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Interestingly, it works if you request the desktop site: they're explicitly blocking Firefox Mobile.

Bear in mind that the comparison here is against ProRes 4:4:4, which encodes I-frames only. This is basicaclly just compressed whole-frame snapshots--like a slide-show of JPEGs--wi…

Isn't the very first example in that article flawed? void decrement_reference_counter(rc_base* obj) { if (0 == atomic_decrement(obj->rc)) delete obj; } This is classic test-then-ac…

> For instance, what if there are a pair of processes that work in unison and one of them dies? That would depend upon whether the programmer linked them or not. If they're linked,…

Microsoft should release their own Linux distribution along with it. Imagine how attractive that might be: a version of Linux, with support contracts, that is guaranteed to work wi…

To a certain extent, he did. From the article: "Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate veg…

Absolutely. Explosions in the Sky and Monkey3 are favourites of mine for coding. It's also easier to deal with lyrics in foreign languages, simply because my mind can't latch on to…

The team responsible for the JIT in Self went on to develop HotSpot (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot#History ). Probably just to prove the point, someone wrote a Smalltalk…

Titles can be important for dealing with clients. Many organisations won't even give you time on the phone unless they see that you're a 'Managing Director' or 'VP of Sales'. If yo…

Strangely, the investment bank I used to work at relied heavily on Perl, without most people even realising it. A huge volume of live rates information formed the basis for a large…

Agreed. The system I worked on had scheduled releases every two weeks, with a smattering of emergency releases in between. In some cases, simply being able to reliably price a give…

I spent four years writing Smalltalk (VisualWorks and GemStone) at an investment bank, and didn't look at a line of Java the whole time I was there. We were a wart on the architect…

+1 Scotland (Glasgow area)

I use Emacs on Windows, Mac and Linux, so I generally like the normal Emacs keybindings on everything. That way, it's equally alien/consistent on all platforms, and I just start 't…

Start with Squeak, and grab one of the pre-packaged images from http://www.seaside.st/ . These just require that you start the image and point a web browser at the host and port th…

Yes, as long as 'building' includes 'extending and maintaining an application that's been in service for 12 years'. The whole thing's a financial application written in Smalltalk, …