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by diek 11y ago
> whereas the transition from Java 6 to later versions is proving to be next to impossible I've never heard of anyone having issues going from Java 6 to later versions, at the language level or JVM level.
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New GoDaddy OpenStack-based VPS hosting product enters free open beta(garage.godaddy.com)
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by diek 12y ago
Just to clarify, java.util.ArrayList.add() grows the backing array by 50%, not just by length()+1.
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by diek 12y ago
Can you quantify "got less done" in the non-open plan? Fewer projects? My anecdotal data is that people in an open plan sling more code, but better architectural decisions that don't require as much rework down the line (and
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by diek 12y ago
(Full disclosure, I work at GoDaddy) I joined about a year ago, and the only reason I did so was because most of the executive team, including the CEO, was replaced about a year prior to me joining. The new CEO is Blake Irving, who seems l
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by diek 12y ago
What's also exciting about Iridium NEXT is they will have a hosted payload that will do global tracking of aircraft. Right now organizations like the FAA and NAV CANADA are very dependent on ground stations to track planes. Satellite
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by diek 12y ago
For point 3, it really depends on the suburb. I grew up in a nice suburb and after school was always about getting together with other kids in the area. We could ride bikes all around the neighborhood, go to local parks, and go to a movie
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by diek 12y ago
This was my first reaction as well. If you're having a house built you have to prove you can get a loan before they start construction. Then you have to go through the closing process on the house before the builder will let you move
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by diek 12y ago
I don't see how this is an Ant-specific issue. Ant is just calling into javac with a classpath parameter. The actual execution time spent in Ant should be minimal.
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by diek 12y ago
I don't think anyone has an issue with electronic trading. It's high frequency trading that has a lot of people (including myself) very worried.
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by diek 13y ago
None really. It just inherited the C model of compilation.
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by diek 13y ago
Wasn't the whole point of Snapchat undermined by the fact that they weren't really deleting the snaps [1] ? Just renaming the snaps with a '.nomedia' extension? That sort of contradicts the 'ephemerality' the
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by diek 13y ago
How much weight would you give the opinion of an astronomer (today) who didn't know how to use a telescope?
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by diek 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, what is the rationale for a non-SSA bytecode? Is the idea that each implementation will have a platform-optimized SSA format?
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by diek 13y ago
> Memory issues out the ass. As others have posted, this is indicative of bad code. Java can certainly leak memory in the form of retained live references. > Of course you shouldn't be using version 1.2.3.4.5, our code only work
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by diek 13y ago
You honestly can't think of good engineering reasons not to push new code directly into production?
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by diek 13y ago
Maybe others can reply for the other names in your list, but at least Larry Page tried to sell the tech behind the Google search engine to all the major search engines of the era. None of them wanted outside tech (NIH syndrome, etc) and th
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by diek 13y ago
It depends on what you consider the JVM. If you're just talking about something that can load class files and do some instruction interpretation (like this project) then that's one thing... if you're talking about implementi
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by diek 13y ago
* Everyone has a calendar with blocked-out times (for other meetings, or whatever personal things they do). Pick an open time that all participants can join (I work in MST, my co-workers mostly are on EST). * The expectation is to be avail
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by diek 13y ago
That's more about personal connections than the quality of life of a region, right? Granted, geographically if you happen to know those people it makes it hard to connect with them, but most people can't just ring up Guido when t
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by diek 13y ago
I can only speak to my experience, but I've turned down offers from Google and Netflix to stay in the Phoenix area. The cost of living (relative to salaries) in the valley is crazy, and you're competing for housing with people wh
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by diek 13y ago
Phoenix has a pretty thriving tech community. I'm in Chandler, and in the last week I have gone to a Cassandra meetup at GoDaddy and am going to an Amazon cloud meetup at the Amazon offices in downtown Tempe tonight. I run into Ruby a
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by diek 13y ago
It depends on what audio controllers he's written device drivers for. In most VMs you can specify which devices are present and visible to the OS. For example, VirtualBox has implementations of the Intel HD Audio, ICH AC97, and Sound
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by diek 13y ago
Why not use VirtualBox, VMWare Player, or qemu?
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by diek 13y ago
> 100% in-memory workload. Don’t even think about hitting disk for 0.0001% of these requests. They also discuss how these are 1M read requests.
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by diek 13y ago
One of many examples: Project Azorian During the Cold War the Soviets lost a nuclear submarine in international waters. The Soviets couldn't find it, the US (through its network of acoustic listening stations in the oceans) could. Th
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by diek 13y ago
> My team has a diehard Eclipse user who has added a bunch of random configuration plugins to Eclipse basically to make Eclipse work with Maven. You realize that the 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' comes with official support for Mave
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by diek 14y ago
The name of the class will vary, I just mentioned Ethics because that seems to be what a lot of schools call it. Mine was "Social Implications of Computing"... but again, it goes into (very specifically) the law regarding copyright and pat
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by diek 14y ago
Any Ethics course as required for ABET accreditation would have taught you that copyright is substantial in software. Most open source projects require the retention of the copyright notice at the top of every file.
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by diek 14y ago
1. Plagiarism is bad I'm assuming this meant in the sense of "why can't I just copy a binary tree implementation from the internet and turn it in", since every advanced course I took in college encouraged the use of libraries where appropri

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