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by bodski 15y ago
Interesting, this is by Rémi Forax who is involved in the Asm Java bytecode manipulation library[1] as well as hacking on all kinds of other Java related stuff. He's got a blog post here with some initial performance tests: http://weblogs.
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by bodski 15y ago
This is absolutely the kind of thing I come to HN for (amongst technical discussions, interesting new projects etc). I have seen some of the singingbanana guy's videos before somewhere, full of enthusiasm and good explanations, he'd make a
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by bodski 15y ago
I've never been inspired to do programming from a video more than when watching Sussman doing the HP SICP lectures with Hal Abelson. You can feel him barely contain his enthusiasm for the subject. Truly infectious and all you need to get a
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by bodski 15y ago
I agree, the only 'rebuttal' to fogus comment seems to be saying that he is tone deaf and bad at communicating with no explanation of why. The flagging of his comments seems to be other politics at work with no explanation of what they are.
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by bodski 15y ago
Anyone else find Scala representation conspicuous by its absence at the JVM lang summit this year? From what I can see there's been no talk relating to Scala and the challenges it has overcome and/or faces regarding its use of the JVM. Mayb
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by bodski 15y ago
Regarding the GPU (BCM2763?): Can you share any more details on the user space situation? Will there be Xorg/Mesa/Gallium support? Will you be relying on Broadcom's driver team for updates, if any, or do you guys have driver source under ND
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by bodski 15y ago
Aye, 64-bit hotspot with implicit -server switch, but going on your astonishment I took a look and it seems the 0.5s time is only achieved with fsc running from previous runs of the REPL. So from cold, i.e. no fsc running it takes about 3 s
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by bodski 15y ago
scala interpreter/REPL is starting up in about 0.5 seconds now compared to 7-8 seconds with 2.9.0.1 on my system using Sun JDK 64-bit. System scripting in Scala suddenly got a lot more appealing :-)
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Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by bodski 15y ago|0 comments
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Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, condemns British education system(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by bodski 15y ago|0 comments
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HP TouchPads sold running Android by mistake(crave.cnet.co.uk)
1 points by bodski 15y ago|0 comments
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Benefits and disadvantages in the approaches of C#, Java and Scala to closures(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by bodski 15y ago|0 comments
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by bodski 15y ago
"a processing unit coupled to the input device, the output device, and the memory for controlling the execution of the program routines." That sounds like you have just described pretty much any user facing computer ever built. Can you exp
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by bodski 15y ago
if (freedom.outlawed()) assert !outlaw == !free
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by bodski 15y ago
Switch layout to Dvorak maybe? It will give you a fresh start and allow you to type fast with less finger travel and less pain, not necessarily any faster though. Also will infuriate your co-workers and family members when they come to borr
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by bodski 15y ago
"... well, probably never look at them. It's the act of writing the summary that's useful." Very true. I'd say that writing out by hand works best, as opposed to typing it though.
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by bodski 15y ago
EKOPath page: http://www.pathscale.com/ekopath-compiler-suite related Phoronix article: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=16135
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PathScale's EKOPath4 compiler going open source(twitter.com)
3 points by bodski 15y ago|1 comments
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by bodski 15y ago
Apparently it uses ext4 [1] and the GPS is markedly improved [2] [1] http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2/313715-samsung-ga... [2] http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gps-i...
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by bodski 15y ago
Reddit /r/Android discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ht1il/nice_move_sam... Apparently this is the first Android phone to ship with 100% open source kernel (drivers and all).
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Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev, Says Get to Work(phandroid.com)
98 points by bodski 15y ago|19 comments
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by bodski 15y ago
US equivalent of the ZX81: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
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by bodski 15y ago
yes, DNF going gold is definitely a good omen, apparently Frontier are committed to getting 'The Outsider' out of the door before they can focus on Elite 4 full time though. So I'm not holding my breath... (sounds like a really promising ga
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by bodski 15y ago
OK David this is cool and all, graphical Linux desktop on a USB stick, but please keep working on Elite 4 [1] , it's been a long wait so far... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_4
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by bodski 15y ago
Stella in the UK is basically the same as Carling's 'chemical' lager, it shouldn't be surprising that the hangovers are so bad. Most lagers on sale in the UK (outside of city 'mini-marts') are brewed in the UK and all seem to taste the same
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by bodski 15y ago
Thanks for doing this, as a fairly rookie programmer I will be reading this all. :) Would you welcome typo corrections if people are making efforts to do sophisticated formatting? If so here's one that seems worth correcting: (from item 2.)
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by bodski 15y ago
"Recommendation: Patent thickets and other obstructions to innovation. In order to limit the effects of these barriers to innovation, the Government should: • take a leading role in promoting international efforts to cut backlogs and manag
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by bodski 15y ago
You might be taking the quote too literally. I think what von Neumann was getting at is that the abstract world of mathematics is essentially artificial and alien to our natural sensibilities and that if you expect to 'understand' something
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by bodski 15y ago
A related excerpt from BBC Horizon documentary on Psychedelic Science with interviews including Micrsoft's Bob Wallis on the use at the Homebrew Computer Club and Kary Mullis (who claims that LSD was intrumental in the development of the Po
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by bodski 15y ago
Aside from the learning the theory a lot of being good at math(s) is pattern matching type stuff and the intuition that goes with it. I suppose this is what the author is getting at, practice, practice.... "Young man, in mathematics you do

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