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Given this is from 2004 I'm not surprised.
Instead of "cloud storage" which might incur ongoing charges, apps can very well hook onto my GDrive/OneDrive to persist data. Also, games have done this "free updates to this app I paid" for years now.
Does someone else remember that blog? If yes, please share the link!
EDIT: After looking at his resume, I'm fairly confident his writing style is heavily inspired by Wodehouse (he mentions about Jeeves and Wooster!).
[1] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=209...
Surely you jest? No mention of Congress who have literally destroyed our country by their rampant corruption and being in power for so long that it is proving to be a gargantuan task to get back on our feet?
Other factors which contribute to holding back the country are: illiteracy, population explosion, blind faith, diversity used against the masses to incite hate and so on.
But I dread the feeling of writing repetitive error handling code and copy-pasta to get a simple generic functionality to work across data types. Maybe I should just consider it a better C and move on...
But not all JITs are equal; that's like putting Brainfuck in the mix because it has a JIT. It is worth noting that JVM JIT has years of research behind it and being statically typed only adds to he benefits.
> So, yes, it might be slower than the JVM, but not that slower for most practical purposes.
Sure, my point is that the "not that slower" varies on lot depending on the kind of computation would run and having a notion that these dynamic languages are fast enough just perpetuates the misunderstanding that there exists free lunch...