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by garenp 12y ago
MSBuild uses Tracker.exe (or Tracker.dll) which depends on Microsoft's Detours IAT hooking library, which works much differently. Sadly it has to be purchased separately.
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by garenp 12y ago
ClearCase has a clearaudit command that can be used to kick off any other arbitrary command and get dependency information (clearaudit /c <foo>). This is much better than using clearmake, because you otherwise depend on a users
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by garenp 12y ago
I can totally believe that account. The people at Goldman were probably totally sincere in their belief that he had "stolen" their magic sauce when talking to the FBI. These are presumably the same kind of people that think anyth
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by garenp 12y ago
Humor aside, it really concerns me that so much of the information in mainstream science news articles can mislead readers. More worrying is that it's often not possible to persuade someone who is swayed in the wrong direction, because
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by garenp 12y ago
FWIW, I'd probably put myself in the same category the OP writes about. I hit a wall in calculus 2 in University, because previously I had been able to rely on simply showing up and not putting in much effort to still do "pretty g
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by garenp 12y ago
A given "feature" does not behave identically on different CPUs. To generate optimal code, you need to know which model is being targeted to make codegen decisions. It is simply not reasonable to expect Intel to do the work on t
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by garenp 12y ago
So they should just then believe what another third-party vendor CPU says, and ship the compiler and hope for the best? Not what I would do. I would only enable specific optimizations when I could guarantee the output would be optimal or a
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by garenp 12y ago
Not generating model-specific code for a processor that doesn't match your CPUID table is hardly what I'd call "sabotaging."
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by garenp 12y ago
"Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel" Right, because Intel should spend their finite resources buying every imaginable Intel
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by garenp 12y ago
Become a manager. :)
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by garenp 13y ago
Probably referring to this: http://blog.jooq.org/2013/08/24/mit-prof-michael-stonebraker...
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by garenp 13y ago
Your spidey senses probably just need to first think "non-native English speaker?" :)
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by garenp 13y ago
Which library is that? Truly curious.
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by garenp 13y ago
It's striking to me that I've never seen or heard of a performance review process that allows for employees to provide feedback on how well their manager is doing. Sometimes a manager is just not a good fit for the group that the
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by garenp 13y ago
The problem with setting very concrete goals like this, is that whenever you don't precisely meet them, they can be made to be a knock against you. As a result, it's then in your interest to set goals that are as easy to achieve
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by garenp 13y ago
It's pretty notable, given that Adobe is a fairly large and well known company that is dropping performance reviews altogether.
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by garenp 13y ago
Yeah, of course I'm aware, it's just that there is a time/space trade-off, so I think folks who argue that goto should never be used or has no legitimate uses, are just taking too much of a hard-line. And I think it just high
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by garenp 13y ago
In performance critical nested loops, goto is the only way to exit early. A typical example here is performing a matrix multiply. In cases like this, it is absolutely necessary, because C doesn't provide a more granular 'break&#
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by garenp 13y ago
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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by garenp 13y ago
He was stuck in the transit area while waiting for a connecting flight, when the U.S. revoked his passport. Not much else to do but stay there.
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by garenp 13y ago
I'd like to see them automatically versioned and the "right" one selected at load time somehow. .NET can do it with assemblies, and it's a great idea.
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by garenp 13y ago
So as soon as you looked solemn/depressed on a regular basis, people started flocking to you? :)
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by garenp 13y ago
800MB is for the old GIN index, the new experimental one is 350MB, and has not yet undergone more space optimizations. They are also not really comparable: Mongo only indexes a few select keys, whereas the new GIN index does many.
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by garenp 13y ago
Look at some of the linked PDFs. It's the indexing technique and on-disk format that is an enabler for several notable use cases; personally, I'm looking forward to a time when I can use pg for full-text search without having to
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by garenp 13y ago
If you're using NFS, CIFS or smbfs to host or synchronize repo data, You're Gonna Have A Bad Time (YGHABT?) regardless of which VCS you're using - it's only a matter of time.
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by garenp 13y ago
Facebook tried to use git but ran into some scalability limits due to gits design (frequent index updates), whereas mercurial is append-only and doesn't have this problem. Hence, facebook has some legitimate technical reasons to not u
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by garenp 13y ago
Totally agree with the first point in particular. The only reason I started using git is because it's required for github. Otherwise I'd use Mercurial exclusively.
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by garenp 13y ago
In my experience, the Packt books have always felt as though they have had very little editing and review (things you'd never see in a technical book from e.g. Addison Wesley or Prentice Hall). So if the book seems great it's prob
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by garenp 13y ago
PostgreSQL
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by garenp 13y ago
Very nice. I always wished there was a nice way to write natural looking math via IRC--that was still readable in text form--with some kind of whiteboard looking interface for DCC chats that looked pretty.

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