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by norswap 10y ago
It seems quite mature already, runs Rails and passes 100% of the Ruby specs. I think it's going to become the default in JRuby, but probably not before Java9 comes out, which includes a crucial component that enables Graal to sit on to
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JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s important to optimise the tricky parts [pdf](ia801503.us.archive.org)
1 points by norswap 10y ago|2 comments
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by norswap 10y ago
I was kind of hoping for a document that outlined principles to make the engineering process truly antifragile, i.e. one that would thrive under contingencies. Honestly, I have trouble fathoming how such a thing would be even possible in th
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by norswap 10y ago
Except that the project has a life of its own :)
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by norswap 10y ago
I'd be more interested by pointers for Javascript front-end principles, because I feel like I'm lacking some background to understand much of what I'm encountering, whereas there's quite a bit about machine learning (whi
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by norswap 10y ago
- Deduction system, in particular as relating to logic programming such as Datalog. This is more or less in link with my research interest in programming languages - I feel like these techniques could have a lot of implication in compilers.
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by norswap 10y ago
To contextualize the discussion on "open access" (the practice of editors that ask for a sum of money in order to make the paper available). It costs a lot: about 1k for ACM venues. Currently I have to pay for this out of my own b
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by norswap 10y ago
I tend to agree but don't overlook the downside of rfcnt loops. It's quite easy to introduce them (for instance, when creating closures in Objective-C), hence negating the big selling point of gc in the first place.
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by norswap 10y ago
So in summary: it's great because it makes more money. The implication that this leads to a better movie offering is dubious. Would you say better movies are coming out now than 10/20 years ago? Even if more movies are coming (whi
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by norswap 10y ago
You don't really provide an argument in favour of your point. I, for one, question the notion that life must have a "meaning". Life is action, a sequence of distractions, one after the other. If your meaning leads to you to t
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by norswap 11y ago
Shouldn't they improve the terrible mess that the app store is, instead of "educating" developers?
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About building-block mindset(discourse.piston.rs)
1 points by norswap 11y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 11y ago
Windows NT is quite sound technology. At least the kernel. On the other hand... the kernel doesn't matter. It's the userland that poses problems most of the time. In in this domain, Microsoft is much much ahead of any *nix except
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by norswap 11y ago
Ah but you can't. The GC will still pause and trace no matter what. As far as I know, you can only control allocation at the level of "retainment": you can keep something from being GC'ed by keeping a reference to it. Po
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by norswap 11y ago
I didn't know, thank you everyone!
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by norswap 11y ago
I personally always felt that "full applications" were disconnected from the Unix philosophy. By definition, such an application does many things: fetch things from the network, display them, sort them, ... it talks many protocols
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by norswap 11y ago
One flaw in this article is that it assumes "naive malloc/free use". It assumes that a program written in C and in Java (for instance) will need to perform the same amount of allocations. This is far from the truth. First, C
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by norswap 11y ago
I've never ever gotten any good results with a Java profiler. HPROF runs, but its results are garbage. Yourkit and VisualVM are apparently not able to handle the heat of a CPU intensive application and crash or are generally unusable (
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by norswap 11y ago
I really wonder what would have happened if Yannis Varoufakis had had his way and a Greek default had happened last year. Like I have literally no clue, but some part of me wonders if it would have been better than the drawn out mess that w
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by norswap 11y ago
That may be so, but once the cat's out of the bag, there is no putting it back in. Additionally, it wouldn't bother me to submit political authorities to more stringent standards of transparency regarding the office they hold.
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by norswap 11y ago
You're not addressing the criticism. Don't apologize, change the TOS to make it acceptable.
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by norswap 11y ago
Replying to myself, to say that it is interesting how must people replied to this to comment about the "null != variable" thing. Kinda makes my point. I suppose it could be explained by the fact that it's much easier to say s
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by norswap 11y ago
Oh yes, I agree. But it's a shame it's all people ever talk about, when there's this much bigger thing that looms beneath the surface.
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by norswap 11y ago
Like often with this kind of article it barely scratches the surface. "null != variable" will confuse people is downright silly. People confused by this won't have an inkling of what any non-hello-world program does. The rest
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by norswap 11y ago
I kind of agree. But I just use plain text files with bullets. I haven't seen a compelling argument to justify learning all the concepts and keystrokes of org-mode. I don't need all the bell and whistles. Export to HTML? Why?
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by norswap 11y ago
Well if you believe tech is the future, and they own infrastructure, they own the future. Bit of a dramatic formulation, but they do or will wield significant influence, even though they'll probably never be within the sight of the gen
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by norswap 11y ago
Totally agree. The reason is simple: you can't count on the goodwill of your audience, you have to write in a defensive manner expecting an adversarial audience (at least the reviewers, probably the people you have in mind when you wri
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by norswap 11y ago
A PhD gives you a lot of freedom (time) to work on something you consider interesting. It's not without other downsides (stressful), but it's a trade-off worth considering. Also, in Belgium where I'm from (but I believe more
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by norswap 11y ago
But do you need the VM for something specific, is it part of some philosophical/aesthetic guideline, or is it just something fun to do?
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by norswap 11y ago
Pretty cool. I'd like to know more about the design decisions. Why registers? Why those specifically? And more.

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