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Asteroid mining announcement at 1030 PDT 4/24(spacevidcast.com)
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Designing Hypermedia APIs, a book with frequent updates(designinghypermediaapis.com)
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by oconnor0 14y ago
This seems like a unnecessarily antagonistic comment. It's not like Eul & Guinsoo are gods & IceFrog's cretin. As I understand it, Guinsoo had some good ideas but couldn't balance them well enough to make the game fair & IceFrog
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by oconnor0 14y ago
Creating a new object is never free, but it used to be far more expensive. To my knowledge the original Java GCs weren't compacting & had to find the best place in the heap to stick a new object. This required a linear search of the ava
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Interesting, I think they had an object system that they removed in favor of type classes, but objects have returned.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
This is just downloading a single static text file so there's nothing to optimize.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Is "The Codecademy for Higher-Level Languages" HN editor embellishment? I fail to see how Programr is for higher-level languages than Codecademy & how it's like Codecademy. Edit: This is TechCrunch editorialization. My confusion still s
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by oconnor0 15y ago
No, Ruby's implementation of it's interactive mode is similar to Python's - not via data structures, but via strings.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
That assumes that a programmer working 70 hours is more productive than one working 40 hours.
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Ivan Sutherland: The Sequential Prison(infoq.com)
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Why the JVM hate?
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Update on Java's Fork/Join from Doug Lea(cs.oswego.edu)
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On Iteration - Ranges: Alexandrescu's Iterator Replacement for D(informit.com)
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Not just vacuums, but the US intentionally propping up the original crazy's replacement.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
One of my big concerns about the US military getting involved in "removing" some crazed warlord from power is that our track record of doing that around the world indicates we do a piss-poor job of finding better replacements.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
This ("the language you use doesn't matter") has never made sense to me. I get that what we produce is of value to others while the tools we use isn't of value & doesn't - directly - matter. But, I know that certain languages are closer
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Why wouldn't CC cover this?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Yes, but the steps from "understand HTML and JavaScript" to display that somehow formatted & execute the JS are big & somewhat important for a web browser.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Are you arguing that RDBMS can handle all of the data, performance, and scalability requirements as well as a kv store while also in BCNF?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Certainly, but there are circumstances - say high-performance math & data heavy stuff - that benefits greatly from a shared memory implementation. And the ease of use of multi-process architectures needs to be improved as well.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Does JoCaml rewrite the GC? Or how else does it get around the GC issue?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
> So what's impractical about Ocaml? The biggest issue Ocaml has is that its GC is single-threaded which basically removes the ability to do parallel programming inside a single executable. You have to resort to message passing between
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Because that makes it less nonsensical. :-)
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by oconnor0 15y ago
I wonder if it would be possible (or how difficult it would be) to modify LuaJIT to add what RPython provides: "tracing the user's program while it is being traced by your interpreter."
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That seems like an odd design decision. Edit: I wonder what motivated it. "i" for images and no one uses it to italicize text anymore?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
How does structural subtyping help you implement automatic resource management?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Does it seem to offer functionality proportional to the cost spent learning the system?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Can you explain more what you mean about SQLite having roughly its own VM?
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by oconnor0 15y ago
> Unfortunately, we live in the world where people eat people. I'd be up for changing the world so people stop eating each other.
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by oconnor0 15y ago
Which is why nifty little libraries like Trove, FastUtil, and HPPC exist.

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