jbarham

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   by jbarham 17y ago

   No, it's a false dichotomy to say that because Bill Gates dropped out of college that all degrees are therefore "silly and worthless". He dropped out of Harvard (where simply being accepted is an achievement in itself) in order to found th
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   It's a book but Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo has been well reviewed.
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   Nonsense. Just because the Python interpreter is written in C does not mean that you can overrun Python strings and smash the stack like you can w/ C strings.
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   Python C extension modules can release the GIL while they're running which allows for true concurrency. See this Google code search http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=python.org+lang%3Ac+Py_BE... for example usage.
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   Source please. And define "control". Investment bankers might "control" my retirement fund but they certainly don't own it. The difference is rather important.
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   Given your extreme naivety about the nature of the money supply, I highly recommend that you take an introductory course on macro-economics. And where is it written that the "working class" aren't allowed to buy foreign currencies? Given t
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   by jbarham 17y ago

   Yes, goroutines are that lightweight. Rob Pike's introductory tech talk has a demo where he runs a program w/ 100,000 communicating goroutines in 1.5 seconds on a Mac laptop. See the slides at http://golang.org/doc/go_talk-20091030.pdf ,