equark

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by equark 15y ago
Except that they have a monopoly position in none of those domains. Microsoft used their power to protect their monopoly. The Dart document itself says the number one reason for Dart is to protect Google's massive bet on the web platform. I
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by equark 15y ago
Given that it is also a server side language this is not surprising or worrying. It's no different than node.js specific code that doesn't work in the client. I think it's just inherent to heterogenous environments. If they can do better t
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by equark 15y ago
From what is known, it seems as if Google plans to move all their Javascript app building efforts to Dart. Given that GWT/Closure are already pretty successful in large organizations and internally, that seems like a big bet on Dart's futu
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by equark 15y ago
I have a feeling that Dart may be some version of Bracha's Newspeak. If you read his blog post on Javascript's failings, you'll see him talk about how they are already trying hard to have Newspeak fill the gap: http://gbracha.blogspot.com/
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by equark 15y ago
Your best bet is to check out Strongtalk to see if the main designers have a good artistic sense. It actually has a number of similarities to how Dart/Dash is described. http://www.strongtalk.org/index.html Although perhaps because it's
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by equark 15y ago
While we're on the top of Bayes, does any Berkeley grad have a copy of Michael Jordan's forthcoming book?
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by equark 15y ago
Consider changing "Transform your scientific expertise into cash" to something like "Find consulting work given your scientific expertise."
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by equark 15y ago
Stability no question, including plugins.
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by equark 15y ago
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. DLR != invokedynamic contrary to my impression of how the DLR operated. I will be interested in see how JRuby performance improves as a result.
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by equark 15y ago
The basic idea is that given a financial time series of N periods with three states (up, neutral, or down) there are 3^N possible "strategies" to test, which is an NP problem. This doesn't seem right. It's completely atheoretical and ignore
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by equark 15y ago
What's lacking for me is something that explains what currently is and is not possible in the 2.0 branch. For instance, it's not immediately clear what's going on with the UI components, datastores, and routing. Are these planned, implemen
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by equark 15y ago
Can somebody explain to me why the JRuby crowd think invokedynamic will lead to massive performance gains even though IronPython/IronRuby have had similar (to my understanding) capabilities for a long time but not seen massive gains?
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by equark 15y ago
When will sproutcore ui be back on track?
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by equark 15y ago
How aggressively is the Apache stack moving to Avro?
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by equark 15y ago
Is there any evidence this is actually true? Currently, IronPython and IronRuby do not have great performance on the CLR despite dynamic support.
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by equark 15y ago
You should at least offer a no config file option, so I can just point to my localhost when testing things out.
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by equark 15y ago
My design preference is to make sure the default option feels natural in the f# or ironpython interactive console. I should be able to interact with Riak with no XML and one line to connect. Obviously it's only 2% but it's the first 2%.
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by equark 15y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. First, I'm glad you guys are doing this. It's great, I didn't mean to be overly negative. I'd just lean towards having sensible defaults, so that first experience is: var client = new RiakClient() I just
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by equark 15y ago
Is there a reason connecting needs so much boilerplate to connect compared to Redis's Booksleeve client? Here's Redis: http://code.google.com/p/booksleeve/ using (var conn = new RedisConnection("localhost")) { conn.Open();
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by equark 15y ago
Testing can actually have a direct effect on learning: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?_r=2...
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by equark 15y ago
Very interesting. That's exactly what I was arguing. I don't quite understand where the line is though. For instance, why isn't Google Map information public domain? The locations of roads aren't copyrighted and Google's efforts to enter
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by equark 15y ago
I don't fully understand the logic. Even if the underlying content is free, how are JSTOR scans public domain? If Google spends millions of dollars scanning in public domain books, I don't see how that gives Bing the right to download the
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by equark 15y ago
Are there any public benchmarks of the prediction API against standard datasets?
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by equark 15y ago
That's nyu undergrad business majors. MBA is 150k on average. http://www.stern.nyu.edu/OCD/Recruiters/PlacementReports/ind...
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by equark 15y ago
The correct way to deal with this is to realize you have a problem? I think the above comment is willing to admit a problem and is asking for a solution. What does TDD have to do with it? I'm also interested in hearing what is considered
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by equark 15y ago
Emergency manuals for airplanes read like computer programs but are executed by humans.
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by equark 15y ago
I'm not so sure. My experience with Titanium Desktop has been lots of bugs that get tracked but have no discussion or updates. The API documentation is often completely wrong and simple bugs don't seem to get fixed for months. Just look
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by equark 15y ago
There is nothing inherent about HTML5 can't do this, it's just a lack of tooling and libraries. The Windows 8 demo shows that the performance is already there. Look at GWT for a possible development model. It's very possible that MS will
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by equark 15y ago
No source. Just look at every new product they release. All of them that started post GWT are based on GWT as far as I can tell. The new AdWords interface being the latest and Wave coming before that. Even small apps, like their new dis
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by equark 15y ago
Javascript + HTML5 is a a pretty ideal view layer, but MS almost certainly will need to provide a higher level story like GWT to satisfy their developers and support large teams. Google has shifted entirely to GWT over hand-coded javascrip

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