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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
No released language is making use of it, largely because there are no released versions of the JDK that have a usable implementation of it. However, Oracle is working on a JavaScript implementation that leverages it: http://www.wiki.jvmla
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
There are a few reasons one might choose to use JRuby. The most frequently cited reason is to take advantage of JRuby's generally quite excellent Java interoperability. In many cases it may be the best way to introduce Ruby into an organiza
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
On one hand, I agree with him. The software ecosystems we work in have a whole lot of needless and incidental complexity. I could go on and on about the insanely and overly complicated things that developers -- especially ones like Ryan Dah
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequi
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
I've been loving my adjustable desk. I spent the majority of my time standing, but sometimes it's great to sit down. I purchased a (relatively) inexpensive hand-cranked base from http://www.kitchensource.com/table-bases/gb-1000-1001.htm .
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
Rubinius and PyPy take quite different approaches to solving the same general problem. It's inaccurate to analogize them. Rubinius specifies a bytecode (see http://rubini.us/doc/en/virtual-machine/instructions/ ) and implements a VM that e
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Garbage-First Garbage Collection: New in JDK 7(labs.oracle.com)
2 points by stephenjudkins 15y ago|0 comments
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Netflix vs Blockbuster, 2004-2010(go-digital.net)
17 points by stephenjudkins 15y ago|10 comments
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
I think JavaScript will stick around for quite awhile. However, the viability and popularity of languages that compile to JavaScript will probably continue to increase. Besides CoffeeScript, which mostly only offers syntactic improvements t
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
"We are four faster than Hadoop on the Thor side. If Hadoop needs 1,000 nodes we can do it with 250 – that means less cooling and data center space." Many (most?) Hadoop jobs are IO-bound. It's unlikely that switching from Java to C
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
No, one of the constructors for String takes only char[] as a parameter. You can pass in an arbitrary array of chars, even invalid UTF-16. You're correct that well-written code should never do this. However, there is no guarantee that some
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
java.lang.String uses UTF-16 internally. It's a wrapper around an array of 16-bit chars. Thus, it's possible for one to create a String which is NOT valid unicode by abusing surrogate pairs. Thus, the JVM has no native datatype that represe
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
The US government is beyond corrupt and beyond any possible reform and nobody cares. my team versus yours bullshit It won't happen in my lifetime. I know that much. Have you ever volunteered for a local politician? Paid close
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Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru(businessweek.com)
5 points by stephenjudkins 15y ago|1 comments
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
There are a few obstacles to easily using Scala on Android. Namely, the Scala standard library is too large to be easily "dexed" by the Android toolchain. Using Proguard or a similar treeshaker removes unused classes, but it's a bit of a ha
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
From what I've heard, using 50% as much power for the same performance as the previous generation still will not be sufficient to bring Intel's Atom performance/energy consumption ratio to that offered by ARM chips. However, it's a huge lea
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Enumeration-Based I/O with Iteratees in Scala(apocalisp.wordpress.com)
1 points by stephenjudkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by stephenjudkins 15y ago
A friend of mine (a relatively well-known person who has contributed a good deal to free software) once introduced himself to Richard Stallman. Richard Stallman immediately told him he was evil because he had once worked for Microsoft. Beha
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Video: How Twitter Scales with Scala(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by stephenjudkins 16y ago|0 comments
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
From reading the author's other posts, the clear implication is that Lisp (and only the author's preferred flavors of Lisp, not pale imitations like Clojure) offers the only possibility of breaking out of the hopelessly broken paradigms acc
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
There isn't as much new features in this release compared to the 2.7.7 -> 2.8.0 upgrade, but this is still a notable release. Not mentioned in the post but apparently included with this release it the new "Dynamic" trait, which enables
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Scala 2.9.0 RC1 released(scala-lang.org)
10 points by stephenjudkins 16y ago|2 comments
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
How are the the PyPy developers supporting themselves? Are they being paid salaries from the project, which (if I understand correctly) is currently being funded as an EU research project? Obviously the PyPy code will deliver vastly more th
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
If I'm looking for the most reasonably explanation for Apple's behavior that still manages to cast them in a good light, I'll read Gruber. If I'm looking for the most reasonable possible explanation, full stop, I'll read elsewhere.
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
I'm not sure why I read John Gruber anymore. I get my hopes up that perhaps I'll see some of the smart, incisive that I remember from years ago, but instead I see another pretty baseless apology for Apple's behavior. He may actually be corr
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
Fabrice Bellard is one the most impressive hackers around. His other accomplishments include QEMU, launching FFMPEG, and discovering the fastest (at the time) method for calculating digits of pi. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Be
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
No. The JVM spins up several threads, even when running a single-threaded Java program. Threads and fork() do not mix well together, and using threads is heavily entrenched in the Java world. I doubt Oracle intends to do the work to make fo
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
JRuby is pretty unique among non-reference language implementations in that it's often more performant, powerful, and stable than the standard Ruby implementations. It's been rock-solid for us recently, and integrates with Java surprisingly
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by stephenjudkins 16y ago
From the perspective of a reader not steeped in functional programming, your proposed solution to logging is probably unpersuasive, for the reasons the above commenter articulated better than I can. * When using loaded terms such as "dysfun

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