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by DannyB2 9y ago
Also if memory is fairly limited, then you don't get that much of a pause time from even a fairly simplistic GC implementation. I would also point out that modern micro controllers run faster than the old systems mentioned in TFA. (eg,
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Maybe C simply has become a modern replacement for assembly language? (before LLVM) C is/was a target for some other compilers to emit simply because, prior to LLVM, it was a sort of universal assembly language with a rich set of impl
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by DannyB2 9y ago
The missing piece? It is a new project, it enables your server to use all other front end and back end technologies at the same time! That is what makes it so fantastic! You get all front end JavaScript frameworks, and all back end server
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Going through a "Linux phase"? I started my "Linux phase" in 1999 and have never finished going through that phase.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Code is data. In Java, I could use a bytecode manipulation library to read in a class file, manipulate it by using the library's API to add, modify, delete members of the class. Then write the class back out as a file. Code becomes da
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> Refactoring lisp gets harder the more complex the program gets. I have found that to be true in dynamically or duck typed languages. I have found it to be not true in strongly typed languages with good tooling. Example: refactoring la
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by DannyB2 9y ago
If you don't get updated textbooks, how do you deal with all the changes to the cosine function or the pythagorean theorem? /s
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by DannyB2 9y ago
You say you're a big fan of Netty. It's developers probably had to work with bytes in Java.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Base64 Video / audio codecs. Cryptographic algorithms. (encrypt / decrypt, hash functions) Cryptographic random number generators. Ordinary random number generators. PKI (key generation, validation) Packing / unpacking binar
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Don't forget to patent it! (1. come up with brand name. 2. patent the product. 3. develop the product.)
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by DannyB2 9y ago
When I saw the first successful booster landing I realized I was seeing history. When I saw the first successful booster landing on a drone ship I realized I was again watching history.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
I am tired of always failing my new years resolutions. So this year, 2018, I made only one new year's resolution: I will not make any new years resolutions for 2018. Oh, wait. I think I just made a self-breaking new years resolutions.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
If the US mandates insecure products or backdoored encryption, it will put the US at a competitive disadvantage. The other 96% of the world's population will know that if they want a secure product don't buy from the US.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Can't the technique itself be used to better train the speech recognition systems? Using the first example where it sounds like "without the dataset the article is useless" but the speech recognition thinks it hears "oka
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Once you understand the basics of Docker, which is containers, then look at Kubernetes. One place you might start is with spinning up a single VM with RancherOS.
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Will robot ships be more attractive to pirates? Or can the ships autonomously use lethal force to repel pirates? What about if they encounter another ship in distress? Or people in the water in distress? Who then turn out to be a pirate ru
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Ah, but once upon a time, Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, CPU meant a large metal enclosure with circuit boards, main memory, power supplies and cooling. Oh, and blinking lights. Don't forget the blinking lights like REAL comput
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by DannyB2 9y ago
The key insight is that the drone should store the video to local storage for later (1) recovery or (2) buffered encrypted transmission to the mother ship which would eliminate the leakage of clues about what subject is being spied upon.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
BYTE magazine, April 1980, page 115. NEW HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS BUS: Xerox Corporation recently made a public announcement of a new concept of processor-to-processor communications intended for an office environment. This novel concept
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Curing Alzheimer's or any other condition is the wrong approach. It is way more profitable to treat the condition and turn it into something that is merely manageable rather than making your revenue stream disappear entirely. This is
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Maybe they forgot that the research could result in a profitable therapy?
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by DannyB2 9y ago
There is this thing called "return oriented programming". You write your program as a series of addresses that are smashed onto the stack through some other type of vulnerability. When the current function returns, it returns to
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by DannyB2 9y ago
> The people who have left were responsible for collecting > and analyzing the intelligence that goes into the > president’s daily briefing. I seem to recall that the president's daily briefing is now a single page with pictur
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by DannyB2 9y ago
I don't have a problem with electronic voting if: The electronic machine has a nice UI. Clear. Offered in multiple languages. Maybe even show pictures of the candidates. Touch screen. It's all great. It MUST produce a paper b
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Your words about paper ballots being transparent, accountable, etc are exactly how paper ballots have NOT worked for hundreds of years. At least not "worked" the way some people wish they would "work". Hence electronic
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by DannyB2 9y ago
I wonder how they see taxes as thrown away? Yes, government is inefficient. And corrupt. But you do need roads. And bridges. And law enforcement. And even military protection, even if it seems far away and remote from your farm.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Problem: when a certain alarm condition occurs, an LED on the control panel needs to blink. Dimwit #1: Ah, use a 555 timer. Dimwit #2: Use an Arduino with the Blink sketch. Senior Software Developer: I'll use a Linux board with a bli
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by DannyB2 9y ago
You said it way better than I did. Also doing cross-compilation on different platforms should produce identical binaries, are at least identical behaving binaries.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
There is something to be said for having LOTS and LOTS of non optimizing C compilers written in many languages. Even languages like, say, Python. And plenty of C compilers written in C. A virtue of being non-optimizing is that they are e
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by DannyB2 9y ago
If it was a secret driving sauce, like the Coke formula, maybe the owner of that secret isn't interested in licensing it for royalties.

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