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That just might be the most dedicated answer I've ever seen on Stack Overflow.
by techopoly 8y ago
That just might be the most dedicated answer I've ever seen on Stack Overflow.
- azhenley 8y agoIt is a good answer, but my favorite by far is an answer about branch prediction to explain why processing a sorted array is faster than unsorted: https://stackoverflow.com/q/11227809/938695 https://stackoverflow.com/q/11227809/938695
- dopamean 8y agoWow that was a great read.
- fma 8y agoI find it interesting that there are developers out there that know to look at these nuances when respond to Stack Overflow questions. I'm been developing professionally for 10 years and probably went over branch prediction in my computer architecture class in college (I'm guessing I did, if I didn't then I never encountered it at all!). The person who answered the multiple question dove into byte code...but also answered questions on Angular. I am unworthy...and this is what impostor syndrome looks like.
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- Illniyar 8y agoThat person works in financial services, which I'm guessing is basically some form of automated trading. It is an industry where every cycle counts (so much so, that often times light speed latency between two edges is something you need to consider when placing servers). He probably has actual experience with branch prediction. He probably dabbled or had experience with angular in other jobs (he worked at google apparently, so maybe there). He'll most likely be stumped if you provide a graphic problem that a graphic designer with a few years of experience would solve in an instant, or an ML problem for a data scientist with similar experience. That doesn't mean he isn't extremely smart. He most likely is (it takes a lot of brain to do these things), but the fact that you can't tell branch prediction problems even though you had some computer architecture class in the past is irrelevant.
- saagarjha 8y agoThe author of that answer wrote y-cruncher, which has been used to set world records in the number of digits of pi calculated. So I'm not surprised at all to see that they how know branch prediction works.
- aristophenes 8y ago> they how know branch prediction works. Can’t tell if clever joke, or typo
- saagarjha 8y agoTypo, but I'll leave it up to brighten someone else's day.
- icebraining 8y agoI don't see anything regarding Angular, they're obviously very knowledgeable, but it's pretty much focused on low-level: https://stackoverflow.com/users/922184/mysticial?tab=tags&sort=votes https://stackoverflow.com/users/922184/mysticial?tab=tags&so...
- fma 8y agoI think these are his responses https://stackoverflow.com/users/485343/rustyx https://stackoverflow.com/users/485343/rustyx He answered a question on ticking clock in Angular.
- icebraining 8y agoOh, my mistake, I thought we were talking about the question linked by azhenley above.
- garmaine 8y agoWould be awesome if that answer was updated to explain Spectre (it’s 85% of the way there).
- foobaw 8y agotruly full-stack!
- falcor84 8y agoIt really was, but as others mentioned, there's a lot of really good stuff on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange in general. This is my favorite: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
- pmarreck 8y agoOh my god. https://copy.sh/life/?pattern=TetrisOTCAMP.mc https://copy.sh/life/?pattern=TetrisOTCAMP.mc OH MY GOD! My eyes are watering and I can’t stop deeply chuckling at the sheer collaborative esoteric audacity
- Veedrac 8y agoThen you'll love https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37361145/deoptimizing-a-program-for-the-pipeline-in-intel-sandybridge-family-cpus/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37361145/deoptimizing-a-...
- pmarreck 8y agoTakeaway phrases from this I love: “Pessimization” “Diabolical incompetence”