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by mythz 11y ago
His conclusion stands, he's got 1/2 of the claimed perf gains from the using the benchmarks the Edge Team advertised, but when tested against other Independent benchmarks Edge's performance falls dramatically short, making it
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by mythz 11y ago
TL;DR > What to make of these results? It seems like Microsoft has been targeting their optimization effort for the competitor benchmarks in order to show impressive results for their new product. When it comes to more intensive and comp
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by mythz 11y ago
FWIW I've got benchmarks and ports of Norvig's sudoku solver in Python/PyPy, Dart, C#, Ruby and CoffeeScript at: https://github.com/dartist/sudoku_solver
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by mythz 11y ago
PC sales have been declining, for years. No-ones saying there wont be demand for PC's in future - just that the demand is lower than mobile computing devices.
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by mythz 11y ago
It really shouldn't need clarification: "Post-PC" doesn't mean PC's are eliminated from existence becoming a footnote in history, it means that more people will use mobile devices as their primary method of computin
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by mythz 11y ago
iPhone revenue alone is bigger than the revenue of any other Technology Company.
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by mythz 11y ago
Google also just became the 2nd most valuable company in the world behind Apple: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/google-q2-2015-earnings/#.e... Which both look in great shape for the Post-PC future havi
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by mythz 11y ago
Sweet glad to finally see iPod Touch getting some modern love, just wished they came with bigger screens. Does Android have a comparable device? i.e. Internet/Music sans-phone in your pocket that's great at capturing quality vids&
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by mythz 11y ago
"I receive about 1200 and send about 200 (emails per day)" - Wow, not sure how he gets anything done with that amount of context switching.
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by mythz 11y ago
Sure if enough popular Internet properties targeting the mobile web decided to commit commercial suicide and started purposely ignoring one of its most lucrative user-bases. Should enough websites do this, I'd expect it would just incr
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by mythz 11y ago
Apple serves its Users not Developers, most of whom appreciate there's only 1 icon they need to click on to access the Internet. Only developers think that having multiple browsers to choose from is a value-add - for most users it just
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by mythz 11y ago
Personally mandating a single WebView on iOS ends up being a good thing for iOS Users: a fast, responsive, quality rendering engine that has the same experience everywhere and gets updated with each major iOS release - dramatically reducing
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by mythz 11y ago
Douglas Crockford has an interesting video on why CA system is broken and how it can be fixed in his recent "upgrading the web" talk at: https://angularu.com/VideoSession/2015sf/upgrading-the-web Essenti
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by mythz 11y ago
Each threading issue reported ended up being traced back to sharing a RedisClient instance across multiple threads, e.g. by using a static RedisClient instance, registering RedisClient in IOC, etc - i.e. instead of using one of the ThreadSa
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by mythz 11y ago
The ServiceStack.Redis client uses pooled ThreadSafe Client Managers by design: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis#redis-cli... Which works very much like a DB Connection, where the Connection Factory i
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by mythz 11y ago
WCF's REST is the ugliest implementation of HTTP/REST I've seen from any framework, whilst its RPC method signatures, SOAP format and code-gen client proxies provide one of the most fragile combination of technologies used in
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by mythz 12y ago
V8 is adding optimizations for asm: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/03/asm-speedups-everywhere/ Asm.js isn't a solution for JavaScript developers, it provides an efficient compilation target for porting
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by mythz 12y ago
Your headline of "...this is poor API Design" is clearly not written as here's a "REST-ful alternative to using POST for large queries". There's a strong case for taking advantage of every technology at your di
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by mythz 12y ago
So the solution for DropBox to overcome their size limitations with GET is to: - Use a new REPORT verb that will confuse API developers who've never heard of it (and is likely unsupported by existing HTTP middleware/libraries&#x2F
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by mythz 12y ago
As it's relevant, ServiceStack also provides integration with XCode that lets you generate a typed API for easily consuming C# JSON Web Services in Swift iOS/OSX Apps: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceSt
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by mythz 12y ago
var odds = evens.map(v => v + 1); Is about as readable as it gets (inspired by C#, Java8, CoffeeScript), as a benefit of succinct syntax sugar we get intuitive `this` binding - i.e. pit of success. [ 'prop_' +
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by mythz 12y ago
One of the most naive comments I've read for a while. Apple maintains one of the largest software portfolio's in the world, even Tim Cook doesn't think Apple is a hardware company and makes billions a quarter directly from it
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by mythz 12y ago
Finding Swift really buggy atm - where XCode, Swift Compiler and SourceCode service routinely crashes multiple times a day for me. A lot of my time is spent sympathizing with the compiler and getting hit with hard fought lessons on what thi
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by mythz 12y ago
Swift has some land mine issues where the compiler can hit snags handling certain snippets of code (e.g casting to/from Any/AnyObject, method overloading based on constraints, etc) which if you have enough of them will segfault th
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by mythz 12y ago
Microsoft have already announced that Visual Studio community edition is free, which also means less revenue from VS.NET licenses as well. Although VS.NET is not a major revenue source, most of the revenue comes for Server licenses, e.g. Wi
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by mythz 12y ago
Wow $74.6 Billion Revenue and $18 Billion profit on 74.5M iPhones in a quarter is nuts. Apple also mentioned in the Conference call that the volatile exchange rate also hurt sales numbers by 4% (vs a constant exchange rate) which they'
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by mythz 12y ago
Because Mike Pall is a genius and likes working on LuaJIT so doesn't take much to sponsor him to work on it: http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
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by mythz 12y ago
Java's one of the worst language examples of using FP collections I've seen. Even with hindsight I still find this to be uglier and unnecessarily more verbose than it needs to be. E.g. same Example in Dart: class Article {
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by mythz 12y ago
What he said, but C#. C#'s one of the most versatile languages which can target most of the popular platforms, e.g: iOS/Android (Xamarin), WindowsPhone, Windows, Linux, OSX, Silverlight, PS4, XBox (announced), Unity3D and NaCL. C#

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