+1 to short and sweet incremental change lists. VLC / Firefox used to be this way until /someone/ deemed those not worthy. You can still get to the VLC changes which ware way more satisfying to read:
libfaac is a safe aac default, but aacplus works MUCH better at the the 8 - 16 kbps range, which seams to be a stated goal of this page. It turns on SBR+PS and has ffmpeg support.
If any Dropbox people are reading this, can you comment on what criteria you used to pick the audio codec?
Are there ANY hardware manufactures that know how to write software? It seems like both firmware and hardware were an afterthought to almost any piece of computer hardware I have seen.
4096 is a good goal, but there is a much more obvious benefit at 1024 since it would fit within the IPv6 1280 MTU (i.e. a single packet). I recall hearing stories that the Google Homepage had to fit within 512 bytes for IPv4's 576 MTU.
The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.
Is this even news? Pick any Wikipedia article at random that has more than one author. It isn't hard to find run on sentences and verb tense mismatches.
Does anyone seriously think that the difficulty with parallelizing code is the amount of boilerplate? The real problem is synchronizing multiple threads; being too lenient means deadlocks; being too strict means under utilization. The map() function doesn't really help with either of those.
In addition, it looks like you are unfairly picking on Java. The producer consumer model presented isn't anywhere near what a competent programmer would do. Building your consumer from within a method called Producer? Calling isinstance (or instanceof) to check if the "poison pill" is put in the queue? These are the signs of a crappy programmer, not a crappy language.
If you were to say "programming languages today are deficient in X, Myrddin fixes that!", what would X be? From the looks of it, it appears to be nothing. The syntax looks palatable and I like the lack of header files. That said, why would I be better off investing the time to learn your new language? (amongst the myriad other languages)
The "I'm doing this and I don't give a damn about you" attitude I think has at least some merit. If the lead programmer is good, its better if he/she can say no. If there is a correlation between being an asshole and being successful I haven't seen it.
Cox does something similar but bypasses the the DNS records and just slipstreams in a response. I noticed Cox would redirect javascript requests to their own HTTP server and put in their own snippets, effectively doing mass javascript injection.
The snippet ended up being some sort of alert about upcoming maintenance, but using a malicious technique for a benign purpose is the path to the dark side. Use HTTPS!
100 and 120, at least in my brief experience. Coworkers start expecting 100% output from you, which means you are going to get a lesser review for putting out 80%. That they don't let you do 20% in the first 6 months there is what makes it so hard to start it back up.
I thought the segmented stack was the key to having hundreds of thousands of userland threads. It seems pretty farfetched (though not impossible) that realloc'ing the entire thread stack when it gets too big.
When you buy premium, you get the unsampled data (and a person to call on the phone)