trb8

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by trb8 9y ago
> I feel like the odd one out. You're not. I have the late 2016 model. It replaced my ~2013-2014 model and I consider it an improvement. The Touch Bar / touch-id is a (mostly irrelevant) improvement over a row of keys that I ne
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by trb8 9y ago
> “Thank god Apple gave X a review copy before me” Ah yes. Excellent usage of quotation marks for your interpretation of Gruber’s thoughts. Nothing at all dishonest about that.
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by trb8 9y ago
> I was in SV last year for a couple of months during the election, and everyone I met were all paid up members of the church of political correctness up front, but when you spoke to these people in private there were a lot of people who
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by trb8 9y ago
> IMHO his best book is his first mass market one: "Fooled by Randomness". It contains all the big ideas of his subsequent books and is an east, entertaining read. Let me second this suggestion. "Fooled by Randomness"
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by trb8 10y ago
> Their 10-year old bottling is a bit nicer, but almost twice the price. I'm a bit confused by this statement. At least when I've seen it, the Quarter Cask is noticeably more expensive then the 10 year. $60 vs. $45. Which now t
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by trb8 10y ago
> Have you ever worked in a government secure environment? Regardless of the politics, if anyone else other than her had done this they would have been fired on the spot, and had possible charges brought depending on the outcome of the i
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Precipice – A JVM Library for Isolating and Monitoring Task Execution(uncontended.net)
2 points by trb8 11y ago|0 comments
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by trb8 11y ago
Precipice - A java library providing monitoring and back pressure for task execution https://github.com/tbrooks8/Precipice Precipice allows you to plug in a variety of metrics to collect result and latency information
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High-Concurrency HTTP Clients on the JVM(blog.paralleluniverse.co)
3 points by trb8 11y ago|0 comments
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by trb8 11y ago
Sure. Unsafe in terms of program correctness. By that measure, new Thread() is unsafe. But that's not a reasonable definition of "unsafe". This could crash the JVM is a reasonable definition. And fences and ordered instructio
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by trb8 11y ago
Yes. Also there are many "safe" operations on "unsafe". Such as memory fences.
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by trb8 11y ago
Confluent seems to be assembling a pretty impressive team. https://twitter.com/jaykreps/status/609408453920985088 https://twitter.com/nehanarkhede/status/615549407597989888 https:/
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Developing Precise Lock-Free Rolling Metrics in Java(uncontended.net)
1 points by trb8 11y ago|0 comments
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by trb8 11y ago
I would be hesitant of this so easily accepting this view due to selection bias. Java and C++ are often found in huge, legacy, or enterprise oriented code bases. The are plenty of ways to use the abstractions in Java and C++ to write nice c