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by bitcharmer 9y ago
The way things are going I'm expecting to see the same initiative in the UK or Germany sooner than you think. That will stop them evil terrorists.
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by bitcharmer 9y ago
Sadly this scenario is not uncommon even among bigger employers. I was with a big investment bank abroad when after a few rounds of redundancies that I somehow managed to survive over the few months I was with them, we were finally told th
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by bitcharmer 9y ago
I already admitted my respect for her as a professional. There is nothing negative in what she does. I'm just stating a fact - if you want more details you need to turn to people who she sources from. What is bad about it?
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by bitcharmer 9y ago
I'm surprised Brendan Gregg hasn't been mentioned here yet. He's the Linux tracing/profiling god. http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html Don't get me wrong, I respect Julia Evans as a profession
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
I've recently switched from Sublime Text to Atom. I've used Sublime for a few years and was very unimpressed when I first installed Atom 2 years ago. For a long time it remained slow and clunky, but recently not only did they impr
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
The world of The Geek is claustrophobic, no? Not surprised to see you here too. Also, hope you will find this material entertaining.
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OS jitter analysis for the masses(bitcharmer.blogspot.com)
3 points by bitcharmer 10y ago|3 comments
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
This has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102 I don't even bother replying to their recruiters any more. The interview process tells me more than enough about the company.
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
I'm really baffled by the media willingness to replace the terms 'immigrants' with 'refugees' or 'illegal' with 'undocumented'. Scandinavian countries are well know for their permissive, liberal
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
Few years ago I witnessed a traffic accident in which a 16yo boy riding a motorcycle died. I was the first to get to him trying to assess his condition and help. Those were his last moments. There was a lot of blood and I was helpless. I d
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
I'm surprised the warmup problem in Java hasn't been invoked here yet. Java has bootstrap and warm-up overhead which for comparisons like this one may have a decisive impact on the perceived results. What will happen is (after the
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
Same story here. Had to replace my 4yo Dell. I suggest you look at XPS 15 or Precision 5520. Extremely good value for money (and you can get them with quite beefed up specs)
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
I stopped reading after "Gartner says...". Their predictions have a terrible track record and I am genuinely amazed by how much attention they are still getting. http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-does-the-it-in
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by bitcharmer 10y ago
This is simple binary packing approach to storing small-type data in wider types. Delta compression is a natural next step from here. I once published a blog post on that topic: http://bitcharmer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12&