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josephwilk

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About josephwilk

Programmer working with code, creativity and computation. Performs as @repl_electric

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    Good point, I'll update it to be more conservative for other people trying this out.

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    Comment #9144404

    Thats really helpful, thanks! Will give it a try.

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    Comment #9131424

    Oh, good point on the reflection optimisation. That will definitely be useful for squeezing a bit more performance out of the graphics. Will be interesting to profile and see where…

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    Spigot complains if you launch with the default MaxPermSize. The developers there could make better suggestions as to why thats the case. Spigot warning: ``` Warning, your max perm…

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    Thanks for the note, I've ensured Ghostery only blocks the SoundCloud widget and not the entire post now.

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    Comment #6383542

    Yes, I shed a tear as I had to remove all the futures. Disappointment I could not get multiple thread pools and scheduling with Clojure's concurrency primitives.

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    Thanks for those replies. I've updated that section to better reflect Scala just being a library dependency. I'm looking forward to playing with Finagles Java API as at some point …

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    Comment #6383072

    That looks very interesting, will have to play!

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    How Sets are implemented in Elixir

    Elixir is a programming language implemented on top of the Erlang VM. Its Set implementation however is often faster than Erlangs own sets. This explains how.

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    A developers guide to creating presentations

    So your talk got selected. Great! Oh Crap! Now hits the panic, you have to actually create a presentation. Every presenter wants to give the best possible presentation they can tha…

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    The aesthetics of density

    Density gets poo-pooed on a lot as being unreadable. Languages like Clojure love density. Is Density in programming languages a good thing?

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