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by fmela 11y ago
The Jeff Dean Facts are worth reading: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts Personal favorite: "Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard, it ended up on another computer."
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Pupy: a remote admin tool with a Python interpreter that leaves no trace on disk(github.com)
1 points by fmela 11y ago|0 comments
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by fmela 11y ago
He also has a PhD, and was part of the team that designed and built it. From the wikipedia page about the helicopter: "The peak power of 1.1 kW (1.5 hp) was only generated during the first few seconds to climb to the required 3-metre (
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by fmela 11y ago
mdfind also has a -name option that allows one to search for the query in the filename rather than contents.
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by fmela 11y ago
Nice to see Facebook acknowledge contributions from Google. It's a departure from typical not-invented-here mentality prevalent at large tech companies.
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by fmela 11y ago
SourceTree also has this functionality.
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by fmela 11y ago
Yeah, despite it's name, lea is an arithmetic instruction; it doesn't reference memory (although it was designed with computing memory addresses in mind). You can do some neat arithmetic tricks with lea, because it computes regist
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by fmela 11y ago
I am surprised to see lea so high on the list. Back when I last wrote x86 assembly code (early 2000s), it was considered slow, but perhaps that has changed.
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by fmela 11y ago
I think of "indices" as the plural of index and "indexes" as a present verb meaning to index (e.g. the "the background process indexes the tables").
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by fmela 11y ago
If one solid ball can be partitioned into two solid balls of equal radius, then can't each of THOSE be partitioned into four solid balls of equal radius, and so on ad infinitum?
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by fmela 11y ago
It's not unheard of for really exceptional devs at big tech companies to make a million or more.
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by fmela 11y ago
Definitely. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_... : In reality, the day bombing was "precision bombing" only in the sense that most bombs fell somewhere near a specific d
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by fmela 11y ago
Yes, but it's the resolution that would suffer, not necessarily the result. For example, if 65% of the population would vote for candidate 1, an unbiased sample of size 10 would indicate that either 60% or 70% of the population would v
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by fmela 11y ago
Yes, of course, I can see that if you have an extremely small sample, then the _resolution_ of your results will suffer. However, I think it's much more important to ensure unbiased sampling than it is to ensure a large sample size. Fo
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by fmela 11y ago
> [F]or any study that requires sampling ... making sure we have enough data to ensure confidence in results is absolutely critical. Is this necessarily true if you can sample from the population in a fair and unbiased way?
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by fmela 11y ago
Great, now we can have a monospace version for the terminal/editor.
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by fmela 11y ago
I own this book, and it is fantastic. There's also HAKMEM[1] and the FXT book[2]. [1]: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html [2]: http://www.jjj.de/fxt/
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by fmela 11y ago
Regarding your first point, the people at https://letsencrypt.org/ are working to address that.
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by fmela 11y ago
Thanks! You made me very glad I came to the comments section.
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by fmela 11y ago
France has also just passed measures giving the government broad powers of surveillance. Of course, they are also trying to provide reassurance that these new powers won't be abused. Haven't we heard this story before? In the col
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by fmela 11y ago
Good read, thanks. Can you comment on further Watson developments since that time?
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by fmela 11y ago
Exactly. The punishment needs to fit the crime. This frankly won't do much to stop companies from engaging in this kind of behavior in the future.
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by fmela 11y ago
As a wise person once told me: people don't get paid what they are worth, they get paid what they can negotiate.
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by fmela 11y ago
> He first had to acquire the chip, designed to be injected into cattle for agricultural uses, from Chinese company Freevision (see images below for their animal products and the sizeable syringe used by Wahle). But the chip, which has j
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by fmela 11y ago
That whole interview is so great.
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by fmela 12y ago
There's also the TLS Cipher Suite Generator [1], for when you need fine-grained control over which ciphers you want to support. [1] http://geoff.greer.fm/ciphersuite/
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by fmela 12y ago
I have the exact same setup with 8GB of RAM, and it's still going strong. I wish I could upgrade to 16GB to extend its life even further.
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Private vs. Public Investment: AppDynamics vs. New Relic(equityzen.com)
1 points by fmela 12y ago|0 comments
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by fmela 12y ago
Don't use list.get() in a loop; that's quadratic for a linked list implementation.
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by fmela 12y ago
The founder of Komodia talks about how their products work (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuTRzFY9CQ

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