The article suggest that one solution is to simply not do GC until the end of the trading day. I have to admit that's a good pragmatic solution, certainly so for HF prop traders.

Not enough memory on your servers? Add more. Still not enough? Add even more. The cost would be a pittance for any prop trading company worth its salt.

If a syadmin is abusing their position of power then they need to be removed.

Aye, but how do you know when they're abusing their position of power? Tread lightly out there.

built-in support for concurrent programming for multicore computers, very friendly C programming interfaces for embedding and extending, a LLVM-based JIT compiler, a Clang-based module for embedding C/C++ codes in Dao, and a Clang-based tool for automatic binding generation from C/C++ header files

I don't know the first thing about Dao, but I'm always interested in any environment that makes embedding/extending easier. When you're working with a 15 year old code base, it's a lot cheaper to embed existing libraries into a new system than it is to re-write them. (Or, add new capabilities to a old system via extending).

Alas, there has never been a language where this capability doesn't end up being an absolute CM nightmare.

boost.function, boost.asio, boost.optional, boost.foreach, boost.shared_ptr, boost.ptr_container

start using those libraries (at a minimum), and C++ coding starts to become as easy as scripting. Of course, you'd have to learn C++ first.

See, you want the ones that write quality code and test-drive the crap out of everything so they don't have to put in 15 hour days to make the latest milestone.

Yes, exactly. So that when the inevitable mid-project changes to requirements, scope, and/or milestones happen, they'll be better able to cope with throwing away all that up-front planning and preparation -- and start working 15 hour per day to meet the new deadlines.

If you want server-side javascript, then why not just use node.js, like everyone else is doing?

Marfa is where hipsters go to be alone.

emacs

FTA sidebar:

Average and projected annual days exceeding 95 degrees:
Downtown L.A.: (1980-2000):1.4 -- (2041-2060): 4.6

In Austin, a year with only 4.6 days exceeding 95 degrees would be a miracle indeed!

In conclusion, downtown L.A., here I come!

Integrated multi-language solutions are teh suck.

I know that Python is much better than a lot of other languages for integrating C/C++ code. But in the end, if you're doing production systems, you'll end up getting bitten by some unforeseen incompatibility caused by some upgrade somewhere.

It will happen.

Ah, grasshopper, you haven't yet learned the truism that states: your customers hate you and want you to fail.

If you want to put those FLAC downloads on your iOS device, keep in mind that FLAC to ALAC is easy-peasy using ffmpeg. It even preserves the tags.

You can't possibly call yourself a programmer if your code can't recover from a hardware fault.

A quick rule of thumb:

If the company you work for is large enough to have an "IT Department", then the company you work for is too large, period. It's time to go find a job in a smaller company.

I think you missed "firewall" when I typed "NATing firewall".

Just guessing.