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by alblue 11y ago
Suggest adding "book" to the end of the HN subject, to clarify what he is writing
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by alblue 11y ago
Because Google has a new logo? Frankly the article doesn't have a better reason ...
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by alblue 11y ago
It reminds me of a coloured arrow rotating backwards in time. Sort of like OSX's beachball but going the wrong way.
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by alblue 11y ago
It's not an OSI approved license, nor does it actually grant any rights. If you use the WTFPL then you are preventing others from legally using it.
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by alblue 11y ago
This Trojan horse gives Amazon complete control of your device, from network connections to cameras to data. But don't look at that! Free shiny! Pay no attention to the virus behind the curtain.
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by alblue 11y ago
So the answer you get is the same as you've typed in (27). Hardly "can't divide" ...
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by alblue 11y ago
By excluding all of the other users (most of whom aren't in SF, or even in USA) from the conversation? And you can't see why people believe you were trying to bury the item and/or get him to sign an NDA because he was "v
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by alblue 11y ago
A descending turn can be done with <1G - it's only a level turn will pull more than 1G.
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by alblue 11y ago
It's like Scala but without all the unknown performance wrappers and confusing code, and with a highly tuned runtime with a minimal library.
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by alblue 11y ago
People still use Mercurial?
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by alblue 11y ago
It looks like along with the proposed JEP 260 [1] they will leave * sun.misc.Cleaner * sun.misc.Signal * sun.misc.SignalHandler * sun.misc.Unsafe * sun.reflect.Reflection::getCallerClass * sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory [1] http:/&#x2F
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Encapsulating internal APIs in JDK 9(mail.openjdk.java.net)
1 points by alblue 11y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 11y ago
Not only an insane idea to start with, the blog linked doesn't appear to have been updated since August 2014 - and the link goes straight to the blog's index which means it will change when new posts are added.
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by alblue 11y ago
The only real one was System.getenv() which was stubbed out to a no-op in Java 1.3 and then brought back in 1.4.
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by alblue 11y ago
The date API in Java (before 8 anyway) was hideous. Here's what was wrong with it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wrong-with-...
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by alblue 11y ago
Looks like a good idea; pity the fonts and colouring of the page make it unreadable.
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by alblue 11y ago
I wrote "Swift Essentials" which has 40% off he eBook with SWEE40 for the next couple of weeks. http://swiftessentials.org
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JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1(openjdk.java.net)
38 points by alblue 11y ago|53 comments
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by alblue 12y ago
This is my presentation, given at QCon London 2015, on a little history about Objective-C and where Swift came from, and how it works under the covers. Happy to answer any questions here if you have them.
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Swift – Under the Hood(infoq.com)
2 points by alblue 12y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 12y ago
It is possible for a git commit to have zero parents (initial commit), one parent (the direct ancestor in a linear path), two parents (generally referred to as a merge node) and more than two parents (also referred to as a merge but only po
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by alblue 12y ago
To be fair to JavaScript, whilst it is a terrible language, the specifics of the Date API were almost certainly based on the designs of the Java Date class, which is possibly the worst class known to humankind. http://stackoverfl
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by alblue 12y ago
Actually Maven 3.3 was released recently which has a smart builder for building separate parts in parallel, and using Takari plugins you can use the Eclipse complier which is parallelising in itself. See http://takari.io for mor
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Maven finally escapes from XML(infoq.com)
2 points by alblue 12y ago|0 comments
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by alblue 12y ago
You seem to be misguided about British English, in which gas is actually gaseous and not in fact an abbreviation for petrol.
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by alblue 12y ago
Phoronix have a section on compiler news [1]. They do comparisons between compilers, such as llvm vs gcc [2]. I would imagine that with the release of llvm there will be a comparison with gcc5 in the near future. [1] http://www.p
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by alblue 12y ago
Laser pointers don't work if the video is being recorded or screencast at the same time. They only work when the viewer is in the same room, and even then, they are typically pretty poor.
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by alblue 12y ago
No, Mecurial revlogs are not approximately simple. They were designed to be an append-only log for individual files, in the same way that CVS and RCS performed file-level change repositories. This choice causes problems when doing file rena
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by alblue 12y ago
This is from 2012 - the title should have (2011) appended.
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by alblue 12y ago
The blog rambles and disables native scrolling. It's not worth your time reading it.

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