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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Also if you didn’t read the article, at least forHP: it was HP’s mistake and fully acknowledged by the company. Apple’s anti-malware system was actually just working exactly as designed.
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
pure gold
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Unfortunately, for us, Java “out of memory” errors are routine, and for even moderately-sized monorepos the RAM requirements can get insane.
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
No idea, I have no affiliation with them at all. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say “evolutionary history”, because that’s almost always the case, in my experience.
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Nordic’s Middleware is available under a standard BSD 3-clause license. https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Development-To... Their middleware and DRIVER library is first rate, also BSD: https://gi
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
But you have to be careful about that word "independent". There's a reason that things like 3D protein structure estimation, for example, are still very difficult problems, because none of the coordinates are even approximate
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Wow, what a great write up – thank you, Jay! I have seen this exact confusion with many friends and colleagues in the past who don’t understand just how different a micro controller is from an application processor, and what a difference it
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
> The Church. The lambda calculus. The gay agenda. I just about lost it with that one. Started laughing so hard I woke up my wife... > ... balancing a binary tree was an interview question which I personally bombed in 2010 ... Thank y
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Also, don't forget that C++ has _age_ behind it. Lots of places are still on arm-gcc-5 because heaven forbid you try to get a new compiler digesting an old code base, then get all stakeholders and customers onboard. I dream of C++20. B
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
I have no affiliation with CloudFlare at all, but my interactions with them have all been kind, professional, and courteous. I might recommend reaching out to the CEO, Matthew Prince, with a succinct explanation of your problem and I would
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
> This, IMO, is the perfect way to do telemetry. I understand @notRobot's sentiment, but do not agree with it. If the default is "no telemetry", then very little telemetry will be collected. This is an advantage to the use
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
> ... SquirrelMail ... Oh thank you for that trip down memory lane! Ran my own SquirrelMail servers for years ...
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Hooray! Somebody who knows about the different capitalization rules between Québec and France! There are dozens of us! Dozens! ;-)
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
> Young dev from large corp: "Sigh, ok, just saying in 2 years from now we wont be in a good spot". Except in my experience it’s not two years , it’s two months . And I can set up two micro instances with terraform in less th
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by an_d_rew 6y ago
Absolutely. I think it's easy for the HN crowd to inadvertently forget what computers / phones / tablets / TVs look like to ordinary people. I would encourage people to come up with actual use-cases and pro-con scenari
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Another Set of Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates(blogs.sciencemag.org)
1 points by an_d_rew 6y ago|0 comments
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
I second the vote about “Eclipse” being toxic. That is just my personal opinion, and I recognize that tastes differ, but due to years of (bad) experience across multiple domains for a plethora of reasons, I won’t allow and will actively roo
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Face masks for Covid-19: A deep dive into the data(arstechnica.com)
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
That was a great reply! Thank you, @BeetleB!
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Show HN: Covid-19 Projections, Simple Logistic and Exponential Models
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
For me it is that numpy by default will use Intel’s Math Kernel Library for linear algebra, on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It will also use FFTW. That alone makes it very, very worth it.
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Only on HN does one discuss quantum entanglement and self-identify as a “layperson”... at the same time :-)
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Eliminating C++ exceptions makes code 15% faster versus using “noexcept“(twitter.com)
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
One thing to remember is the fear that surrounded the export of cryptographic technology from the US and ITAR and all the rest of it at the time. And then there was the whole key escrow fiasco with Lotus Notes. So just be careful viewing th
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
It is absolutely possible to write amazingly performant Java / JVM applications, and absolutely possible to write horrible blobby slow Go applications. But given most of the standard corporate devs that I've worked with, it is inf
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
The sad thing is that, rather than forward this to the small "decision team" at work, where we can ponder the merits of the author's points... ... I'm going to just close my browser tab due to the puerile ranting at the
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
> I think a lot of people have forgotten what things were like in the early 90's. Thank you for posting this. “Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.”
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
So I've contributed a couple of (tiny!) patches to Zephyr and wrote my own board support / devicetree setup for a custom Cortex-M4F setup that I designed. Zephyr is awesome and the community is awesome, IMHO. Using CLion to manage
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
In addition to the other responses to this post I’ll add the following: I can easily claim a couple days of my time on a side project at work especially if I can show any kind of return for it. But put $10 on the company credit card?! Every
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by an_d_rew 7y ago
Oh my God… “Java is a reasonable choice” and “liberally sprinkling in your code with the print statements is an effective debugging technique“... Oh the pain... my everyday pain...

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