kxt

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by kxt 18y ago
Seeing benchmarks conducted by Phoronix always fills me with emptiness on the inside. While I really welcome the idea of benchmarking Linux, their methodology always seem lacking for me. All we get are a bunch of numbers, without any actual
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by kxt 18y ago
I do consider C++ a bad language. The syntax is a MESS, it's quite lacking on the OO front, and the language/STL misses some quite important components (e.g. concurrency, networking). And having an actual ABI would help too. However, it's s
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by kxt 18y ago
The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...
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by kxt 18y ago
Weird, as I was browsing the language shootout, I got the impression that SBCL produces damn fast code, in most cases comparable to the code emited by GCC or Java 6. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=...
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by kxt 18y ago
Yes, the code is available under the BSD license, which is basically a "do whatever you want" license. You can download it, you can build it, you can redistribute it. You can even rebrand it and start selling it, although it wouldn't make y
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by kxt 18y ago
It's distributed under BSD license, no EULA can screw that. Every attempt at it could be averted by getting the BSD licensed code and making own builds without any strings attached. That infamous EULA was intented for other Google services,
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by kxt 18y ago
Also, accoring to http://www.en.rankings.hu/ Firefox 2.x is the most used web browser version in Hungary. (Although IE6 + IE7 combined are still way beyond 50%.)
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by kxt 18y ago
Disclaimer: I don't want to offend you, I have nothing personal against you (I don't even know anything about you). But. I have seen this many times. People have their Great Idea. Like writing a whole new operating system. However, they do
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by kxt 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS