bickfordb

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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   Java and Haskell (GHC) have pretty good single thread performance and do not have a GIL.
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   Consider all the lawyer jobs that will be created!
3. 243.▲
   by bickfordb 15y ago

   You can also just write "open ." in an iTerm window
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   One thing I've been struggling to understand: unless you're using JPMorgan to manage your money, why would you leave more than $5-10K in a bank checking/savings account over a discount brokerage account (Fidelity, Scottrade)?
5. 245.▲
   by bickfordb 15y ago

   What's wrong with SQL?
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   I find the Japan story really hard to believe: buying a $50K+ car and not bothering to buy an AC transformer to plug it in?
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   This is an absurd argument. Apple's profit margins have always been significantly higher than any other competing electronics or computer manufacturer.
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   It's good to see alternative web programming languages! I hope the other browsers will add support for Dart and that other languages will follow.
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   by bickfordb 15y ago

   Most terrorists I know keep a .plan
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    by bickfordb 15y ago

    Many modern web apps where many programmers are employed are simply IO glue (request in, database in/out, web page response out) and don't involve many algorithms other than sorting and using hashtables and trees.
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    by bickfordb 15y ago

    I don't have a Revue, but I really like my Sony Google TV. It's the best television I have ever owned. It was probably a mistake releasing it without finishing the SDK / App feature (which they just released a few weeks ago, almost a year
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    by bickfordb 15y ago

    This lets you embed programs in other languages (DSLs) within your program that are parsed and compiled at compile time instead of run-time. This has the following benefits over run-time DSLs / languages embedded inside of strings: 1. The
13. 253.▲
    by bickfordb 16y ago

    Is this is a problem you face personally?
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    by bickfordb 16y ago

    Haskell has easy message passing as well. You can plop "forkIO" in front of any IO operation to make it concurrent
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    by bickfordb 16y ago

    It seems like you will put a lot of bike messengers out of work!
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    by bickfordb 17y ago

    See also Gearman ( http://gearman.org/ )