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Isn’t that kind of implementation blatantly illegal, though?

Would've making regular assignment an expression broken too much existing code?

There is some work underway. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint/blob/master/README.m...

I have no idea why the C++ designers chose those particular names, but at least Scala uses the same Promise/Future dichotomy, where you resolve (or reject) a Promise into a Future.…

There's also an updated version of the episode that they aired this year. http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/

I have no experience with SQS, but there is definitely space for a simpler queue implementation (or even a standard) than AMQP. I think it's needlessly complex for many problem dom…

Here's one example. Web browsers often use bloom filters or similar data structures to check for malicious URLs. They first check the URL against the local bloom filter, and if a m…

That's Norway. The other Nordic countries weren't lucky enough to have significant numbers of oil.

Not the American pronounciation!

The y is pronounced like the ü in über.

> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running…

CSGO does as well.

Going above 32G doesn't kill performance per se, it just means that there is not point in using heap sizes between 32G and 48G due to the larger pointers. If you go above that, it'…

It's a nice tool, I use it daily. Right now my only gripe is that it doesn't format (PostgreSQL) JSON columns in any way, so if you're storing a lot of JSON data, it can be difficu…

During the hottest days of the summer (it very rarely goes above 28C or so - average maximum temperature is around 22C during the hottest summer months in southern Finland), yes, b…

Music isn't obviously not the focus of any Twitch stream, but nevertheless, people are breaking copyright laws by playing copyrighted music on their streams. And if Twitch becomes …

All major Ruby implementations use OS threads, but the GIL still limits parallelism in MRI.

Looks like it's clear now. Colin Watson voted for Upstart[1], so systemd wins. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00332.html

> Without concurrent request dispatch, jruby's hypothetical greater thread parallelism is unlikely to effect requests-per-second benchmarks. Also, the benchmarking test would have …

I'd wager that it's the TB/Undertow code running most of the time on that benchmark. On real-world benchmarks the difference is going to be a lot smaller. Not saying that you shoul…

Looks like it's running with the threadsafe mode off. That would probably give JRuby an edge, as it's able to take advantage of greater thread parallelism than MRI. No idea if he's…

Ah, that's too bad. It would be nice if setting user-scalable=no was all you had to do to disable the delay. And anyway, despite using an iPhone for god knows how many years, I did…

> For what it's worth, this delay was already removed for sites that had user-scalable=no set. Most mobile "apps" used this. Is this true for mobile Safari as well?

Each String in Ruby has their own encoding. But by default, it is UTF-8 these days.