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Nah, your phishing attempt failed, you didn't wholly fill my screen, and I could see through your smileys! 
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Since 2005, a very small group of people with limited resources at Nokia developed a Linux based Maemo operating system and devices based on it. The team was known as OSSO (Open Source Software Operations) and according to one team member who worked there from the beginning, the goal was to produce a product that would change the world. Farewell, MeeGo. We hardly new you.
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A seeming leak of iOS/Android plans from a Microsoft office in the Czech Republic seems like confirmation. But it’s really just confusion, and not just because Steve Ballmer called it 'not accurate'. [ITworld]
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Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. But some revolutionary languages had a slant that differentiated them from their more general-purpose brethren. LISP was for list processing. SNOBOL was for string manipulation. SIMSCRIPT was for simulation. And APL was for mathematics, with an emphasis on array processing. Plus a handy APL primer. Get coding!
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An amazing language at the time. I remember first learning about APL. At the time I was using FORTRAN. It took a long time for FORTRAN to finally get matrix capability even though it was intended for Scientific Programming. Interestingly enough it handled complex numbers, but did not evolve further in its ability to support scientific calculations. Later versions of FORTRAN added the structual style we pretty much use today, and then much improved IO. Too bad...
It was said that a programmer could create a line of code in APL that would take another programmer days to decypher. Also was helpful to have a special keyboard to work with APL due to all the special characters.
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APL was referred to as a "write-only" language, meaning you could write a program but could not read and understand it!
However, I do remember one commercial application (ERP-like, LOB) written in APL and offered on a time-sharing service. Unfortunately, I cannot recall its name.
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Had not heard that, but sounds appropriate.
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While the original Ruby script took maybe 2 hours to write, my straight port to C++ took more than 10! Most of this time was spent navigating the API of libjpeg, fumbling with pointers and buffer arithmetic, and hunting down type casting errors that subtly caused inaccurate results. However, check out the speed gains... That’s a speed up of more than 50x. And ten years worth of gray hair.
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To be fair, the guy is a Ruby programmer. It would probably take me a similar amount of pain to re-write a piece of C++ code in Ruby.
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libjpeg is a c library, not c++. The title should have been "Rewriting in C for Fun, Speed and Masochism"
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But he said he was writing in C++. Using a C library from C++ still counts as "rewriting in C++" in my world, but perhaps our views differ.
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Just read the article:
"When given the right amount of abstraction - in this case, a fast C++ library - writing the code to be adequately fast was trivial. Using old-school C-style library integration, on the other hand, ended with me wasting hours making little to no progress. "
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So? That still doesn't mean he was rewriting anything in C.
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Really? Do you understand english?
Using old-school *C-style* library integration, on the other hand, ended with me wasting hours
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Do you?
ed welch wrote: <layer>*C-style* library integration
Means exactly that. It does not necessarily imply he rewrote the whole thing in C. In fact he probably didn't, if that's what he had done he would have said "I also tried to rewrite it in C, but that turned out to be a waste of time". Or something like that. It is far more likely he actually meant what he wrote, and he used C-style library integration into C++, which is a perfectly valid thing to do.
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For a developer like me, font rendering is very important since, I always work with code, read stuff and do many things with letters most of the time. Ubuntu renders font really good and it’s ubuntu font is really cool. After installing Windows fonts, It looks really cool on the web too. For me Mac’s font rendering looks so weired mostly on the Web. I copied windows fonts to the fonts folder as I did in Ubuntu but still no luck. The A B C that I see.
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The problems with JavaScript come from premature standardization. The language’s author Brendan Eich said: "I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened." For a programming language designed in 10 days, he did an amazing job. Maybe he did too good a job: his first draft was good enough to use, and so he never got a chance to fix the language’s flaws. The opposite of JavaScript may be Perl 6. In the works for 12 years and still loved even less than JavaScript.
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Did you know that you can run ReSharper Code Inspections on the server using TeamCity? In fact, we added support for this functionality in TeamCity just over a year ago but it seems that the feature is not widely known, specially by ReSharper users. The setup itself is extremely simple, and we’re going to walk through it, and additionally add some more goodies in the mix. You can check for code duplication, too.
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For those of us who have been Windows Phone fans for a long time, we know what it’s like to watch a major release go awry. Well, quite frankly, it’s pretty much all we’ve seen. We’ve grown used to a total lack of noise from its inception and even simple mistakes like launching the flagship Lumia 900 on Easter. Just so many missed opportunities but with the release of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft is doubling down on the strategy of bungling major rollouts. Let’s just look at where things are in the US market. What do you think of Windows Phone 8?
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In preparation for taking on Intel in servers and storage ARM has developed a new networking technology for its chips that lets them reach higher core counts than before while being able to effectively pass information across the chip. Up next: datacenter on a chip.
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Linear algebra gives you mini-spreadsheets for your math equations. We can take a table of data (a matrix) and create updated tables from the original. It’s the power of a spreadsheet written as an equation. Here’s the linear algebra introduction I wish I had, with a real-world stock market example. Matrixes, determinants, eigen something something...
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Microsoft's Surface tablets are more than just an experiment. They're the first sign of a radical pivot for Microsoft, away from software licensing and toward one big ecosystem of hardware and services. In an annual letter to shareholders, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted at major changes for the company, saying that there is a “fundamental shift underway in our business and the areas of technology that we believe will drive the greatest opportunity in the future.” Seems like they've been making great mice, keyboards and consoles for years.
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A back door installed in networking hardware could be very difficult to detect, says Schneider. "If you siphon off lots [of data], then someone who was looking would notice," he says. But "if it's a small scale, it would be pretty hard to tell." That's because part of the Internet is designed to be fault-tolerant and allow the occasional piece of data to go missing. "It would be hard to distinguish between drops and retries and something nefarious..." Is your router spying on you?
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If you have an IT + math + business background, there's a Big Data job for you [ITworld]
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Big Data is currently in an identity crisis, just like The Cloud a few years back. People understand the gist of Big Data (unlike The Cloud where the name doesn't even tell you what the heck it is), but there isn't really a pervasive well-rounded definition of it yet.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chineese Proverb]
Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
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