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How Apple's '1984' Ad Was Almost Canceled(mentalfloss.com)
1 points by apaprocki 15y ago|0 comments
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by apaprocki 15y ago
No one seems to be commenting about the Stately Manor :) Datacenters come with their own set of interesting problems that are just as much fun to solve as programming puzzles. Thermal imaging goggles to design airflow.. Designing extra redu
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Company doing that now: http://howgood.com
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by apaprocki 15y ago
There is a premium bus service in NYC: http://www.mta.info/nyct/sbs/ The bus lanes have ticket-issuing cameras to ensure they stay free of cars for the buses to speed through. It might not be as fast as a subway on a good day, but at leas
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by apaprocki 15y ago
The latest Economist special report touches on this in Russia, where companies needed to support workers in the middle of nowhere: A visit to the headquarters of Russian Railways can feel a bit like a voyage back in time. The guards
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by apaprocki 15y ago
The compiler with probably the most existing support right now is gcc 4.7. I've been hearing that C++11 may become the standard mode as of 4.8. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/cxx0x_status.html
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Usually it just winds up being a single instruction.
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by apaprocki 15y ago
If you're talking about inputs that aren't arbitrarily huge, you should try measuring performance using alloca instead of malloc.
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Well move semantics were only introduced in C++11. So until C++11 is supported natively everywhere you can't build something like: std::map<std::string, int> without paying for a extra copy of the string on insertion. How man
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Deficiencies in strl aside, most C programmers do not realize the target-padding that is going on with the strn family. Discussion is always good, but it will be much more of an uphill battle to introduce new routines than it would be to ge
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by apaprocki 15y ago
The term, at least to me, does not necessarily refer to storage of large amounts of data. At Bloomberg, we process a large amount of data in realtime. When focusing on the processing of realtime market data, the hardware topology looks diff
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by apaprocki 15y ago
For all the gory details about TC-39 work to possibly get rid of this restriction in ECMAScript and support full Unicode, venture to the TC-39 wiki: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:support_full...
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by apaprocki 15y ago
... and the one feature they don't list: iCloud .vimrc sync!
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Ion Torrent achieves $1000 genome sequencing(reuters.com)
1 points by apaprocki 15y ago|0 comments
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Reimagining the future: New York City(economist.com)
2 points by apaprocki 15y ago|0 comments
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by apaprocki 15y ago
A lot of it has to do with branding, and there are some more minor hardware concerns. The branding aspect comes from seeing an entire trading floor with the branded monitor/keyboard. It is recognizable anywhere you go. The keyboard has spec
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by apaprocki 15y ago
There are many things a browser can do just fine, but there are also many things that the terminal needs to do that would be difficult to do memory or CPU wise without resorting to plugins. Certain things in the terminal use an embedded bro
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Just curious, what is the mashup you're working on? When researching historical places, I've often wished that Google Maps natively supported a 4th dimension so that changes over time could be recorded. Everything from "I want to see the bu
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Pigeons Aren’t Bird-Brained as Study Finds Knowledge of Abstract Numbers(bloomberg.com)
1 points by apaprocki 15y ago|0 comments
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US NRC approves Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor design(thehill.com)
2 points by apaprocki 15y ago|0 comments
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by apaprocki 15y ago
I've recently ordered two additional family member credit cards (two different card processors / companies) and both of them required a SSN# for the additional member. Can anyone claim first-hand knowledge of their credit card company not r
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Do you have references that the list is only checked at purchase time? As for the security hole.. you have a credit card under the assumed name as well? If they were smart they could simply flag first time fliers and anyone who flies under
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Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus(bloomberg.com)
36 points by apaprocki 15y ago|25 comments
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by apaprocki 15y ago
The top IBM POWER7 CPU is clocked at 5ghz and isn't cooled with liquid nitrogen.
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by apaprocki 15y ago
This kind of threaded for-loop processing is precisely what OpenMP is designed to take care of without having to control threads directly from your code. Making sure your code is thread-safe is good practice anyway, and running the for loop
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Yeah I'm pushing this route as well, but unfortunately the "hard to reproduce" part is all of the chip specific optimization. You could imagine that if their optimization phase(s) look nothing like llvm it would be really hard to get them t
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by apaprocki 15y ago
And to make things even more fun, each individual compiler usually comes with baggage it has collected over the years. In xlC alone the -qnamemangling option can be set to: ansi (don't let it fool you), v11, v10, v9, v8, v7, v6, v5, v4, v3,
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by apaprocki 15y ago
The generated code is not compatible and there are other issues. We have some stubs vs dwarf debug information issues with gcc. The code generated by gcc is not as optimized as the vendor supplied compilers. This is if you are telling the c
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Well usually the VM images are completely locked down because they are throwaway. Every time one starts up, it starts up from the master and the master has the original IE8. So even if the VM did allow updates, it would silently create a ne
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by apaprocki 15y ago
Only leaving CC (Oracle), xlC (IBM), aCC (HP) to name a few. I got 99 platforms and x86 is only one. :)

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