antrix

> Admittedly, I wasn't thinking about browser based JITs when I said that :)

Don't HotSpot and JRockit also do background (de)compilation & swapping of generated code?

When I refreshed my resume [1] last year, I went with Bootstrap first. But I found it really difficult to modify the defaults that Bootstrap provided. The deal-breaker for me was that the responsive grid worked only when the container width was set to the default value. Changing the default width broke the responsive grid. In the end, I tried out Foundation and it was a breeze to customize it to my needs.

My take is that Bootstrap provides a lot of stuff out of the box (including a rich third-party ecosystem) but Foundation is better suited as a customizable, well, foundation for your site.

[1] http://antrix.net/resume/

But they wouldn't be able to call it FirefoxOS. The source may be open but the brand & trademark certainly aren't.

I'd love to see a writeup with some code samples. Android view animation is something I've never really got the hang off.

I thought of it as a glitch too.. till I made enough progress in the game to find that it was a progress bar. Would be better if it started from the right of the 'up' button and not from the very edge of the screen.

> WinRT lets MS say to Intel that Intel has to care about the tablet market and low-power processors

I don't think Intel needs MS to say that. The lost money on the table in the smartphone-tablet ecosystem is enough incentive!

Precisely my thoughts. The way things are looking, by the time MS gets sizable Windows RT device sales, Intel would be beating ARM on performance/efficiency.

> * Written in Python

Isn't punch a nodejs app?

Agreed. After their UK & France editions, I am hoping they'll launch an Asian edition too.

The trouble with Twitter is that you can't go back and find tweets from the past to figure out, say, what did I do in the 2nd week of November last year or when did I send that notice out.

> "Is the test failing because the test is out of date? Or is our program causing a bug?"

IMO, when you change code (extensively), you'd still have to invariably answer those questions. But in the absence of tests, it becomes much harder to find the answers.

> Tinfoil for Facebook

And Tinfoil is better integrated with the Android system than the official Facebook app. Click a Facebook link in an app or browser - you'll get Tinfoil as an option to view the link but not the official app.

(author here) Two points, (a) I was describing general lazy initialization, not just Singletons and (b)I believe the Enum approach is not lazy.

> but in reality not everyone is happy to use Google of various reasons.

I don't think he is saying 'just use Google'. He is saying that Google's wide-spread adoption of OAuth 2.0 is existence proof that the technology itself works.

> plenty of people and organizations have to implement OAuth 2.0 server-side and wade through messy specification where half of it may be irrelevant

Hence this bit: "It’s done. Stick a fork in it. Ship the RFCs." It is entirely possible that the 'working' bits of the spec will be distilled out as RFCs which should make implementation easier.

You should read the full article.. the hiring writers bit is just a parody.

One corporation is claiming losses from another corporation for services not rendered as expected. What's the outrage for?

It is being argued that these losses aren't just vanilla trading losses. They arose due to technical glitches at NASDAQ which led to quotes being unavailable, delayed processing order cancel requests, missing acks, etc.

Essentially, traders couldn't act in time to react to the market due to NASDAQ's troubles.

Edit: I should also add that Citi, Citadel, etc. were acting as market makers - they don't have the option of holding the stock for recovery as others in this thread suggest.

> Can you write/submit an end-user programming app like Scratch?

Yes, you can. e.g AIDE : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

Full quote: "github is a total ghetto of crap commit messages and unreadable and unusable pull requests"

Conveniently left out the part most salient to Linus' argument? Linus repeatedly stresses that he thinks Github is great as a hosting service. It is the pull/commit functionality which he finds lacking.

> (running newer code in older vms).

That's pretty much how Java works too. In general, you can't take code compiled with a newer version and run it on an older VM. You will get class version mismatch errors.. they update the class version every time there's an incompatible change, such as when 'enum' became a keyword.

The compatibility that Sun, err.. Oracle, strives for is to be able to mix code compiled with old & new versions without issues.

> Ugh. Google, you have so many cool ideas and so little business acumen.

Yeah, they became a 200 billion dollar company without business acumen.

Sounds like`virtualenv` for Go. But shouldn't the need for this go away over time as Go 1.0 use becomes widespread?

I personally know one company which lost a court case based on that defense. Not in US/under DMCA, though.

Do you have plans to attempt an ICS build for the Nexus One?

I would actually like the opposite feature from Google: let me update my location in your DB! The last time I moved house, it was months before before my phone started locating me correctly when at home. Of course, the hard problem in doing this is to figure out ways to avoid contamination of the DB.

Professional Photoshop users already have existing hardware. This is trying to fill the gap that none (afaik) of the existing hardware offerings support Linux.

Also, if you really care, they say they'll ship a Linux Live CD with the device. So you boot your Windows machine with the live CD, take the readings with the device, save the color profile to a file on USB, reboot to Windows & import the profile. The generated profile itself is cross-platform.

At least that's what they say :)

I upgraded to 11.10 today and guess what, suspend works! I had to add `i8042.reset` to grub config but finally, working suspend!

I do have the v1.28 BIOS. And I think I did try that and all the other options I possibly could when I first got this laptop. I've just settled for the loud fan. Anyway, I'm going to upgrade to the new release and see what that brings!

I have the 3810T too and I can report similar numbers. But still, I get more life when I boot into Windows. Moreover, suspend & hibernate just don't work & the laptop fan always stays on.

It could be a buggy BIOS for all I know but we could still do better. Thus, an OEM option where _everything works_ would definitely be nice.

I guess the issue is that making thread-safe GUIs is incredibly hard. So all GUI frameworks require you to update the GUI state only in the 'GUI thread'. Which means we use hacks like 'runOnMainThread', etc. to update the GUI.

A saner way is to implement an event bus and send update events to it letting the main thread update itself from the bus. Some frameworks do use this model but really, it would be much nicer if the language itself could do this.