Nerds-Central is a developer blog with opinionated posts on JVM tuning, C++11, SQL, Ruby, and Flash.
Commenters bookmark its JVM tuning guide and Java type erasure post; one notes the author's blunt, provocative style, as in his piece on Ruby.
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…
These are heavily used bookmarks
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2009/09/tuning-jvm-for-unusual-uses-have-some.html
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-definitive-set-of-hotspot.html
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-every-last-nanosecond.html
http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2012/twitter_jvm_tuning.html
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-of-bollocks.html
Yes - I said that some time ago..
http://nerds-central.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/why-flash-is-perniciously-evil-and.html and
http://nerds-central.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/steve-jobs-agrees-with-me-yes-flash.html
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