n3rd

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   by n3rd 6y ago

   My dad worked on AS/400. When I first saw it, it looked like he was working in the matrix with that black/green color scheme.
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   by n3rd 6y ago

   > It felt ancient back then too! Sir, the politically correct term today is..vintage.
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   by n3rd 6y ago

   You could get a $600 bill of AWS Lambda for forgetting a ; today too Not much has changed.
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   by n3rd 6y ago

   35% of the total installed capacity world wide today is Linux on Z and is growing at double digit rates each year. RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu and most recently CoreOS (with OpenShift) all run beautifully. Ultimately, it's just hardware and it&
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   by n3rd 12y ago

   Oculus + this.
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   by n3rd 13y ago

   If by "lack of", you mean "4 choices": DirectByteBuffers (Azul/IBM/OpenJDK/Oracle etc) Packed Objects (IBM) Real-time Java (Azul/IBM) Unsafe (Azul/Oracle/IBM/OpenJDK etc)
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   by n3rd 13y ago

   IBM's Java 7 and 8 beta's already have this. It's called Packed Objects and it lets you have have high density data with no pointer chasing along with a much cleaner interface to off-heap languages like C/C++/C# and