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by jbarham 16y ago
AWS is so far ahead that it's not even funny. E.g., go to IBM's cloud site ( http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/index.html ) and behold the content free page w/ generic stock photos. Click on the pricing page on the getting started p
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by jbarham 16y ago
"Continuous development" on the mainframe? Hah! My first job out of university in 1996 was doing COBOL programming on mainframes for the federal government of Canada, and my first project was to rewrite a program originally written in 1972
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by jbarham 16y ago
Given that you're the guy behind web.go, is Slowcop is written using Go and web.go? If so, how are you finding writing production web code in Go? Can you share any info/tips on the hosting setup behind Slowcopy? (FWIW I'm an avid Go progr
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by jbarham 16y ago
As someone who has lived in Vancouver, saying that its weather is better than Montreal's isn't saying much, unless of course you actually like six straight months of almost daily rain. Having lived over four years in California, the weat
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by jbarham 16y ago
If you want to look at a real-world compiler, check out the Go suite of "gc" compilers, which are mostly written by Ken Thompson. The source for the Go ARM compiler is at http://golang.org/src/cmd/5g/ , or you you can browse the entire Go
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Also buying walking distance from the beach gives you that security that land value will never go down. Sure, just like all those condos in Miami... There is no economic law that says that properties near the beach can never go down
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Europeans have invented PHP, Linux, Python, C++, Ruby on Rails... Sure, but Rasmus Lerdorf, Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Bjarne Stroustrup and David Heinemeier Hansson all now live in the US which IMHO says a lot.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Ironically probably the most popular application of XPath in the real world is jQuery selectors! Although I don't know whether that weakens or strengthens the case for JSON...
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by jbarham 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/ is the source for the Go compilers and standard library. Very clean, clear code in the Bell Labs tradition.
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Chevy Volt is 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year(motortrend.com)
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by jbarham 16y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that if you care about Unicode, Lua doesn't really support it. See http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode for the details.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Articles like this make me appreciate Go's approach to concurrency ( http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency ).
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by jbarham 16y ago
Somewhat tangential, but Jaron Lanier has some interesting comments/criticisms of MIDI in his book "You Are Not a Gadget". I'd quote him, but it would go against the spirit of the book. ;) Well worth reading in full.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Never mind C, it's nice to see the Go ARM compiler coming along nicely ( http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=3e8c5af7bb1a810f... ). Pretty cool to see that Ken Thompson is still checking in code.
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by jbarham 16y ago
The Mac Pro uses ECC RAM ( http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html ), the Mac Mini doesn't and can't since it has a Core 2 chip and Intel only supports ECC w/ its Xeon chips.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Even w/ this visa London will be no more attractive as a startup hub than New York, both of which are dominated by over-paid financiers who have driven up the cost of living to unaffordable levels for normal folks, let alone boot-strapping
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by jbarham 16y ago
> the poverty levels I see in the US is shocking and appalling to my over-protected Canadian ass I daresay American tourists find the poverty levels in Vancouver's downtown eastside just as shocking and appalling.
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by jbarham 16y ago
This is a great point. The difference in bankruptcy law between the US and e.g. France or Germany creates an incentive for US entrepreneurs to take more risk since if things don't work out (and they usually don't) they can dust themselves
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by jbarham 16y ago
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." -- Ken Thompson
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by jbarham 16y ago
If you're interested in systems programming, I'd learn Go ( http://golang.org ). The team behind Go (which includes Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) is very strong technically, and there's a lot to learn about programming style and techniques fo
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by jbarham 16y ago
Somewhat OT, but as a longtime Python programmer I've recently been enjoying playing w/ Go ( http://golang.org/ ) which combines the lightweight syntax of dynamic languages like Python w/ static type safety and efficiency in a single langua
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by jbarham 16y ago
Unfortunately Psyco is 32-bit only and not being actively developed ( http://psyco.sourceforge.net/psycoguide/req.html ). On the plus side, the author is now focusing on PyPy.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> 40 to 70% That's one heck of a margin of error.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> operating systems need to support SSD's as a cache for the main hard drive rather than as a hard drive themselves No need to update your OS if you buy the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid SSD/platter drive (now $110 for 500 GB on Amazon) as
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by jbarham 16y ago
> What I find interesting about this is that apparently the Chinese have developed their own interconnect This isn't uncommon in the HPC world. E.g., IBM's Blue Gene/L series features a custom torus interconnect.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> I think a low cost Mac and the evolution of the iPad is a LOT scarier (by an order of magnitude) to Microsoft. Considering the cheapest Mac you can buy is the $700 mini and you still have to buy a keyboard and screen, I don't think MS
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by jbarham 16y ago
Indonesia has only been politically free since the late 90's, but is still very corrupt. India and Pakistan are also "free" politically but corruption is pervasive.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Considering that Somalia is ranked the most corrupt country in the world and hasn't had a functioning government in 20 years, the complete absence of government is obviously not a cure for corruption.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Looks like Google is feeling the pressure to keep up w/ Amazon's hosted MySQL service ( http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ ). And they aren't fooling around considering the announcement was made by Wesley Chun (didn't realize he was a Googler, but
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by jbarham 16y ago
MM is the standard abbreviation for million in the financial world. "The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

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