pete23

I like the nipple rubbing!

“I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try to kill God.”

This essay is excellent - gets a little bogged down in rubbing your nose in enough examples, but has enough depth of concept to compensate.

I’d like a Postgres bake off. Playing against Spark on a 24Gb dataset seems silly, too.

I’d go for Moloch rather than Hanlon. This kind of zero-value race for the bottom feeders is too wasteful and tragic.

I’ve upvoted this, but want to underline that this book is truly excellent.

Delegate ruthlessly. Get a 2IC/COO to deal with running operations, concentrate on strategy, people, ensuring your organisation is the right shape, value add.

I can’t believe Github’s renderer fails on ^M.

I "won"! I now feel very very sad.

Source code escrow is standard for this sort of vendor contract.

And then the viva64 "book" is basically a list of open source projects with bugs in spotted by Karpov's pet static analyser. Very little of excitement to see here, just a grab bag of gotchas - pretty much like C++ itself. /runs for cover

Static typing in Java does not give enough information to optimise because of polymorphism. The JIT can observe runtime behaviour and inline method calls at monomorphic sites.

http://insightfullogic.com/2014/May/12/fast-and-megamorphic-...

Worth noting also that Azul's Zing ReadyNow technology for AOT (and indeed their no-pause C4 collector) address some of the specific gripes raised here around the JVM...

Om / ClojureScript ??? / Clojure (I need to check out the options here - REST is good for CRUD but Liberator scares me a bit) Datomic atop Postgres

Euler addicts.

Although some function decomposition of the problem would have been nice to see!

As is yes, as was would sink without trace.

This is brilliant. My kids at 7 and 5 loved it.