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nimrody
17y ago
Memory of course. I don't think there's much of a difference in runtime (ignoring cache misses, etc.)
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nimrody
17y ago
While coroutines may help in writing more maintainable/readable code, they make for a very inefficient structure since they have to keep a separate stack. Having many concurrent coroutines is probably a bad idea. This is the classic trade-o
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nimrody
17y ago
Making a good lens for these small sensor cameras is much easier compared to film or even APSC sized sensors (most DSLRs)
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nimrody
17y ago
Besides recommending "Programming Erlang" which is a well written book, this article offers nothing new.
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nimrody
17y ago
You seem to indicate that Japan's carriers has less strict certification process than AT&T's. My personal experience with NTT DoCoMo (one of the largest carriers in Japan) has been exactly the opposite. Certificaiton has been a very dif
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nimrody
17y ago
Depends on the definition of "soft". Sometimes you have to be very optimistic (better term: aggressive) regard product features and schedule. This will drive you further and faster towards your goals. You can't always make all deadlines and
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nimrody
17y ago
Many people still don't get it and use hotmail and similar services (Hey... they have cute icons :) Seems to me like gmail enthusiasm is mostly the realm of geeks. Some people even dislike the automatic threading.
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nimrody
17y ago
Excel really took off on the Mac platform -- at first. So at least there they had no advantage. I agree that on Windows they always had an edge. But the truth is - everyone ignored the platform (everyone except users). Microsoft was heavily
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nimrody
17y ago
Making a good product is not always about revolution. Many times it is about improving and refining. Remember the story of Microsoft and Lotus? Microsoft Excel won because it was a better product. Nothing revolutionary. Just better. Microso
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18y ago
It works, but is more difficult to debug and, of course, to integrate with existing libraries. I don't think many have taken this path - GWT has not exactly taken the developer community by storm. Even minimal approaches (e.g. QT extending
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18y ago
Nobody uses PHP because it is beautiful... Creating your own version would make you loose the one true benefit of PHP: easy deployment using many available hosting services. Unless, of course, you manage to make it popular as the original (