speckledjim

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   by speckledjim 15y ago

   Either you care about shipping products, and making things of value, or you care about what the latest fashionable language to do it in is.
2. 122.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   > So, no, Scala is not faster than Java and probably won't be for a long time. Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but how can a language that compiles down to Java, be faster than Java? Does C code execute faster than machine cod
3. 123.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   Colors tend to be used in programming quite a bit. I'd expect quite a lot of british programmers/techies tend to write grey, even though it's not how it's spelt here. Just as we techies often write 'color' instead of 'colour'.
4. 124.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   whoooosh
5. 125.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   There's obvious opt-out things for the miniscule amount of people who care. Exactly the same as the "search term leakage" rubbish.
6. 126.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html Searches per day in Feb average = 197,687 Searches per day in May average = 205,759 FUD certainly won't grow DDG out of the extreme niche it's in.
7. 127.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   Spreading FUD about tracking search terms etc didn't seem to help DDG last time. I doubt this will have any effect either. DDG: If you want to grow, don't keep attacking the big search engines with FUD that only a miniscule % of people care
8. 128.▲
   by speckledjim 15y ago

   $0.30 - $0.50 eCPM? On Reddit? You high. They'd be extremely lucky to get $0.03 eCPM.