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by flitzwald 15y ago
Really nice demo. But there's one semi-unrelated thing I noticed (disclaimer: yeah, I don't like Flash either, but): This demo, with a handful of animated bezier curves drove one CPU to 40% (using Chrome on a Mac). And this is something th
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The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light”(strangepaths.com)
2 points by flitzwald 15y ago|0 comments
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by flitzwald 15y ago
Ah, I get it. Convenient container-syntax is only found in toy scripting languages for stupid people like -uh- Haskell? :)
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by flitzwald 15y ago
There is one thing in Objective-C that still gets my goat, even after 8 years of working with it: it's the lack of syntax for container-types: [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithConstructorIDontWantToType:...] is just a huge pain in the ass
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by flitzwald 15y ago
That's not half as exciting as to write into the raw, uncharted territory of your virtual address space...
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by flitzwald 15y ago
The only problem I see with this approach is the Javascript-interpreter seeing through your pointer system and holding a reference to the object pointed to - which defeats the purpose of creating a possibility to segfault...
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by flitzwald 15y ago
I guess, this has taken "minimum viable" to the next level.
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Accenture to Acquire Symbian Professional Services Operations from Nokia(newsroom.accenture.com)
3 points by flitzwald 15y ago|1 comments
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by flitzwald 16y ago
This is a recent talk by him about scalable programming language analysis. And yes, he's still at google. http://vimeo.com/16069687
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by flitzwald 16y ago
Comparing anything to Kod isn't really fair at this point. It is currently at 0.0.3beta and not feature complete (I hope ;)
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by flitzwald 16y ago
Sorry, but the only thing more painful to read and edit than pure regular expression syntax is string-escaped regular expression syntax. I still cringe when I remember writing this in C and Java.
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Steve Yegge on Scalable Programming Language Analysis(vimeo.com)
3 points by flitzwald 16y ago|0 comments
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The Original Google Computer Storage(infolab.stanford.edu)
1 points by flitzwald 17y ago|0 comments