sfraser

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Apple Gives This Consumer the Business(comm-tech-culture.blogspot.com)
3 points by sfraser 16y ago|1 comments
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by sfraser 16y ago
Thanks for the follow up. I do hope to learn more about F#, I am hearing good things about it.
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by sfraser 16y ago
I think you are right in this case - I updated my example code above to use bitwise and it is running in the same amount of time. (100,000 iterations in about 6 milliseconds)
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by sfraser 16y ago
Thanks... my experience with clojure on the JVM is it is in general slower than optimally tuned Java code. I really can't imagine that any of the other languages you listed would easily outperform the code I have here, but maybe since the u
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by sfraser 16y ago
That is crazy fast... funny, but based on your response I am guessing you don't know why. What could possibly explain such a big difference? Understanding this is what separates a seasoned pro from someone throwing out trollbait comments a
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by sfraser 16y ago
You have a point... sadly most of the Java code I have seen does look like the code on github. Or worse! ;)
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by sfraser 16y ago
To be clear I <3 clojure, but I'm taking the bait just for fun: 1) The chunk of Java code shows a complete program - the others show function definitions 2) The Java is written purposely to be as verbose as possible 3) The Java sends it
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by sfraser 16y ago
You would still be able to run the Open JDK. There is a port for the Mac, but if I am not mistaken it uses the X Server and is not as well integrated with the graphics layer of OS X desktop. Example: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/so
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by sfraser 16y ago
Hi everyone, I added the text as a comment to the image so you can read/copy it more easily.
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Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X(flic.kr)
197 points by sfraser 16y ago|160 comments
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Play "Colossal Cave Adventure" via Voice Commands(610dearben.com)
1 points by sfraser 16y ago|1 comments
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by sfraser 17y ago
I had the same thought - also note that the software powering the Squeezebox server AND the devices is open source! In fact they just flipped the player software (written in LUA) over to BSD, here's the commit: http://svn.slimdevices.com/j
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CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets calls blogger re: post on "data hogs"(kom105.blogspot.com)
4 points by sfraser 17y ago|1 comments
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by sfraser 17y ago
It seems so appropriate that this truly evil venture is headed up by someone coming from Microsoft.
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by sfraser 18y ago
I will be giving it either in April or May at the Philly Java User's Group. ping me on twitter (sfraser) for email of JUG organizer. -Scott