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by andrewf 7y ago
It can grow inside babies, which is why you can't feed babies honey.
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by andrewf 7y ago
Your older app may be serializing a lot of work. For instance, it could be issuing 10 SQL queries, one after another, which take 200ms each to answer - that's 2s total just waiting for the database. Compare to a JS client which issues
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by andrewf 7y ago
Part of this is packager fetish for breaking things into the smallest possible components. I used to see the appeal. But I don't see the point in separating libqt5test5 - Qt's unit testing framework - from the rest of Qt, if insta
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by andrewf 8y ago
> Q: What sorts of radical changes can you foresee that would cause the 360 architecture to be supplanted by a new architecture? > A: That’s hard to say. If there is ever a breakthrough in harnessing thousands of micros into an effec
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by andrewf 8y ago
I saw one of the CompuServe PDP-10 clones running at VCF West last year in Mountain View! It's this one on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CvBwt5nfg
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by andrewf 8y ago
Are there detailed writeups of people building these things into their systems? (Something like https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-fast-interpreters-in-ru... but for FPGAs instead of Rust).
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by andrewf 8y ago
You already know how this is going to end. How long do you wish to remain personally involved?
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by andrewf 8y ago
This [1] is a bytecode optimizer for Python - it takes the bytecode from CPython's compiler, and outputs bytecode with a few select optimizations. Anyone know of someone taking this idea further? [1] http://code.activestate.
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by andrewf 8y ago
If anyone still has one of these taking up space, a videogame museum near you would probably welcome the donation.
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by andrewf 8y ago
Borland declined dramatically. https://www.cnet.com/news/borland-a-big-lesson/ reckons Borland peaked at a $7 billion valuation, and they did spend hundreds of millions on campuses and acquisitions in the early 90
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by andrewf 8y ago
Ah, I get it. Thanks.
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by andrewf 8y ago
The first scene in Return of Jedi is literally Vader telling someone: "I am here to put you back on schedule."
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by andrewf 8y ago
And corporate credit cards aren't blank checks. Employees will generally have to pay back any spend on their corporate card that is not approved as an expense. It may prevent the employee from holding the bag if the company goes bust.
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by andrewf 8y ago
the injected DLL has to be written specifically with Detours in mind Does it? I've almost (ie: haven't :P) used Detours but https://github.com/Microsoft/Detours/wiki/OverviewIntercepti... reads
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by andrewf 8y ago
> Get them talking about what things they get emotionally invested in. Yep. I ask something similar and explicitly tell the candidate I'm NOT necessarily after "tell me a time you delivered strong business impact", "t
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by andrewf 8y ago
"challenge, mission, technologies, or quality" It's difficult to optimize this many different things at once. Odds are, when you have multiple opportunities, no single opportunity will be the best in each category. I care abo
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by andrewf 8y ago
In British English, "Europe" can mean the mainland. "The continent" means the same thing. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/europe I've heard this usage in Australia; I
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by andrewf 8y ago
I shipped a commercial app on Qt in the early 00s. The Mac port just never nailed the finer UI details to the same standard as Qt/Windows and Qt/Linux. Qt's customers ended up being the embedded market and phone vendors, I do
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by andrewf 8y ago
My compensation includes company stock. I sell that stock, and some of the proceeds end up in index funds. I do this because I want a diversified portfolio. My employer's stock is up 28% over the last year, S&P 500 is down 6%. I gu
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by andrewf 8y ago
WeWork is a new low. It's not even necessarily the demographics or the chatty beer/coffee scene; their standard fitout couldn't echo more, or block less noise, if they tried. Source: spent over a year in a WeWork, with a desk
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by andrewf 8y ago
I think the hardware was moving forward equally quickly, but there was a more dramatic spread between the low and high end of the installed base. People waited years between upgrades because computers were so expensive. At the same time, Mo
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by andrewf 8y ago
Is it useful to calibrate the software scale in a way that concludes the majority of codebases are "awful" ? What are we usefully communicating with the word, if 90% of codebases qualify? Maybe software development is hard, someti
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by andrewf 8y ago
If Foo1.php, Foo2.php and Foo3.php are all copies of the 1000-line Foo.php, each with a different smattering of bug fixes, each included by a different 10 - 20% of the overall codebase... am I allowed to count all 4 separately?
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by andrewf 8y ago
Go does this for its native map (dictionary) type. https://codereview.appspot.com/7543043
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by andrewf 8y ago
Anyone got a link to printed output produced by WordStar? I used it as a young kid on my Dad's computer. I imagine that most "real" users printed the stuff they wrote, but I've never seen an example!
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by andrewf 9y ago
That'd be an interesting take on Carrier-grade NAT. The approach I'm familiar gives phones a non-routable IPv4 address to get to the carrier's NAT gateway, but I can imagine shenanigans with some combination of 6to4, phone se
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by andrewf 9y ago
US waiters probably don't have time for this.. they're too busy providing good service by running around asking "How's your meal? Everything good?" every 45 seconds. Getting caught in the middle of billing disputes
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by andrewf 9y ago
I read "developed by Apple" as present tense. Dictionaries claim that "developed" is past tense, but there's plenty of Google results for "is developed by". If it wasn't for the passive voice, "d
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by andrewf 9y ago
A tangent: Places I've worked with no source control and "we'll fix it live" often lack reliable backups. A failed hard drive was an existential business risk. I recommend making sure you have a disaster recovery plan in
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by andrewf 9y ago
I think everything else (Blu-Ray, DVD, cable TV) is using the same technique.

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