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by dfrage 7y ago
Only that, but they did more user or between kernel and user level magic. See the paper The Pauseless GC Algorithm by Cliff Click, Gil Tene, and Michael Wolf at https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/fu
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by dfrage 7y ago
They had a custom user ISA instruction to make write or read barriers cheaper.
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by dfrage 7y ago
> And what's the level of growth possible? Isn't that capped by the level of your senior devs? Senior devs who are good at mentoring also ought to be good at learning new stuff. They'll also be learning some things from t
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by dfrage 7y ago
We have to live in the world as it is, rather than what we'd like it to be. The well reported in this discussion patterns of your boss trying to replace you with your mentee, getting dinged for not getting "real work" done,
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by dfrage 7y ago
As you say, you're in embedded systems, that's well known to be the other US employment domain that's friendly to developers with grey hairs. Not a "conventional" field.
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by dfrage 7y ago
> Bosses daughter did an internship so she got the coding tasks I would have gotten before. In my experience at a couple of places, the moment you learn its a nepotistic environment you should leave as soon as you reasonably manage. As
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by dfrage 7y ago
Maybe you're lucky, or very good a picking companies and having the luxury of doing so , or maybe you just haven't worked in the field long enough, through multiple nasty downturns in the market. I started my career four decades
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by dfrage 7y ago
The bottom line the US is that respect is ultimately measured in dollars. I won't argue there isn't some toxicity to that, but a company that doesn't reward the vastly increased value of its developer employees as they move
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by dfrage 7y ago
In my experience, if you narrow the focus of "you" from the company to you the mentor, "will support you and promote you for the rest of your life" can happen. Although it sounds like a certain amount of delicacy is req
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by dfrage 7y ago
> Sure they were willing to match, but who wants to try and soak blood from a stone. I've never tried it myself, but it's supposed to be common knowledge that perhaps more than half the time a company is forced into granting yo
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by dfrage 7y ago
In my experience, at two developers. You just have to hire a junior capable of significant growth and who starts out at some level above "helpless", which I'll admit is hard. And of course be able to create small bits of wo
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by dfrage 7y ago
That calls for setting clear boundaries, and proactively checking in/interrupting your mentee when it's a good time for you to take a break. I like metrics based on how much time the other person has and expects to waste not being
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by dfrage 7y ago
> that's what my resume says. Which implies it was only valuable to future companies you worked for. Those that actually believe in mentoring, which seems to be rare based on what others are saying and my own experiences.
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by dfrage 7y ago
> There is no trap in working to increase an employee's skills. There's absolutely a trap if the now bigger fish stays in your pond for a while and the even bigger management shark decides you can be replaced by him for much le
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by dfrage 7y ago
And you should expand on this with situation and timing details. In a talent starved startup like the one I was in, mentoring a nearly fresh out of college entry level employee was the only way to get the project completed in the available
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by dfrage 7y ago
> Professional developers achieve job security by doing great work and making themselves replaceable. Wouldn't that be "achieve career security"? Because as I attest upstream in this subthread, in my most notable exampl
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by dfrage 7y ago
> In the real world, there is zero reward for mentoring. In my experience, it can result in a life long friendship, and getting the project to alpha level in time. > Moreover, if you do it, you might get fired and be replaced by the n
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by dfrage 7y ago
Especially when 30 seconds of following links shows the author is almost certainly not a native speaker of English. That the only problem was substituting "at" for "in" should have been a clue.
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by dfrage 7y ago
> but Building 2? Someone wanted to use MACSYMA? As I understand it, they just wanted to be connected to the rest of the world, which their RJE connection to NCARs' supercomputers didn't accomplish.
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by dfrage 7y ago
It was used way beyond the 9th floor of 545 Tech Square. To the west, the longest cable run was to the NW16 Plasma Science and Fusion Center, I think there were only 2 taps on that cable, it was marginal. To the far south the Mathematics
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by dfrage 7y ago
Prior to low cost ride sharing, a good bus system that people will use as an alternative to cars pollutes more because it has to run a lot mostly empty buses to satisfy long tail demand. To the extend low cost ride sharing is a short term u
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by dfrage 8y ago
Exactly the point I was implicitly making. Trying to lump Costco's business model into what Alphabet has always been, but not so visibly to most users, and the goldmine Amazon stumbled upon, is more than a bit misleading. On the other
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by dfrage 8y ago
TL;DR: As you probably know, AWS has become Amazon's massive profit engine, and Alphabet is an advertising company. According to this, if you separate Costco's business into the purely discount retail sales part, and membership fe
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by dfrage 8y ago
The GitHub git cheatsheet link does not work for me, Firefox, Chrome or Chromium. This link would seem to get you to the best version for you https://github.github.com/training-kit/
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by dfrage 8y ago
Patterning is the use of multiple masks to get fine features smaller than the wavelength of light you're using where in previous larger feature nodes one mask sufficed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patter
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by dfrage 8y ago
Please don't downvote this suggestion, for decades Burns' book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380810336/ has been the best self-help guide to applying cognitive therapy, for many including mys
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by dfrage 8y ago
Good illustrated description; to put it in the simplest of terms, the theory is that if you think bad thoughts about yourself, you'll make yourself feel bad, possibly to the point of clinical depression. It turns out that most of the b
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by dfrage 8y ago
We're particularly good at refining heavier, sour crude, but the sharp declines in Mexican and Venezuelan oil production and exports, and pipeline capacity from Canada maxing out has left us with overcapacity for those grades of crude.
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by dfrage 8y ago
HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19573893
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by dfrage 8y ago
Or as the author mentions, Azul's Zulu, which has officially been a supported offering a lot longer than Correto, I've used it for some time without problems. Azul also might have a deeper and stronger talent pool for Hotspot bas

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