. Once that happens we will start to see Swift-only APIs being made available for iOS frameworks. Most of the existing apps aren't written in Swift because they predate Swift's c
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by alblue 11y ago
You might just be looking at the language from a syntax perspective. However the two are very different in the way that you compile and run them. In C# the code is translated into a custom bytecode (IR) and then the CLR is used to execute t
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by alblue 11y ago
Given that their 21st Century Network was built upon IPv4 with a complete ignorance of IPv6, you'd have to think a split and replacement with someone more competent would be a vital part of growing the UK's technical economy.
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by alblue 11y ago
The title should have "in America" added, as it is entirely US specific.
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by alblue 11y ago
The article contains no useful information as to why you need a developer diary.
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by alblue 11y ago
The problem is threefold. Firstly, as the letter notes, the majority of people using TypeSafe/LightBend's services are in fact "traditional" Java shops. This suggests that - in the enterprise at least - there's limi
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by alblue 11y ago
Click on the "web" link from the top of this page.
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by alblue 11y ago
There was an interesting write up in 2013 of someone who reverse engineered the game to develop a fix for the main flaws in the gameplay: http://hackaday.com/2013/04/06/fixing-the-worst-video-game-e... It&#x2
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by alblue 11y ago
The authors assume that you are going to notice the date it was published and come to the conclusion that it is an April Fool's RFC.
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by alblue 11y ago
I wrote a series back in 2011 that looked at a bite-sized chunk each week, including how the git repository works, and although the series is long over there is a summar/index page here: http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011&#
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by alblue 11y ago
That's not the information reported by Reuters this morning [2] "San Bernardino County reset the password on the iCloud account at the request of the FBI, said county spokesman David Wert." Sounds like both sides are blaming
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by alblue 11y ago
As I noted in my InfoQ piece (linked elsewhere in another comment) the FBI prevented themselves from being able to get recent automated backups by asking the owners to change the iCloud password. The phone stopped backing up at that point.
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by alblue 11y ago
As I wrote in my InfoQ piece (linked from another of my comments elsewhere) he has since backed down from his stance and will not be filing that legislation.
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by alblue 11y ago
I've written up a summary of the current situation for InfoQ here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/fbios-update Basically, the FBI shot themselves in the foot by changing the password for the iCloud ac
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by alblue 11y ago
FWIW there have been methods added to the Math class that perform math operations on unsigned integers, allowing a Java int to be treated as an unsigned int (cf long). In addition there have been other libraries such as JFFR and JNA that ma

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