Nerds-Central
nerds-central.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Nerds-Central is a developer blog with opinionated posts on JVM tuning, C++11, SQL, Ruby, and Flash.
What HN saysCommenters bookmark its JVM tuning guide and Java type erasure post; one notes the author's blunt, provocative style, as in his piece on Ruby.
19HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Tuning The JVM For Unusual Uses2 people · 24 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 2SQL - A Failed Experiment?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · 3 comments on HN
- 3C++11 Makes Competitors Go Rusty1 people · 64 points · first shared 2012 · 64 comments on HN
- 4G1 Garbage Collection JVM7 - Big Performance Problems Shown1 people · 48 points · first shared 2011 · 27 comments on HN
- 5Facebook Porting PHP To JVM1 people · 44 points · first shared 2012 · 63 comments on HN
- 6Facebook Moving To The JVM1 people · 34 points · first shared 2012 · 18 comments on HN
- 7C++11: Try/Catch/Finally Pattern Using RAII & Lambdas1 people · 32 points · first shared 2012 · 12 comments on HN
- 8C++11 Continuations - High Performance JNI1 people · 30 points · first shared 2012 · 7 comments on HN
- 9Databases: The Einstein Hypothesis - Distributed Transactions Cannot Exist1 people · 28 points · first shared 2011 · 29 comments on HN
- 10Java, JVM, JNI and Signal Handling Explained In Simple Terms1 people · 26 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Scala Less Popular Than COBOL: Programming In The Real World1 people · 24 points · first shared 2012 · 24 comments on HN
- 12Linux Uptake Is Getting Serious; Windows Struggles To Keep Up1 people · 14 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 13'Random Enough': Compile Random with Templates1 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Internet Explorer Canvas Tag Massively Faster Than Chrome1 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 15Facebook Moving To The JVM1 people · 11 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
NerdsCentral · 2012-04-09
Yes - I said that some time ago..
http://nerds-central.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/why-flash-is-perniciously-… and
http://nerds-central.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/steve-jobs-agrees-with-me-…
gtani · 2012-03-22
These are heavily used bookmarks
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2009/09/tuning-jvm-for-unusual-uses-…
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-definitive-set-o…
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-every-last-nanos…
http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2012/twitter_jvm_tuning.html
nerds-central · 2011-04-17
Just ask a question and I am happy to take a look. I found this an interesting area because the approach 'under the hood' seems a bit 'hacky' but it does work. Java generics are even more strange... http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2011/04/java-type-erasure-what-pile-…
hga · 2010-05-26
This author may have a ... certain style to his posting illustrations, see this item on Ruby which has been posted to HN twice: http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2010/05/knife-is-out-for-ruby.html
angersock · 2012-02-01
So, just to fan the flames a bit...
About half of his points are general gripes about software development, regardless of language(s): license infections, learning new languages, writing languages with the wrong idioms, runtime versioning issues, wah wah wah this all reads like somebody throwing up arguments just to try and distract readers.
His complaint (read:strawman) about interoperability and performance is really misleading. His 'Compatibility' section is not unfair, but all of those problems are faced by programmers dealing with system libraries anyways. Tell me more about the C++ bindings to C libraries and how they are never used in production.
His complaint about 'Performance' is similar FUD. Jesus, dude--if you agree on a calling convention, I can probably get my Brainfuck program to compile and interop with your C library. The computer really doesn't give two shits what language caused the stack pointer to move--it doesn't matter. This isn't a valid complaint.
His lambda is dumb. He didn't do anything there that couldn't have been done with a function pointer, C-style. If he was trying to show why C++11 lambdas are cool, he failed.
(and his code looked like garbage, as others here have mentioned... elegant my ass. No comments, ugly use of operators, namespacing--beautiful C++ this ain't.)
EDIT: Found this, same author I think ( http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2012/01/sql-failed-experiment.html ). SQL is a distraction--quick, somebody warn Oracle that…