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by gopalv 12y ago
Neat, looks like JS is getting SIMD speedups because of fixed type objects. Would really love to see the speedup on fixed tuple transforms and convolution algorithms. When I saw JS speed wars originally, I started writing an adobe curve app
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by gopalv 12y ago
This is a lisp engine written in python - RPython, to be precise. It literally compiles the lisp code into python bytecode, which is pretty neat - sort of like clojure is for the JVM. https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
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by gopalv 12y ago
I literally started my career there, spent six and half years and made a lot of friends (I had jobs before yblr) - if any of you worked there, I was the guy with the afro on roller blades. Ten years ago, it was an amazing place to work - gr
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by gopalv 12y ago
I think Edward Bernays goes fairly un-credited in the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Techniques The idea that it is "breakfast meat" is probably his making. https://www.youtub
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by gopalv 12y ago
Frick. A .pl CGI script on a production box? All the yapache & yphp security fixes and is all undone by a a .pl with +ExeCGI. They used to run "crack days" where all of us used to get kicks out of breaking & entering prod,
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by gopalv 12y ago
Future objects are the simplest way to write these workloads because they map directly to a very simple 2-step model 1) I want this, get started 2) I'll check when I need this, then I'll wait This is what I do when I want to order
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by gopalv 12y ago
Variable pay is also paid in bulk at the end of the year. There are people I know who just struggle through to stick around till that pay day, particularly when the winter days are long and painful to get through at work. That works for ret
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by gopalv 12y ago
I would allow that for some definition of "too-big". I wrote a distributed grep impl a few years back to grep my logs and collect output to a central machine (a vague "how may machines had this error" job). The central o
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by gopalv 12y ago
I think Uber got hurt in India because they used a foreign exchange transaction for moving money between a buyer and seller present in India. Money was being moved through USA, to avoid adhering to India's jurisdiction on Credit Card c
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by gopalv 12y ago
The incentives are setup that way. If I were a VC with money from clients with me, telling them that I'm holding out for a good investment is a great way to lose them next year. Money un-invested is stale capital that will definitely n
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by gopalv 12y ago
Ignoring POSIX has its own pains. The only way to maintain sanity is to use an abstraction like libev (or libevent) - when you find a bug, report it upstream and roll your own builds till it gets into CentOS. Like the memcached proxy (Moxi)
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by gopalv 12y ago
> Should engineers get more respect? That's a valid and fair question, and companies will pay more respect ... "You could do worse" is a rough straw-man in these scenarios. I agree to that statement, but the cause of the o
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by gopalv 12y ago
I like the fact that it uses Processing to do this. The right tool for art.
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by gopalv 12y ago
Next I'll be hearing I should chew willow bark instead of paying for Aspirin :) Even if this worked, the amount of misinformation about this has inoculated me against taking medical decisions myself (other than avoiding the free Twix l
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by gopalv 12y ago
I think there is some conflation between "being rich" and "following your passion". Being able to do what you want to do is not some reward at the end of a tunnel. Very unfortunately, you are what you repeatedly do. It i
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by gopalv 12y ago
The issue with psychology is that double blind experiments are prone to observer effect. The behaviour often have nothing to do with reality - when measured, everything tends towards the ideal. And the experiments can often result in the re
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by gopalv 12y ago
This keep coming up again and again. As a PHP perf guy for serveral years, I have some weird questions to ask. Is this an HTTP serving language VM or just a PHP as a language VM? Because I spent years fixing the first part without ever real
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by gopalv 12y ago
Table 5.1 is my favourite graphic from this article. In particular the "23 rotations" and "25 rotations" rows.
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by gopalv 12y ago
Speaking as someone who's hit the barriers of PHP performance for many years, this is a good start. But I wish it was done a little nicely from the community point of view (the >4gb strings stuff). I'm considerably less talente
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by gopalv 12y ago
This uses Esper, right? Esper is awesome all by itself.
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Grill – OLAP cubes for Hadoop(inmobi.github.io)
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by gopalv 12y ago
Neither would be any good, really for better coding. namespace.functionName = function() { } I'm not talking about performance here, but from a sheer maintainability nightmare that JS creates. If you care about this, don't let you
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by gopalv 12y ago
I set that on the laptop actually - android's TTL is 64, so +1 hop is 65. I'm sure they could filter that if I upgraded my phone & the tether got a different gateway host (like in the blog).
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by gopalv 12y ago
I found out that setting the IP TTL of my machine to 65 usually bypasses most tethering checks in most ISPs. Like T-Mobile has a special case where they allow :443 from tethered hosts, while disallowing :80. That disappears when the TTL is
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by gopalv 12y ago
Not to disagree with the decision, but it comes too late (August 2013?) from the actual event to feel like a direct consequence. This reads too much like "bad publicity" related firing, way after the court cases have run their cou
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by gopalv 13y ago
People say music. But I think it's just an exercise in programming yourself - it won't be immediate. http://notmysock.org/blog/2005/Oct/17/ Oh and lots of sleep. I sleep 8 hours or so and wake
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by gopalv 13y ago
Removal of MacOS/Windows junk? Is this going to be an openbsd only fork (I guess linux will get a build of some sort as well).
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by gopalv 13y ago
Is than an if without a brace? I guess heartbleed has replaced gotofail from the pedestal.
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by gopalv 13y ago
Speaking as someone who moved to America on H1B with my wife - this is promising. In the back of my head, I'm preparing to go back next year if my awesome wife can't find anything to do - missed this year's H1 cap already. It
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by gopalv 13y ago
Consistency, that's the usual performance killer. They have got the hadoop watcher right as well as the BTree/SSTable update mechanisms - heavy import, light update is a use-case that is not catered to usually. The rest of it feel

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