MrZipf

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by MrZipf 12y ago
As an older self-taught engineer who went through interviews last year this is great advice. Other books I found particularly useful were: Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou and Vazirani: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-
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by MrZipf 12y ago
You'd like to think there are places in the world that this would make a lot of sense - your phone and tablet could get updates that your PC woke up to download overnight, and all your devices avoid bottlenecking on a slow edge network
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by MrZipf 12y ago
In a big company, this will have had nothing to do with engineers as they are not employed to do business deals. A business specialist will have made a deal with Superfish in the name of the company. In all likelihood they won't have
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by MrZipf 12y ago
This looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco does. The talk w
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by MrZipf 12y ago
Intel's SGX is just a hardware generation away. This allows for encrypted code to run inside hardware protected regions called enclaves - the memory regions are encrypted and decrypted as they are pulled into the core. In a curious des
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by MrZipf 12y ago
Like it or loathe it, MSFT has always been a learning corporation. Teams are continually exploring different approaches to software development and trying to figure out what works best for their team and org. To their credit, they also publ
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by MrZipf 13y ago
Haskell has significant contributions by folks at Microsoft and is a beautiful functional language with state of the art concurrency, decent GC, and a hardcore fan base. And here's some notes on bridging between Haskell and Unity http