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How far have we come?

Things like these makes me wonder, with all the advances in computer science how far have we really come?

  • 40 years after the invention of relational databases we are still manually defining indexes
  • 40 years after the invention of Unix, the scheduler in Android (= Linux) still does a terrible job at scheduling the tasks that really depend on it (games and audio)
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jvm Programming

Clojure

This is perhaps one of the most interesting talks I have heard in a long time. The talk is about a modern implementation of lisp for the jvm which is designed for concurrency.