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The Promise and Perils of a World Filled With Touchscreens (fastcodesign.com)
3 points by wcsun 15y ago|0 comments
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by wcsun 15y ago
First, finish lectures by Professor Gilbert Strang. http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/ To my memory, session notes of CS229 is good enough for understanding SVM and gaussian distributions. Also watch youtube videos. http://www.stanford.edu/cl
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by wcsun 15y ago
nice to hear that. parallel computing is the reason i choose scala.
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by wcsun 15y ago
Go is designed more like a language for the web. it has a special niche in server programming with ease in memory management and concurrency.
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by wcsun 15y ago
So, you are asking people to learn sbt? http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/BuildConfigu...
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by wcsun 15y ago
Ironically, Sequoia Capital invested both in DianDian and Tumblr. Great Firewall is really good for copying and monetizing startup businss. http://fan.renren.it/a/ITxinwen/hulianwang/20110325/79864.ht...
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by wcsun 15y ago
He emphasized on the vision. Great craftsmanship follows.
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by wcsun 15y ago
I think Facebook does not need to layout, test and contract manufacture motherboard for the servers. Each iteration in hardware cost lots of money. This is not agile. Better make the specs and have ODM companies handle that. http://en.wiki
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by wcsun 15y ago
Considering GC and concurrency issues, this talk is good for people making language choices on the JVM. In the end, he said he personally thinks STM is not a good way to program concurrency. And, I think immutable data is good for GC.
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by wcsun 15y ago
I agree. Posting this kind of content can be a plot to block out HN in China. Lots of site get banned like this.