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Perl Myths Talk 2009(slideshare.net)
43 points by bigmac 17y ago|61 comments
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by bigmac 17y ago
IIRC, The gdb team was previously talking implementing this by forking after every instruction. Does anyone know if the current functionality is being built on that model? I guess the advantage of doing it that way is that the majority of
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by bigmac 17y ago
Comment from Allison Randal, Chief Architect of the Parrot project: LLVM provides a set of tools that look promising for allowing us to quickly develop a JIT, taking advantage of the platforms they already support. (Note that LLVM currentl
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by bigmac 17y ago
This essay seems to be somewhat at odds with http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html from January 2005. Now, PG argues that discipline is an important component of determination. For startups, determination is called "the most important predic
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by bigmac 17y ago
I think the CLR team was able to learn from some of the JVM's shortcomings; this limitation is one example. .NET IL has the TAIL. instruction prefix that allows tail calls. It can be prepended to any call instruction outside of an exceptio
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by bigmac 17y ago
I've considered the first option for myself, actually. Would it provide actual value for people or just be perceived as blogspam?
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by bigmac 17y ago
I saw Grady Booch give a presentation at SIGSCE one year -- actually a very interesting guy and a dynamic speaker. He said a quote that has stuck with me since: "Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works."
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by bigmac 17y ago
Equality Saturation is a really, really neat idea. That paper is full of gold, especially when they use a modified Rete algorithm to generate the different equivalent forms. Do you know of any mainstream compilers that are considering imp
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CBS Mobile, Loopt team collaborate for location-based ads(fiercemobilecontent.com)
5 points by bigmac 18y ago|0 comments
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by bigmac 18y ago
This article is reminiscent of Tanenbaum's famous quote from Computer Networks: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." Stating the concept of bandwidth in that way was particularly i
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by bigmac 18y ago
Intuitively it seems like ads ought to act as a constant revenue stream vs. the static one time cost of downloading an app. In theory, this should lead to more sustainable revenue streams. It would be interesting to see more data along th
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by bigmac 18y ago
I used to feel this way, but then I discovered that the resident uber programmer at work is a two finger typist. He is brilliant; used to work at Xerox Parc and all that.
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John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983)(fourmilab.ch)
75 points by bigmac 18y ago|17 comments
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by bigmac 18y ago
VMWare was pretty significant, despite their less than stellar performance lately.
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US Air Force Not Beholden To Inconvenient Patent Laws(blog.innovators-network.org)
3 points by bigmac 18y ago|0 comments