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therockhead

578 karma · joined January 5, 2009

Father, Husband, Coder. From Galway, Ireland.
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therockhead··on Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
Do you mean the overall platform (OTP etc) ? While different, the Erlang language is small and much simpler than most programming languages IMHO.
therockhead··on WhatsApp Web
Is WebRTC not browser to browser? Think websockets would be better suited for this problem.
therockhead··on MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies
This version is Mac App Store compatible.
therockhead··on How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Applications Across Multiple Platforms
You can not share Java on all platforms (such as iOS). Unfortunately if you want to share code on Windows/OSX/Android/iOS C/C++ are you only options.
therockhead··on Phoenix – Elixir Web Framework
Regarding documention, did you see the following guides https://github.com/lancehalvorsen/phoenix-guides ?
therockhead··on OS X Yosemite
They still have serious issues to fix. For example try this sample app from Apple https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/LayerBack.... 10.10 uses 4 times the CPU compared to 10.9.
therockhead··on Building Clojure services at scale
What type of issues are you having with Erlang?
therockhead··on Why Racket? Why Lisp?
For me it is the prefix notation and still find nested expressions difficult to read.
therockhead··on MacBook Air Stickers
Wow .. love it.
therockhead··on Motorola's Moto G bites into UK budget smartphone market
It does not help that most US tech sites give the carry subsided prices instead of the true retail cost. For example a review of the iPhone will have a price of $200 instead of $700.
therockhead··on Mac apps are harder than iOS apps
Agree 100%.
therockhead··on The iPhone 5s Review
For graphically intensive 3D games it may have suffered compared to the iPad2 but it is still a great piece of hardware and worthy update from the iPad2.
therockhead··on Show HN: Lekh Diagram for Android – A sketch recognition diagramming app
This is pretty neat.Is there a paid app available, i find the ads to distracting?
therockhead··on Announcing Firepad — Our Open Source Collaborative Text Editor
Do you know of any JS OT framework that supports peer to peer?
therockhead··on Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure
First of April is such a pain.
therockhead··on QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia
If you already know C++ what would be a good book to learn QT?
therockhead··on Why C++ Is Not "Back"
Binary incompatibility is one of the my biggest issues with C++. Having to build every library (and its dependencies ) from source is such a pain.
therockhead··on Create 2D games in Lua and LÖVE.
What was wrong with them?
therockhead··on Why Python is Important for You
"I find the focus on dynamic typing a bit fascinating: you don't see people focus so much on it on a discussion about LISP. "

Interesting point.Thinking back on the Clojure discussions here over the last two years i don't recall many issues with readability/maintainability due to the lack of a static types system.

therockhead··on Project to compare Groovy, Clojure, Javascript, JRuby and Jython
Was there a conclusion from the article?
therockhead··on The switch: Python to Node.js
Would you mind explaining "the Erlang guys have fired round after round into their own feet"?
therockhead··on Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy
Hmm ... is this still an issue with dual core Android phones ? I have two Android phones, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Nexus and both are as smooth as butter. Both feel faster than my first gen Ipad.
therockhead··on Samsung Galaxy S II – Over 3 million units sold in 55 days
I have a GS2 for the three weeks now and havent seen this issue.In fact, I think the battery life is a lot better then my last phone which was a IPhone 3GS. Is this a common bug?
therockhead··on Systems Programming with Racket
Has any one created any Windows GUI's using Racket and if so, what was the experience like? I,ve been learning Clojure and having a lot of fun but not a big fan of Swing, so hoping Racket might be a better fit.
therockhead··on Play Framework (full stack Java framework with Scala) v1.2 released
It was terrible, now its just about ok, so its moving in the right direction. Manning Lift in Action book really helps though.
therockhead··on Play Framework (full stack Java framework with Scala) v1.2 released
What issues did you have with Grails?
therockhead··on Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0
Nokia made a lot of mistakes in the past but I think the biggest one was not buying Palm/WebOS.They could have had a great OS and have total control of there future.
therockhead··on It's a polyglot world after all - Lift adding support for JRuby
Is Ruby making inroads in the corporate market?
therockhead··on Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
Has any one tried Gaelyk on GAE?
therockhead··on How Scala Compiles to Java
Clojure is using a lot more memory, any idea why that is?
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