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by prog 16y ago
I have generally found simple text files to be most effective in actually solving problems. The moment it moves to richer formats, some amount of mental bandwidth is taken up by the presentation aspect.
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by prog 16y ago
Thats how I started. Following this I also made it a point to read at least a little vim documentation (:h) every day. Its very detailed and helpful. There is also the Vim book[1] by Steve Oualline which is also available free as a PDF. Rea
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by prog 16y ago
In many software companies I have seen powerpoints replace design documents and technical solutions. The most recent case I came across was in a company which needed to improve product quality and reduce testing time. As an engineer, to me
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by prog 16y ago
I was expecting to read something on interpreters, jit, or virtual machines.
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by prog 16y ago
Scala compiler does self-tail calls so in theory Java compiler should be able to do it. But IIUC doing tail calls between functions is not possible (or at least not worth the effort) on the JVM.
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by prog 16y ago
Thats the reason I tend to avoid tech stocks. Its not possible to say if a product will work. Yahoo was doing so well till Google came along. I wouldn't invest in Google though (for the same reason) even though its a great company and I lov
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by prog 16y ago
By trading do you mean investment (as in long term buy-and-hold, 5-10years)? The strategy is sound (and have a similar approach) but it makes sense only for a buy-and-hold approach. For the short term the quality of the company product does
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VMKit: JVM and .Net runtimes for LLVM(vmkit.llvm.org)
71 points by prog 16y ago|14 comments
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Exploring Dynamism(infoq.com)
6 points by prog 16y ago|0 comments
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by prog 16y ago
I was always curious about this. How are compile times for large projects?
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by prog 16y ago
I keep trying Netbeans and Eclipse but always come back to vim + terminator + mvn/ant
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by prog 16y ago
Looks like statusly is for sale. http://statuslyforsale.tumblr.com/ The post that talks about this: http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-lab...
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by prog 16y ago
That sounds too silly to be true. Especially with OpenJDK and other implementation around. But one can never tell how businesses work :)
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by prog 16y ago
That particular project (simulation) required a lot of bit twiddling and working with data of various sizes 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit. So having the specific types nailed at compile time helped. Lack of unsigned data on the JVM was a pain thoug
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by prog 16y ago
I tend to agree most of the post apart from "1. I think Clojure is much simpler". I am not saying that Scala is simpler, just that its a matter of preference. After spending a fair amount of time using both languages (5-6 months each) IMO o
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by prog 16y ago
I use Python as my primary scripting language but I spent some time looking at Perl 6 in the context of Parrot and it really has a lot of good ideas that post mentions: - multi-methods - rules (builtin parsing capability) - macros
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Help sponsor Mercurial development(article.gmane.org)
13 points by prog 16y ago|4 comments
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Updating the Mozilla Public License(blog.lizardwrangler.com)
1 points by prog 16y ago|0 comments
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by prog 16y ago
I once moved a project from ClearCase to CVS because the performance of our ClearCase setup was _really_ eating into our time. I didn't have any major complaints from SVN as well. Some reasons I moved to bzr are: - repository backups are f
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by prog 16y ago
Thanks for the pointers. Sleep looks interesting. I will probably give it an deeper look. Is this interpreted or bytecode compiled?
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by prog 16y ago
> I have a 1-line script that does that, automatically adding time stamps to the name of the tarball. How is checking in your version simpler? The important question is, do you have unit tests for that script :)
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by prog 16y ago
Irrespective of what Torvald says, I would probably choose svn over tarballs. But you should look also at bzr and hg. I don't think they integrate with Visual Studio but have good guis.
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by prog 16y ago
git already has this in core and bzr has a rebase plugin[1]. I think this problem has been solved for quite some time now :) [1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/rebase-plugin.htm...
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by prog 16y ago
This is my pet peeve with all DVCSes. I tried this with bzr, hg and git and all fail. Not sure if any other DVCSes handle it. I don't see it happening anytime soon as long as it justified using "its _source_ control". There are programming
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by prog 16y ago
bzr has support for filtered views[1] if thats what you mean. [1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/filtere...
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by prog 16y ago
bzr, hg and darcs are not too complex to use.
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How you know your open source software project is doomed to fail(spot.livejournal.com)
29 points by prog 16y ago|23 comments
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by prog 17y ago
Thats what I have in my gvimrc :) And for things like copy/paste across apps the + buffer works nicely. "+yy "+p and so on.
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by prog 17y ago
I am just wondering how involved Gosling is in JDK (in terms of roadmap, new features and such) now a days ... or is it primarily driven by the community?
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by prog 17y ago
Can anyone involved in or close to the Java/OpenJDK comment on what this might mean for Java/JDK/JVM?

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