rick_bc's comments

On: Celebrating 150 years of MIT

[rick_bc]

Wow. 2% of Google comes from MIT! Google rocks!!!

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Bravo, Google, but it's a bit obvious :)

On: Why Kindergartners Make Better Entrepreneurs than ...

[rick_bc]

Yeah, and you have to wonder why Kindergartners make better journalists than ...

On: The Node Beginner Book

[rick_bc]

Kind of off-topic, but I don't really understand what Node.js is about until this presentation.

http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20091117/jsconf.pdf

On: Red Hat's top secret Java Killer/Successor: The Ce...

[rick_bc]

You don't have to be this rude :)

Some people use Java in spite of the language: they just like the vast libraries.

[nickik → rick_bc]

did it have all these libs 10 years ago too?

On: Erlang vs Java memory architecture

[rick_bc]

It looks like an entry about what Java can learn from Erlang.

It's not about learning Erlang.

I am pretty sure Java guys know quite well about various memory models. But early Java was kind of experimental, so backward compatibility affects what they can change now.

On: Ask HN: How did you learn distributed computing/sy...

[rick_bc]

Is hightscalablility.com really the best place to start?

I'd thought that reading some classic distributed computing books is a must.

On: Every Unicode character shown once per frame as a ...

[rick_bc]

No, it should make you feel proud -- understanding the world through 26 (or other small numbers of) alphabets.

(Speaking as an asian.)

On: Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox.

[rick_bc]

OK. Vaporware does not matter.

I think we all know that :)

On: Top 20 Programming Languages According to Wikipedi...

[rick_bc]

You may want to include page views of wiki page in other (human) languages.

[awulf → rick_bc]

Here's the top 20 list for the German Wikipedia:

1. PHP (32519)

2. Java (31965)

3. C (27128)

4. C++ (24163)

5. JavaScript (22146)

6. Visual Basic (16598)

7. Python (15463)

8. C# (13792)

9. Visual Basic for Applications (9302)

10. Perl (9204)

11. Assembler (9084)

12. Brainfuck (8254)

13. Objective-C (8202)

14. BASIC (7209)

15. Ruby (7115)

16. PostScript (6633)

17. ABAP (6192)

18. FORTRAN (5984)

19. Visual Basic Script (5887)

20. Pascal (5803)

On: Android openness withering as Google withholds Hon...

[rick_bc]

Right. But they does not claim HoneyComb is open source.

(They does not deny it outright though. That's little devilish (evilish not a word!), but I can sympathy with them)