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by alec 16y ago
The text only came up when I started using my mouse - if I just started typing, I would never have seen it. Also, the text was white, and happened to be positioned over a very light / white part of the picture, so I can understand how it c
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by alec 16y ago
For "high performance GDB", see tracepoints, which act somewhat like DTrace probes.
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by alec 16y ago
GDB 7.1 is a great improvement over previous versions and has a lot of the features LLDB intends to have - better C++ support, better thread debugging, more accurate backtraces, and a Python scripting API - as well as some features that are
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by alec 16y ago
I've recently started toying with the Play Framework, a Rails-alike written in Java. The other Java web development tools I'd seen all primarily featured a suffocating bureaucracy, but this one pulled a number of tricks to appear almost as
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by alec 16y ago
It seems likely that 37 Signal's primary purpose for doing these posts is to raise brand awareness.
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by alec 16y ago
A short tutorial, more interesting than the link's list of dependencies: http://wiki.github.com/bjpop/berp/using-berp
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by alec 16y ago
It seems like once a day there's a well-received front-page article on time management, avoid distractions, multitasking, and all that. He claims that his method is a "very efficient use of [his] time". I don't see this as any different.
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by alec 16y ago
"I'd imagine your customer felt more involved in the process and felt she had more ownership of the project because of it." Either that or he wondered why he needed to tell you what to do every hour.
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by alec 16y ago
The big feature Emacs provides that Vim doesn't in this case is integration with the window manager. Emacs lets me create another X window that shares the same set of buffers, clipboards, and other state with another. This is advantageous
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by alec 16y ago
How is this better than a mapping between uid and LinkedIn?
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by alec 16y ago
" nor has it been desired enough to motivate other phone manufacturers to put Flash on their phones" ... except for all the ones using Android. RIM's supposedly also working on Flash for the Blackberry.
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by alec 16y ago
"Adobe needs to make a killer product, not try to pressure Apple using the popular opinion." They seem to think they _have_ the killer product, and it's hard to argue with them - Flash is ubiquitous and has been for years, provides the cont
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by alec 16y ago
"Do we really need to destroy other peoples' way of doing things to feel good about our way of doing things?" No, but it's a valid concern that if you don't, you'll be stuck programming in it when it becomes popular (Java, Python, PHP, ...)
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by alec 16y ago
"No; The line has to be executed for the error to show up in a dynamic language." That may be true for some dynamic languages with primitive tools and implementations, but is not inherent in dynamic languages. For example, SBCL will alert
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by alec 16y ago
Seems reasonable to assume it's the big player in video patents, MPEG LA. Apple has contributed patents to their pool.
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by alec 16y ago
"A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now." That's kind of scary.
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Microsoft Research: Smart Caching for Web Browsers: 60% improvement(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by alec 16y ago|0 comments
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by alec 16y ago
"The web is the closest we've ever come to a standards compliant universal platform that is write once - works everywhere, period." I think Java applications succeeded better in this regard. I remember hearing about fewer incompatibilities
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by alec 17y ago
"Crucially, two of those were patents that IBM explicitly promised never to raise against open source." What sort of weight does that promise carry? It's hard not to draw parallels to the .NET patent discussion. Maybe these sorts of promi
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by alec 17y ago
Swapping has been demonstrated to be seriously detrimental to the life expectancy of solid state drives.
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by alec 17y ago
That function is valid Lua.
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by alec 17y ago
"It amazes me how some programming language authors seem to be clueless about really major areas of our field." I saw Larry Wall speak within the last year or so about Perl 6. His presentation on the stuff inherited from Perl 5 was solid,
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by alec 17y ago
I like the layout better than Google's. It's nice that it's centered on the page and that the zero-click info stands out.
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by alec 17y ago
"So why not create syntax that catches 99% of the cases for which you intend the language to be used and abolish the ability to create further syntax?" Because then I've got a syntax that works for 99% of the use cases you've already though
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by alec 17y ago
Where's the one where the Python programmer has to make something go fast and needs to write a C module?
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by alec 17y ago
Not always: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
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Design of the LLVM disassembler(blog.llvm.org)
13 points by alec 17y ago|1 comments
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The left fold: week in review: alternate STLs, teaching, and zombie AI(foldl.org)
1 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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The left fold: week in review: API design, branching, and Basic(foldl.org)
13 points by alec 17y ago|1 comments
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The left fold week in review: regexp implementations, shooter AI, and new specs(foldl.org)
1 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments

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