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by shellac 9y ago
The sources for this article are provided: Robert M. Solow - 'We'd better watch out' New York Times Book Review, 12 July 1987 Robert Gordon - The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Oxford: Princeton University Press) 2016 p546
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by shellac 9y ago
But there are probably more CPUs running non-java JVM languages ;-) It all depends what you count, as usual. (I was really referring to the healthy non-java jvm language community. JRuby, Scala, and Clojure have lively communities and comme
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by shellac 9y ago
> JVM - Bytecodes only for Java Although it should be mentioned that java language semantics are largely (depending on how you measure them :-) absent from the jvm. (Default methods were a very unusual change in that respect) And, as you
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by shellac 9y ago
> I only thought the erasure was bad because of how Java lacked value types (so my list of T will use heap boxes when T is int). That's covered by a sibling valhalla feature called 'generic specialisation'. See http:&#x2F
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by shellac 9y ago
This looks nice. > GraphQL turns the REST paradigm as it's usually implemented on its head: instead of providing a fixed structure of all types and relations in the system, GraphQL defines a schema which your users can query. I have
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by shellac 9y ago
Only VRML 1.0 was static. VRML 2.0 and VRML97 included animation and events (user and time triggered). As I recall you could program fairly rich behaviours using java or javascript, with collision detection.
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by shellac 10y ago
I wish someone would come up with something better than webrtc. It's such a mess, and appears to be impossible to standardise.
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by shellac 10y ago
To be honest the issues with rubyspec in the past were sociological more than anything else. It was a right pain making contributions, and certainly not a welcoming community. Specs have been part of ruby core for quite a while now, thanks
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by shellac 10y ago
.local is used for link-local domains, for resolution by multicast DNS ('zeroconf'). See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762 . Microsoft used to suggest using it for local networks, but now advise against it.
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by shellac 11y ago
You can, but see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... Are digitised copies of older images protected by copyright? Simply creating a copy of an image won’t result in a new c
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by shellac 11y ago
The check is actually very cheap -- you can check the source yourself -- but as you might expect it won't catch all unsafe use.
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by shellac 11y ago
I assume it's a reference to tracing JIT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_just-in-time_compilati... ). It's a JIT that traces runtime execution, rather than looking at whole method or function bodies. In
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by shellac 11y ago
Au contraire: U+1F594 Unfortunately they name it 'REVERSED VICTORY HAND', which might get people in trouble.
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by shellac 11y ago
> With Rust, we pulled time out of the standard library before 1.0, specifically because we knew it wasn't up to the task. This honestly strikes me a very good response. Saddling a still-growing community with sub-par core datatypes
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by shellac 11y ago
> Go's "time" library is deceptively simple. Has any language initially shipped with a non-broken date / time library? (See: SQL, java, python,...) Clearly a very hard thing to get right, but post-JodaTime there a few
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by shellac 11y ago
> glass is a particular type of liquid ... No, it's not a liquid. > ... so its internal structure is all a jumble That's true. But it doesn't flow, which is a rather significant part of being liquid.
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by shellac 11y ago
It's been going for four years and remains a draft, and rechartered earlier this year. As you say, there are a number of implementations (although I don't know how complete they are), so it's not clear why they aren't pr
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by shellac 11y ago
Fair enough, but how are you defining that web platform? W3C seems like a reasonable bet, but many of the features developers want remain fairly far from recommendation level.
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by shellac 11y ago
There are a few WebRTC tools on iOS, including a browser: https://itunes.apple.com/app/bowser/id560478358?mt=8 . WebRTC remains a W3C draft, of course, and had been dragging on horribly.
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by shellac 11y ago
> Web people, please don't start to use effects that punish the eyes and offend sensibilities of people using particular browsers.
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by shellac 11y ago
It should be 'headquartered'. The UK isn't physically big enough to host such an array, of course.
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by shellac 11y ago
The first bit mean you can't direct a question to more than one god, not each god gets exactly one question.
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by shellac 12y ago
Andrew Orlowski added 'professional contrarian' to his business card many moons ago. (You can say much the same for the Register in general) It's a shame because what used to be a useful source is now just noise. Maybe he&#x2
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by shellac 12y ago
Mahout and especially Weka are popular in the field, both written in java.
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by shellac 12y ago
I'm ignorant here. From what you say it sounds like Typed Clojure is traditionally what we think of as 'types', whereas schema is more along the line of asserts. Is that fair?
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by shellac 12y ago
That's not really true. Java linking happens very late, and so invoking methods at polymorphic call sites does have more in common with 'dynamic' languages than you might think. Hotspot has smalltalk roots, and features like
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by shellac 12y ago
On larger code bases it can help a lot. You get to a point where you need that config object over in some random function and you start weaving it through constructors. At which point a simple DI system really appeals. DI code also tends to
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by shellac 12y ago
Though I understand their reasoning to a degree, it does seem perverse that they adopted the most pedestrian bit of java -- the language -- while jettisoning the crown jewel -- the JVM. It hasn't been trivial to get other JVM languages
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by shellac 12y ago
I think "dynamic platform" would be more accurate. Java has typically been a fairly conservative language sat on a much more interesting VM, a VM which has rather more features in common with dynamic languages like Smalltalk than
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by shellac 12y ago
ubuntu's release cycle is quite different from debian. If you want more recent versions software, but with firmer guarantees concerning support than testing or unstable, ubuntu is a good choice. Having said that for many of our servers

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