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by alblue 10y ago
Apparently a "tootsie pop" is an American sweet (candy) which has a hard centre and a soft middle. The allegory is that having a hard fixed API with a dangerous/unsafe centre is the way to wrap unsafe code. Though why the art
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by alblue 10y ago
This person has obviously no intention of sharing the data with others, and hasn't heard of Git Notes support either. http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/11/git-tip-of-week-git-notes....
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by alblue 10y ago
Anyone who claims that CSVs are easy to parse have obviously never had to deal with the kind of junk that you see in real CSV files. Quite apart from quotes (is a "a,b" two fields with '"a' and 'b"' o
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by alblue 10y ago
And while talk only allowed for 2 people to communicate, ytalk allowed multiple people to talk at the same time.
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by alblue 10y ago
Plus, you can even learn to spell huge with an h ...
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by alblue 10y ago
Define a macro which has the feature name and a future date for when the build should start complaining. For extra points, have two dates: one for generating warnings and another for generating errors. Works like a charm.
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by alblue 10y ago
The TL;DR is that the "file" utility was miscategorising files that had "Tue" in the first few bytes of a file as an Erlang JAM file, with knock on effects for PostScript files generates with a header comment with Tue in
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by alblue 10y ago
I thought this might be about the (old) Java Date API (which also inspired the JavaScript API as well): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wrong-with... As it is, it's a JavaScript laden blog a
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by alblue 10y ago
Touching controls should disable autopilot - what's not reasonable is the car failing to apply the emergency brakes to avoid an upcoming collision, regardless of whether autopilot is enabled or not.
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by alblue 10y ago
The presentation is unreadable as it jumps all over the place and requires you to press keys to navigate.
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by alblue 10y ago
The video of SILInspector (and background on SIL) is at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-qIKOoKgA
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by alblue 10y ago
Technically the first computers were (mainly) females who were good at maths and were put forward to compute maths tables for the navy. In fact the reason that we call (modern) computers by that name is because they are named after the orig
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by alblue 10y ago
I created SILInspector to do some demos for a presentation: https://github.com/alblue/SILInspector You can switch between the various stages of the Swift compiler including assembly. I did a talk for Swift London recen
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by alblue 10y ago
Surely this is an indication of its popularity?
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by alblue 10y ago
A lot of changes in networking have been happening recently; in particular, software defined networking is (slowly) replacing dedicated routers and hardware devices. The downside of this is that it's much easier to change configuration
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by alblue 10y ago
Discovery of TCP/IP is a significant overstatement. The ants perform flow control based on the number and frequency of ants returning from a known source. They of course have no concept of out-of-order delivery, retransmitting lost ant
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by alblue 10y ago
The nub of the thread is: these sites have put up ad blocker blockers, so you can't see the content without disabling your ad blocker. And yet when you do you are either exposed to full screen or video auto play ads, or in some cases,
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by alblue 10y ago
Actually in naval terminology a "boat" is a vessel that can be carried by another vessel (eg life boat). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat Though frankly I think RemoteyMcBoatface would be good here :-)
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by alblue 10y ago
The remotely operated vehicle has been named BoatyMcBoatface instead: https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/728508385692418048
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by alblue 10y ago
If you do what you love for a living, you'll never have to work again. Of course what one person loves another can find boring :-)
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by alblue 10y ago
It was a great talk at QCon London earlier this year - the video is due to be published towards the end of next month. I'll try and come back to this thread when it is with the URL. (Disclaimer: I was the track host for Perer's ta
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by alblue 10y ago
Everyone is going to die: it's just a question of when and how.
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Measuring the performance of StringBuffer with JMH(alblue.bandlem.com)
1 points by alblue 10y ago|0 comments
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by alblue 10y ago
The Panama Papers data was analysed in Neo4j, and the ICIJ has been working with Neo Technology to make a copy of the data available in a public Neo4j graph database, which will be queryable with Cypher to allow others to explore the data s
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Neo4j 3.0 released and Panama Papers available May 9(infoq.com)
2 points by alblue 10y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 10y ago
Java has a couple of different options for dealing with objects but is able to manage the full set of pointers and know that (for example) code doesn't try to access memory+1 for looping etc. Under 4G worth of size pointers are simply
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by alblue 11y ago
There were two experiments that caught my memory back then. The first was them trying to understand why the ARM chip they had on a test board was working, despite the fact that the power supply wasn't plugged in. It transpired that the
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by alblue 11y ago
An interesting read but basically boils down to "how many primitive opcodes are there" rather than instructions on the whole. It also doesn't take into account the use of prefixes: for example nop1 and nop2 are technically tw
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by alblue 11y ago
Chris came to give a talk at the DocklandsLJC recently, which gives a great intro to these to technologies. http://docklandsljc.uk/2016/04/truffle-graal-clojure-neo4j.h...
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by alblue 11y ago
I read this and I have still got no idea what it's supposed to be about. Plus it starts with a spam-baity "please share this link as much as possible". It seems to be someone's personal beef with some Facebook feature.

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