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Nokia's then CEO's Elop's "burning platform" memo leak in 2011 seemed to hurt Nokia a lot by painting their existing and upcoming phones as inferior. > I have learned that we are s…

Can you elaborate? Do you mean like the Promise API with the "spesialisti APIs"?

JDK21 has structured concurrency. It works with virtual threads so the main task will be moved aside (from the OS thread) until the sub tasks finnish. https://www.infoq.com/news/20…

Before virtual threads, Java server would reserve a full OS thread while that code is being processed. OS threads use lots of memory and there might a limited number available. Wit…

I disagree, the success story has details that reveal lots on what's going on. > The team uses software to prototype their instruments before implementing hardware designs. With th…

Only time when I noticed my fans revving up was when I went to a site that tried to mine some bitcoins. Closing the tab reduced the cpu usage to normal levels.

Keeping the safety belt on protects other passengers too. A person weighing 80kg has surprisingly high amount of kinetic energy when the plane trashes around. Kinetic energy is als…

I don't know about Sweden, but in Finland the number of firebomb/grenade attacks increased a lot in the past few years. All of them due Finnish born right wing zealots trying to bu…

Actually with film it wasn't that straightforward: "In the early days of color film, the color balance of the film’s processing chemicals were made with the primary consumer market…

I think it's about balancing various things. Having less code is good unless there's a hidden catch you need to be aware of or it takes a few weeks to unravel what the code does. I…

It's about the performance of selecting which function to call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch

Chrome displays if the browser is 64bit in its about box, but for Firefox that information is a bit harder to find out. It's in about:buildconfig

We used Docker for the Hello World Open coding competition. We provided CI for the 2500 teams and also ran the competition using Docker (both on top of AWS EC2 instances). I think …

Hi! Unfortunately there's quite a bit of context behind those statistics that doesn't fit in to the title nicely. I suspect that mentioning just HWO or Hello World Open or real tim…

Actually back in 2012 Java wasn't that popular. Here's the language stats for the 200 teams 1.5 years ago: Ruby 28.4% Python 27.5% Clojure 10.1% Java 9.2% CoffeeScript 8.3% Haskell…

I would image the complexity being really high because the game is about racing against other AIs. What do you think? And I'm afraid local versions are out because: 1. players woul…

Unfortunately due budget constraints we can't allow unlimited access to test game servers. Do you have an estimate on how many rounds would you need to evolve the algorithm enough?…

Hi Unfortunately due budget constraints we can't allow unlimited access to test game servers. Do you have an estimate on how many rounds would you need to evolve the algorithm enou…

Yes, we'll provide test game servers that you can use.

Hi! Very good question :) The message protocol is synchronized because of latency. When the developers test their bots against the game servers, the server allows long response tim…

We're trying to keep the competition both fun and challenging so the simulation is kept fairly simple. More details will be revealed when competition starts.

During the competition the server code is not released. There are going to be game servers where developers can connect and test their bots. We haven't discussed about what happens…

There's nothing that makes internet somehow undo-hostile. But your observation about relational databases not having the support for undo is in the right track. Actually it can be …