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Pragmatically, cost and ease of access is especially important in suppressed countries or ones with unstable infrastructure. While the devices you're talking about has lots of conv…

Phoronix paints a very different picture, especially in non-synthetic workloads[1]. Gravitron2 looks like a nice speedup over the first generation but either the optimization isn't…

Systems Languages are considered niche these days?

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Implicit is basically just an implementation detail. The idea of only allowing one typeclass instance per data is generally referred as confluence and you're correct in that scala …

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Clearly a chatroom with half a million individuals is unusable from pretty much every perspective. That said, a chat server with N chatrooms and a total population of 500k users so…

Menlo Park, Ca - Full time - Onsite - Frontend, Backend, Dev Ops, ML/AI Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some …

Menlo Park, Ca - Full time - Onsite - Frontend, Backend, Dev Ops, ML/AI Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some …

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Currently Ops, Systems, and UI are our big needs. Great ML folks are always welcome as well!

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That's not really true. Erlang's VM is fantastic at GC with thousands upon thousands of green processes multiplexed onto the system threads, allowing soft realtime performance. Sim…

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Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some important challenges created by the shift from desktop to mobile. Our st…

It's a huge issue on mobile. Multiple rendering engines requiring the world to write software to a spec is what prevents people from writing code dependent on a particular browser …

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It's amazing how fast you can go when you don't care about safety ;) That said, for all non trivial work loads, the latest postgres is quite the work horse, but of course requires …

I considered editing my other comment but decided instead to break it out. There are a couple of complexities that your comment illustrates well: First, continuous math _is_ availa…

Two good examples from the Scala community would be Algebird[1] from Twitter which uses Monoids as a main abstraction and Spire[2], which might be the best numerical library out th…

Ah, but that's a matter of design - except now we have strong constructs from which to consider our problem. We will never get away from developing the architecture of our system, …

An important realization I made a while back was that design methodologies do little to address program correctness, which is almost always the wildcard on deliverables; buggy soft…

I think modern software engineering really needs to start banking on provable languages with strong type systems. Instead of hoping and testing with Monte Carlo sims, let's prove a…

You could, you know, pay for a subscription. If you're bumping up on the limit of free articles per month, you're clearly getting some value from the paper. There are worse things …

Most of the negatives are heavily focused on implementation rather than design, which I don't disagree with. However, the positives of targeting any language at a stable byte code …