bnoordhuis

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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I understand your sentiment but it's not all about the money.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
The 18K liquidity requirement for Dutch BVs is about to be dropped, if indeed it hasn't already. It's a trivial obstacle anyway. You only need the money in an account on the day of incorporation.There are a number of companies that will len
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
My laptop has a sticker on it: "WARNING! Do not touch. This device belongs to a person with a contagious skin disease." Works like a charm. :-)
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Great, I will! Thanks, John.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
John, what is Twilio's position on remote working? The senior engineer's job looks interesting but I can't relocate right away (baby on the way, misses wants to give labour in the home country). I'd be willing to fly in for a couple of days
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
> If you use a two-word representation, you can't atomically set a value On 32-bit architectures. 64-bits architectures have atomic XCHG and CMPXCHG operations. That being said, the plan for Jaegermonkey is to upgrade jsvals from 64 to
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
You can use the bulk up/downloader: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploading... The admin interface has an export option too, if memory serves.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Okay, then let me tell you what I /can't/ do without. To name a few: hot-swappable classes design by contract re-ified generics closures These are all things that have been on developer wishlists for years . Design by contrac
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I program in Java every day and I see nothing in that list that I really cannot do without. Structs / value types? Nice to have but you can make do with java.nio.ByteBuffer. Concurrent PermGen sweeping? I work on a big enterprise project li
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I'm somewhat involved in the development of Node. It's a fast-moving project, with the occasional bug and an API that is still in flux. You might not want to build your billion dollar enterprise on it and one could hardly blame you. That be
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I don't think so. It's not uncommon to run Oracle on Solaris + SUN hardware. Not a large market but one with high profit margins. Why would Oracle want to kill a cash cow?
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Both threaded and event-driven I/O are scalable if you throw enough hardware at it and - all other things being equal - are about as fast. The one-thread-per-connection model is conceptually simpler at the cost of a higher resource footprin
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
You're spot on. NIO has always been slower but it allows you to process more concurrent connections. It's essentially a time/space trade-off: traditional IO is faster but has a heavier memory footprint, NIO is slower but uses less resources
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Same goes for rebooting after upgrading libc and other core libraries. Running processes will keep on using the old version of the library and that's problematic with long-running processes like web servers and databases. You don't want to
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Parts. But major parts if you want to, see e.g. the Android port of Quake 3: ~250,000 lines of C and a few hundred lines of Java glue.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I can answer this question for Java + Terracotta. Terracotta works much of its magic through bytecode instrumentation so I expect that the differences between Clojure and Java are minimal. Pros: 1. Makes it very easy to turn an existi
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Awesome, I signed up. On a tangential note: any hackers in the greater Rotterdam area (or maybe Amsterdam or Utrecht) up for a beer sometime?
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I was approached by Google recently for an SRE position. I'm not sure where they found my contact information but I don't have accounts with any of the major geek sites - or much of an internet presence at all, really. The recruiter was a t
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I second this emotion. To me, there is no discernible difference between my N900 and the HTC Hero I had before it.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
> stupid J2ME clients that send chunked-encoding when they aren't supposed to (it's for servers morons). Sorry, Mr. Shaw, but you are wrong (but I still like you and I'm looking forward to Mongrel2). RFC 2616 is careful to say 'server'
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
As jasonkester pointed out, the HTML is only sent out once and then dynamically updated with AJAX (or AJAJ, as the case may be). So in the grand scheme of things, those few hundred lines of HTML don't matter much.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Can't vouch for it but someone already did some work on this. http://github.com/jmtulloss/zeromq.node
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
> Wow, what a dick this Marak guys seems to be. He is a regular on the nodejs mailing list. An example of his, ha-hum, somewhat difficult disposition (break-down starts from the third post down): http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/b
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
> Even the energy companies want to be in on alternative energy when it comes. The oil companies are not stupid. There will come a day when it is no longer economically feasible to extract the remaining oil. Any company that hasn't dive
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
> How does having everything behind a single port increase flexibility? It increases reach. Millions of people are behind firewalls that only allow HTTP traffic.
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
Caveat emptor: The article fails to mention that interpolation search's worst-case performance is O(n), considerably worse than binary search's O(log n).
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I respectfully disagree. I recently bought an EV certificate from VeriSign and, apart from some paperwork, the only "extended" validation was a two minute phone call from a VeriSign rep. Well worth the EUR 575,- :/
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I've seen ECC mentioned a few times in this thread but how relevant is it really? At my old job we used both regular COTS hardware from Dell and HP and high-performance gear from SUN, often at four times the price. The latter had ECC memory
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
right now there just isn't very much price pressure in the VPS industry Isn't that the point? Right now, there isn't much of a margin left to undercut competitors with unless you scale up to Amazon or Rackspace size. Developments li
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by bnoordhuis 16y ago
No, he didn't. A call to ipv4_recv() is obvious, a call to impl->recv() less so.

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