gary_bernhardt

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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
DHH's complaints certainly aren't without merit, but they are naively formed. I did a conference talk called "Boundaries" on this topic, and how a particular type of disciplined functional style can mitigate it to a larg
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
Humorously, I already did create a software tool that does isolation automatically. It's called Dingus and it's five years old: https://github.com/garybernhardt/dingus . It was a terrible idea. It only worked
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TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric(destroyallsoftware.com)
177 points by gary_bernhardt 12y ago|88 comments
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
I read (or watched) Louis say that he was the guy on the plane, but this was a couple of years ago and I'm failing to google it now. I'm not convinced that this behavior is specific to Americans or Westerners; it may just be that
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
In that video, Louis is talking about himself in the third person: he's the one complaining on the plane. It's not about some group of "others" who are "bad" and don't appreciate the world; it's about
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
I knew that it was a string. If you listen closely, you'll hear that he asked "is that an array of object?" He probably asked that because it's in square brackets. I said "No, it's just an object". I&#x2
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
I didn't know that! It certainly makes sense. Context switches still thrash the TLB, though. The performance cost of that has gotten better as time has gone on, but I wonder how many transistors (and how much power) CPUs are burning fo
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
Juggling these interactions is exactly what makes good language design so difficult and time consuming. In the talk, I mention JS' ten-day design time several times for exactly this reason. Language design is hard and ten days just isn
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
I didn't want to go into this level of detail in the talk, but... I think you still want the MMU enabled, just not used for process isolation. With virtual memory totally disabled, a 1 GB malloc takes 1 GB physical memory even if it&#x
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by gary_bernhardt 12y ago
It is in a sense. I had an early form of the idea that became this talk in the spring or early summer of 2013. Bret's talk (which I loved!) was released shortly after. That made me think "I have to do this future talk now in case
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video](destroyallsoftware.com)
635 points by gary_bernhardt 12y ago|227 comments