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markokrajnc | 9 years ago | on: 64-bit ARM desktop hardware?

You are claiming that you know >>all<< operating systems and bootloaders and that >>all<< run only in 32-bit mode - with no exceptions... a big claim about your knowledge...

So you know even all non-public bootloaders and OS-es...

markokrajnc | 9 years ago | on: Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric

Windows is mostly sold as OEM on new computers. For existing/old computers they have minimal sales... so they are giving it for free here...

Gut since they will start with subscriptions very soon I wonder what is their long term plan with these Win10 installations on existing computers...

markokrajnc | 9 years ago | on: Irish Economy grew by 26.3% in 2015

And it may grow even more when some/many US subsidiaries in UK will move to Ireland after Brexit (english speaking country in EU is attracting many US companies)...

markokrajnc | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you decide for a backend language?

For companies with existing technology stacks try to reuse existing knowledge (JNode, Java, .Net, ...).

For companies "starting from scratch": analyse possibilities and make a strategic decision about your technology then try to stay with it and build up the knowledge along the way...

In 1996 I made a decision to use Java everywhere where it is possible and I sticked to that decision up until today, so I prefer Java...

markokrajnc | 9 years ago | on: A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]

These slides are great! "Standing on the shoulders of giants..." If time-to-market is important, JVM is the way to go... Manually managed memory is for low-level/OS software, GC is for the rest (apps)... with some exceptions...
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