back
user profile
kimi
2,549karma·798submissions·November 19, 2014
recent activity (798 total)
comment
Suggestion: throw the remaining 10% away as well and go for ClojureScript. You are ready.
comment
see above
comment
The Clojure app was AOT compiled (Clojure->bytecode) not the JVM's AOT
comment
see above
comment
Changes with Quickstart and Sharedclasses; # time for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./jdk-9+181/bin/java -client -Xquickstart -jar l2i-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar; done real 0m18.571s
user 0m3…
comment
I tried some quick tests using a fully AOT, short-running thing we run in house. Here the cost is the set-up of JVM and loading of Clojure stuff (CentOS 7 Vagrant VM on my Mac). J9: time ./jdk-…
comment
Maybe because writing an Access database still requires a programmer, and you can get better value by hiring a PHP programmer to write two pages and three tables.
comment
Go is more "mainstream" (I'd say it's totally mainstream by now) while Clojure is still "niche" - and being a Lisp, I doubt it will ever be non-niche.
comment
I find it always a PITA to set up WebRTC in Asterisk. Not sure if it is just me.
comment
Not an expert, but I thought that nearly all of high-frequency trading (and finance in general) was Java. They spend handsomely on huge heaps and controlled-allocation data structures.
comment
While you're here, I'd like to say thanks for Aleph and Manifold - they have been very reliable and powerful workhorses.
comment
Pangea used to run WorldGroup BBS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS - thence the "GUI"; but it was also available as a character-based BBS over ISDN.…
comment
They should have put a macroassembler in front - you upload the LDAs and STAs and get the execution back :)
Rodnay Zacks would be proud!
comment
The problem is not that permissions are pretty good. The problem is that you have to give many apps way too many permissions to work. Let's make an example; I use the FitBit tracker and quite lik…
comment
It may be just me, but every time I download an app I have a feeling that I'm signing in into something that will do whatever it wants on my phone - geolocation, read address book, access the int…
comment
More ADA than Clojure? ha ha ha